While teachers cannot control standardized testing, they can control assessment in the classroom. Under IDEA 2004 Nondiscriminatory Assessment, it discusses how each student needs to be tested in the language that they are most familiar with. One example would be when a student is shown a picture of a particular object. The student may have a nonstandardized English, yet still correct and in accordance with their dialect. The student would get the answer wrong and it would impact their academic progress, even though they understand the concept. Each student should be able to understand the directions and the questions on each test and assessment that they are …show more content…
Every teacher should prepare their students to feel confident to enter the real world. By doing this, they should teach the students so that they can be bilingual and bidialectual. They should also teach their students the importance of diversity and that how they speak does not at all equal what they are saying. Teachers should teach students to become adults who hire people based on how well they will do in the job, not how they sound. By teaching tolerance and, much more importantly, acceptance, students can grow up to eliminate and close the gap and the misconceptions of language and