Entry 3: Interview an ELL teacher
Hey everyone! Thank you for coming back to my third vlog post titled "interview an ELL teacher." I was so pleased to have interviewed Ms. Flores who is a fourth grade teacher in HISD. She has been teaching for the past five years and has truly enjoyed working with all of her students. Although the two main languages in her classroom are Spanish and Vietnamese, she is only confident in her conversational Spanish. She shared that she provides as many resources as she can for her ELLs because she believes when students feel comfortable and supported, they learn best. This is most supported in the text, when it is stated that "primary language support, when provided properly, can maximize ELLs' comprehension of English-language instruction and thus help the students acquire English more quickly and effectively." (Wright, 2015, p. 284). As she had also stated with the computer usage in the classroom, there are computer software and internet resources that provide ...