http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Y0HAjLKYI
I'm not sure exactly how it happened, but I spent almost the entirety of my 6 years teaching math in low-income, rural Colorado school districts without having students who didn't speak English fluently. (I've come to wonder if there wasn't something Latino immigrants found unwelcoming about the communities I lived in that I never recognized.) This great 12-minute film is way to imagine the difficulty of being an English language learner in an English immersion classroom and leaves me wondering what I'd do if I were Moises's teacher.
I'm not sure exactly how it happened, but I spent almost the entirety of my 6 years teaching math in low-income, rural Colorado school districts without having students who didn't speak English fluently. (I've come to wonder if there wasn't something Latino immigrants found unwelcoming about the communities I lived in that I never recognized.) This great 12-minute film is way to imagine the difficulty of being an English language learner in an English immersion classroom and leaves me wondering what I'd do if I were Moises's teacher.