Over the past few weeks I have gotten a better understanding of who Joel and Shaundrielys are as readers and students in general. For Joel, since he is in kindergarten he has not fully learned the alphabet. He is able to sing the song and figure out the letters, but struggles to know a letter when asked at random. I feel that as communication goes he does very well. He is always eager to talk and is most of the time engaged. However, sometimes when I would ask him what a letter is he would start to say the letter, as if it was on the tip of his tongue, and then pause and finally say a random letter. I can tell that he does know the letters, but when it comes to showing me he knows them he sometimes will just goof around. So when trying to
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In this book she wrote, “It is possible and desirable to make the actual study of language diversity a part of the curriculum for all students” (Delpit 1998). This idea reflects my experience because Seymour is a dual language school that fosters to both English and Spanish speakers. Therefore this quote is pretty much the philosophy of this school. They believe that if a child speaks two languages that their education should reflect that. When it comes to me helping the students we do not really focus on Spanish, but occasionally Joel will tell me a letter in Spanish instead of English. That does prove that he is understanding the letters in both languages yet, he just does not always know when the time is right to use which language. Overall with both of the students I feel that they are benefiting greatly from the dual language education. As Delpit talked about that this curriculum is very desired so the fact that this school is able to give this opportunity to its students is highly beneficial. I feel that not all of the students would be reached if it were not for this dual language education because English may be the dominant language in some households, but it is definitely not in all households. Therefore this opportunity continues to help foster an education directed for these
In this book she wrote, “It is possible and desirable to make the actual study of language diversity a part of the curriculum for all students” (Delpit 1998). This idea reflects my experience because Seymour is a dual language school that fosters to both English and Spanish speakers. Therefore this quote is pretty much the philosophy of this school. They believe that if a child speaks two languages that their education should reflect that. When it comes to me helping the students we do not really focus on Spanish, but occasionally Joel will tell me a letter in Spanish instead of English. That does prove that he is understanding the letters in both languages yet, he just does not always know when the time is right to use which language. Overall with both of the students I feel that they are benefiting greatly from the dual language education. As Delpit talked about that this curriculum is very desired so the fact that this school is able to give this opportunity to its students is highly beneficial. I feel that not all of the students would be reached if it were not for this dual language education because English may be the dominant language in some households, but it is definitely not in all households. Therefore this opportunity continues to help foster an education directed for these