The teacher is responsive to the linguistic, ethnic, and sociocultural characteristics of the students by giving them numerous ways to get the correct answers. For example, I know that when we are reading with the children we ask them to read us the word but we also ask them to put it in a sentence and at some times write the word. By doing this I feel that even if a student does not know how to read they word if they know what it means they will be successful when putting it in a sentence or writing it. This makes the student feel like they are accomplishing something rather than just asking the student to read the word on the card and when they don't know it they shut down and feel embarrassed. Also I noticed that the teacher has a routine that the students follow such as reading aloud vowel sounds, the days of the week, and counting how many days are left in school. This type of organization may help people of different linguistic, ethnic, and sociocultural backgrounds feel more comfortable since the entire class is following the same process and directions.
Some of my students have an accent but for the most part they speak English very well. If I see that the student is having trouble pronouncing a word because of their accent I will say it for them slowly and they will repeat it the way I said it. I have run into some trouble with a student who has had a rough upbringing. His upbringing causes him to act like a class clown and not listen. I try to keep him always busy with something and ask him questions frequently to try to keep him on task. Overall, I am having great success with my reading buddy activity and plan to finish up shortly.
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Eddy-
ReplyDeleteI can relate to your issue about the child who misbehaves because of his upbringing. A lot of students in my classroom previously attended a Christan school but came to E.W. Flynn because they could no longer afford the tuition. When they see the other students misbehave because of their rough upbringing, they see it as an excuse to act up as well. Aside from peer influnce, it seems that they are behaving this way to make up for time when they couldn't misbehave in the Christan school. You do a great job keeping the attention of this child and it seems like you are really benefitting these kids!