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VBlog #2: Teacher Interview

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 Hello CUIN 4361 Class!                For my interview, I decided to interview one of the teachers at my school placement. Ms. Machado is a fourth-year teacher and is currently teaching first grade. She admires teaching children because not only is she able to make a positive impact on their lives but also see their growth progress throughout the year.               Ms. Machado is very familiar with working with ELL students in her classroom. She loves the journey of teaching ELL students because she can watch them grow over the year. She does say that when working with ELL students some challenges arise in the process of teaching them. Some of these challenges that she states that she faces with ELL students are culturally in terms of the dynamics that the student is used to from their home as compared to being at school, socially in being able to recognize and notice things and academically in t...
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VBLOG ENTRY 1: INTRODUCTION

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Hello CUIN 4361 Class! My name is Ivonne Cardenas and I am a senior at the University of Houston. I am graduating this Spring with my Bachelors of Science in Teaching & Learning with certification to teach EC-6 Generalist/Special Education Supplemental/ESL Supplemental. I am counting the days until Graduation that's how excited I am. As I mentioned in my video, I grew up in a household where Spanish was the only language that was spoken. My parents were from Mexico, so the language that they knew and were familiar with was Spanish. Because of this, my siblings and I only spoke Spanish in our household because that was the only language that we were exposed to in communicating. My experience entering school was definitely challenging. It was very difficult in the beginning because I had never been exposed to any other language other than Spanish, so entering school and finding out that English was the language that was being used, had me frightened and uncomfortable. I remember ...
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