Entry 3
For my interview, I interviewed Mrs. Dunn who is a teacher at Birkes Elementary. She currently has a class with 10 ELLs. The first question I asked her was, what methods or strategies does she use in the classroom? She talked me about how she uses a lot of pre-teaching. By pre-teaching she meant that if she is going to be using certain words in a lesson the following day, she will introduce them to the students. In a small group she goes over the terms and their meanings, so that during the lesson they are not stuck trying to understand due to one word. In her classroom she has a diverse group of ELLs, so she has to use a lot of pictures. Two of them can read in their native language so she also uses their language to help them. For the students that cannot read in their native language she has an app on her phone that speaks the translation for them. Wright (2015, pg. 17) mentioned in the text that “knowing the student’s home language or languages allows the teacher to provide p...
