Vlog #3

Hello!

Welcome back everyone, for this blog I interviewed a friend of mine who is a kindergarten teacher at Clearlake ISD. She has been teaching now for 5 years and loves it. I liked getting to interview a ESL teacher because I am considering becoming one and now I have more background knowledge. Ms. Martinez gave a lot of great answers. I love how she mention to use gesture and visual when communicating with the students I think that is great because visual are a key for almost everyone to understand. Ms. Martinez also mention how she loves getting to work with ESL students to take on the challenge and getting to know each and every one of her students According to Wright it is important for understand your students. “It is important for teachers to understand the students cultural background and how their culture influence their learning” (2017,p.17) Ms. Martinez did mention that it was important for you to understand your students that way you know how to make them successful in the classroom. This is one major thing she liked about teaching ESL students is receiving the great feeling after as you see them grow into great English learners.

Hope you enjoy the video!

https://youtu.be/26XuhZifJ38

Entry 2: Interview with an previous ELL student in the public school system

Hello everyone! For blog entry number 2 I interviewed a second language learner who is now 24 years old. Throughout the interview I asked her many question based on learning a second language in the public school system. She explained to me in the best way that she remembered. Based on her answers and according to Wright (2015) she would be known as a U.S.-born ELLs (p.10). This is because she was born here in the united states but was placed in a ESL class in the public school system. She states that she was placed in ESL class till about the third grade. She said she does not remember struggling too much to learn English, which to my opinion is a great advantage because many children tend to lack academically since they are having to learn another language. Also, she was still speaking her first language at home because her parents could not speak English nor were they able to help with homework. She had an older brother in the public school system, so he would help her at times with her homework so she was thankful for that.

At her school she was very grateful to have a teacher who made sure she understood the content before something else was taught. According to Wright “The most important and beneficial listening and speaking that students will do is through interaction with the teacher...” (pg. 170) Which I told her that was an advantage to her learning English which is why she did not struggle to learn it, since she had a great resource of learning. Some teachers do not take the time to help ESL learners understand and can even excluded them from activities thinking they are more of a problem to the class. Which in my opinion is absolutely terrible, no one should be denied education due to any circumstance.

Wright, Wayne. Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners: Research, Theory, Policy, and Practice. Philadelphia, PA: Caslon, 2015. Print. Second Edition


https://youtu.be/hMcZ0mewCEI

Thanks for watching!

Intro

Hello my name is Elyse, I am a senior at the University of Houston. I am student teaching a kindergarten class in cyfair ISD. I am very excited for this year and the learning experience. I want to welcome you all to my blog and wish you the best of luck this year! :)

https://youtu.be/r-mlEXL3pnI