Blog #8

 Good Afternoon and welcome back to my blog!

        Today we read "Aria" and I'm going to explain and connect the reading to my classroom placement I am in currently. This reading was about a student struggling to communicate because of how limited his communication was because English was his second language. Unfortunately the student needed to have a student-teacher conference, where the teacher explained to the parents that in order to have a full education, the parents had to start speaking English. This hurt the parents feelings because they took the teachers words as forgetting the entire Spanish speaking lifestyle and everyday the distance between her and parents grew. Her parents did not speak/understand English and the student (Aria) was forced to completely understand English. The silence was very loud in her house hold.

    Reading this opened my eyes as a future teacher. In my classroom, my teacher has been educating for more than 15 years and does her certificate to teacher ESL (English Second Language), she does not apply it to her classroom. I have never seen her teach in Spanish and as well as I have never seen her hinder away from any Spanish speaking student as there are a couple in my classroom. They mostly communicate with each other (student to student). Hopefully I see some Spanish communication between the students and teacher just so I can expose myself to difference experience! In my classroom I will make sure every culture and language is respected and highlighted. 

Thank you for reading !

Emily Medeiros.

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Audrey P said…
I enjoyed reading your thoughts.
April 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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