VBlog #2: Teacher Interview
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...