When instructing Emergent Bilinguals, we talked about how challenging academic work that promotes deep disciplinary knowledge and encourage higher level thinking is the key to success. Having these emerging bilinguals practice complex thinking, helps them learn deeper about the information and encode the details they are taught. Social justice refers to recognizing and acting upon the potential we have for making positive changes, something teachers do every day. One way teachers can be considered social justice teachers is through not privileging or disadvantaging specific students based on the group they identify with. Ms. Bandura certainly does not leave out or focus on the students based on their cultures. It is also recommended that
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For example, stereotypes are one. The number one factor associated with emergent bilingual’s abilities to develop their language and literacy abilities is the common disbelief that if you live in America you should speak English. Although English is the number one language in America, not all Americans are fluent in English. Having this stereotype on their shoulders may negatively impact student’s affective filters. When a student’s affective filter is negatively impacted, they are less likely to encode the information they are taught. It is important that there is a healthy environment surrounding learners. With English Language Learners, the pressure of learning English is …show more content…
Since this school is a majority of Spanish students, I feel that having more focus on the different cultural aspects of the student’s lives will engage the students and the student’s families much more.
3. For assessment instruction, I recommend that the tests should be much less direct from the study guides and textbooks. I feel as though the only indicator of student’s processing the knowledge, is if they are able to make inferences and connections with their learning
4. Since Visitation is a Catholic School and church is separate from state, they do not have to follow all of the same laws as public schools. When it comes to teacher qualifications, not all of the teachers at Visitation have passed all of their state exams. I recommend that Visitation considers this when hiring faculty and that passing state exams should be a requirement for the hiring process.
5. I also recommend that the teachers use technology more in their curriculum design. Each hallway has a cart of IPads that the teachers can use and most of the classrooms have Smart Boards. However, between the two third grade classrooms, I have barely seen either of these sources of technology used. Technology is becoming so apparent in our society, so if the resources are available (which they are), they should be used as frequently as
For example, stereotypes are one. The number one factor associated with emergent bilingual’s abilities to develop their language and literacy abilities is the common disbelief that if you live in America you should speak English. Although English is the number one language in America, not all Americans are fluent in English. Having this stereotype on their shoulders may negatively impact student’s affective filters. When a student’s affective filter is negatively impacted, they are less likely to encode the information they are taught. It is important that there is a healthy environment surrounding learners. With English Language Learners, the pressure of learning English is …show more content…
Since this school is a majority of Spanish students, I feel that having more focus on the different cultural aspects of the student’s lives will engage the students and the student’s families much more.
3. For assessment instruction, I recommend that the tests should be much less direct from the study guides and textbooks. I feel as though the only indicator of student’s processing the knowledge, is if they are able to make inferences and connections with their learning
4. Since Visitation is a Catholic School and church is separate from state, they do not have to follow all of the same laws as public schools. When it comes to teacher qualifications, not all of the teachers at Visitation have passed all of their state exams. I recommend that Visitation considers this when hiring faculty and that passing state exams should be a requirement for the hiring process.
5. I also recommend that the teachers use technology more in their curriculum design. Each hallway has a cart of IPads that the teachers can use and most of the classrooms have Smart Boards. However, between the two third grade classrooms, I have barely seen either of these sources of technology used. Technology is becoming so apparent in our society, so if the resources are available (which they are), they should be used as frequently as