- What do you Think?? REFLECT: Strategies 9-12 (14:39 - 20:30) have a common thread around respecting and honoring a student. Gonzalez cites, “They’re doing twice the job of everybody else in the class, even though the result looks like half as much.” What do you think? This is true for every multilingual/bilingual student that sits in a classroom. Not only are they translating in their heads/paper, they trying to grasp new concepts and information they might already have in their home language.
- Now What?? From the 12 strategies Gonzalez offers, which do you already use consciously? What are the results? Are there any strategies that you connect with and plan to use? How will you know if you are successful? Please explain. As an ENL teacher, I am constantly using visuals, sentence frames, and translation. I also collaborate with other ENL teachers and co-teachers to make the best learning plan for students. To assess and make sure they were successful we can provide both formative and summative assessments.
