I can’t even imagine how these students feel. To be placed in a school where sometimes no one understands them. In my school I have not worked with an ELL student. But when and if that opportunity comes up I know these strategies will be very important. I do not have the knowledge of different cultural backgrounds that I wish I had. I most definitely take into consideration different religions practices and know how important it is to help make others understand we are all different and educating ourselves is the first step to bringing us closer. Being part of the situation in the future I will work on making others not take themselves so serious. I tend to help lighten things up with humor. But also know where the fine line is between humor and humility. That is where the knowledge of their background from strategy 9 comes into play. I know I can do a good job with this although it makes me sad to think that they might not get all that I am trying to teach them. Luckily in my specialty visual learning comes in handy and is not always about the words.
