Post 3- Interview with ESL Teacher
Welcome to my blog. Click here to view my interview! For my 3rd vblog I decided to interview my mentor teacher, Rosy Patel. Mrs. Patel is a first-grade teacher, she has been teaching in a public-school for around 10 years. Apart from being a teacher who has taught many English language learners she is also ESL certified, and bilingual herself. One of the things that Mrs. Patel mentions is that most ELL tend to have a hard time processing English at a fast rate and therefor struggle when reading in English. She even mentions that often she feels like students try to translate English words to their native language which of course would take quite a bit of time. Not only does it take a long time, but it also can create misconceptions. As I have seen first-hand, and later adopted from my time in Mrs. Patel’s classroom, she was able to recognize these patters by observing her students and taking n...