Chapter 8

This chapter confronts an important issue that teachers everywhere in America face at some point in their profession. They have to teach a student that is not fluent in English. This can cause a lot of problems for the teacher and for the student. The best way to help someone in this situation it to first learn cool stuff about them like where they are from, what they do for fun, what they like, and so on. This will give you an insight on how to teach the lesson so that the student can understand it. Chances are that if you can teach it to someone that doesn’t speak fluent English then your English speaking students will pick it up quickly and that is an assumption that I am willing to make. Give them homework that they can do and don’t just think that they can be held responsible for the same things that English speaking students can do. Give them something that is a little challenging for them even if your students already know how to do it. Since I don’t have any of those types of students in my class at Madison I can’t really give an example other than the information that I gather from the book. This chapter will save me someday because I know that I will have a student that doesn’t speak English and I will know how to teach them based on the content in this chapter. This chapter is awesome!