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 absolutely true. ENL students are always translating, truly doing twice the amount of work. This year we had a faculty meeting where we heard directly from a member of our faculty who was an ENL student. She explained how she was the translator of her household and took on many responsibilities of an adult as a young child. She was making phone calls to doctors for her family and translating constantly. She most definitely was doing twice the amount of work and not many of her peers, and teachers new that she was taking the responsibility of an adult.
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. I use visuals always to allow students to make connections and help students interpret directions and assignments. Using visuals help students to make connections and deeper their understanding.
