V-Blog #2
Link to Interview: https://youtu.be/l5VpZZq0700?feature=shared
Today I interviewed Justin, a family friend who is a teacher in the public school system. He has had experience working with a wide range of students, including English Language Learners. He chose not to be pictured in the interview video but I was very grateful for the opportunity to be able to talk with him. Throughout the interview, I had the opportunity to ask various questions on his experience with English Language Learners and I was able to take away meaningful information from his answers.
One of the most impactful parts of the interview to me was hearing how he builds strong relationships with his students and their families. I love how he talked about creating a culturally responsive classroom and using students' background as an advantage when teaching. He talked about providing strategies such as visual aids, sentence stems, and cooperative learning to help students feel included and confident in their learning. I personally have seen these strategies work with the English Language Learners in my student teaching classroom.
Justin also talked about how rewarding it is to see students gain confidence in their language skills and grow academically and socially. The whole interview made me reflect on my own future classroom and reminded me of the impact that teachers can have when a safe, welcoming space is provided for all types of learners. Overall, the interview gave me valuable insight into what it takes to effectively support English Language Learners, and it strengthened my commitment to becoming an inclusive and supportive teacher.
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ReplyDeleteJustin is great for how he builds strong relationships with his students and their families. I love how you said he implements students cultural background into instruction, this is a strategy for engagement and participation. Students background also play a huge role in teaching and learning. In all students have to have some basic understanding of English at some point in time in the education field so as a teacher using cultural responsive strategies are important. Using visuals, sentence stems and collaboration will promote students to get active in their learning
ReplyDeleteHi! I agree students backgrounds play a huge role in teaching! Utilizing students background as an advantage as teachers can help us create instruction that students relate to.
DeleteHi Ashley!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your interview! It is interesting to hear this topic from an experienced teacher within the program. I strongly believe being able to hear this from a teacher's perspective helps us as future educators help to tailor lessons to better support ELLs within the classroom and better understand the amount of impact one can make. As ELLs gain this kind of support it is noticeably incredible to how students can thrive academically and become confident within themselves. Very insightful! Thank you!