2015 Hume Teachers ' Scholarship Nomination - Open Category

By providing different learning experiences in the curriculum teachers will be able to meet the needs of each student’s learning style. For ELL students, New Caney Elementary offers Bilingual programs dedicated to teach both languages, Spanish and English, that will essentially allow ELL students to learn the language. Programs like these were created to help students to thrive academically no matter their circumstance. To assess students at all times, one as a future educator must ensure that we are assessing the students in each lesson plan. The teacher must ensure that each student is grasping the content presented to them by monitoring their gained knowledge. In order implement the units from the curriculum, I will strive to provide various learning experiences to each student. I will provide visual activities for my visual learners, have hands on activities for my hands-on learning students, and provide discussions for the ones that learn through hearing and repeating things out loud. Each learning experience is crucial to the student’s academic success. By providing different types of learning experiences I will be able to make the lessons more effective and

Many of their learning needs are similar to those of other children and young people learning in our schools. However, these learners also have distinct and different needs from other learners by virtue of the fact that they are learning in and through another language, and that they come from cultural backgrounds and communities with different understandings and expectations of education, language and learning”. (NALDIC, 1999).

When an educator walks into her classroom for the first time, she needs to be prepared to encounter students that come from a variety of backgrounds. The children will be in different stages of language development, and the educator must accommodate for each of these students. Magruder, Hayslip, Espinosa, and Matera (2013) state, “The US Census Bureau projects that by the 2030s, children whose home language is other than English will increase from roughly 22 percent to 40 percent of the school-age population” (p. 9). This increase in second language learners will cause the educator to accommodate for those needs. Second language learners “need teachers who welcome them and recognize their unique abilities, what they know, and what they need to learn” (Magruder, Hayslip, Espinosa, and Matera, 2013, p. 10).

There is an ancient Chinese proverb, that goes by “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”. Today, I would like to discuss my cousin, Stephanie Lam, who went to Taiwan one summer to teach English in a two week enrichment program. Her students, ranging from 12 to 17-year-olds, came from low-income families around Taiwan, seeking help in learning English, as they do not normally have the proper resources to do so. Though the language barrier was a formidable obstacle, Stephanie bonded with her students and other teachers, and greatly improved their English proficiency. Now, thanks to her, they understand a new language even better than they did before, and therefore have access to

Our discussion began with her giving us an overview of the services that she provides. For first grade students, she pushes into classes and help teachers to conduct lessons. From what she told us these seemed to be SIOP modeled lessons that benefit not only the English language learners in the class but all the students. For other grade levels, she also conducts pull out groups where she gives small group instruction. Within these small groups, she uses the materials that her students already encounter in their general education classrooms and tries to make them more understandable. I thought that this was important because I feel that the goal of ELL instruction is to help students to become more independent and it would be

After so many incidents, I was determined to learn this foreign language and prove to people that I wasn’t not lost in this country. Every day afterschool I would ask my family to help me with my English. One year later, I was able to understand what people around me were saying, and I could do basic communications with people. School came to me as an enjoying part of my day, something I looked forward to when going to bed, and an opportunity, a gift for me to learn the language of this new country.

It is my pleasure to nominate Rodnesha Minor for North Carolina A & T State University’s Student Teacher of the Year. Ms. Minor exemplifies the tenets of the North Carolina Teaching Standards. I have watched Ms. Minor develop into an accomplished preservice teacher during her time at Summerfield Elementary.

Nurture positive qualities, such as empathy, optimism, or forgiveness, and give students a chance to use them.

There were many take-a-ways that I encountered through this shadow. There were many students that had learning disabilities and even students that English is their second language. I was able to watch how these students learned through a teacher helper. This stood out to me because in most schools when a student doesn’t know English or is struggling with a certain topic of area they learn the material in a different classroom rather than in the normal classroom. I thought that this was very interested how they implemented this into the classroom setting. There was an interpreter in the classroom and there were six students that could not speak English. They sat in a group while the teacher continued as normal and the interpreter would translate. I thought that this school in particular does a very good job at including and teaching for students that need extra help or

The Valerie’s story represents the life of many immigrants who travel to others country in order to have a better life. Immigrant like Valerie face many challenging because of the language and low economic situation that forces them to work. Her story show how learning English is independent learning and how she expand their literacy skills by reading literature that show the value of her life . The story of Valerie indeed impressive . However, it is important to recognize that it is the case in many classrooms across America. The learning environment is the USA is far from the ideal , and there are many reforms to be implemented to increase the standards of the education and to ensure that everyone has the same opportunities regardless of

I would also like to consider Hannah Chapman for the one-time bonus opportunity. Once the details of this year’s process are formalized, I would be honored to write a nomination in support of Hannah and her excellent work.

Living in Europe was a dream of Burke and Anna’s. An opportunity in 2011 to teach young children in Hungary to speak English was just what they needed to pack their bags and move to Hungary for 6 months. They became volunteer teachers for local schools in Hungary. Burke and Anna taught children of all different ages.

The moment I learn how to read and write in English, it changes my life. I was scared and inexperienced to learn new languages. I didn’t realize that learning new languages would be as important as I move on to become young adults. I was hardly to learn English since I was in third grade even though my elementary school taught English as a part of the course. But, that didn’t stop me from believing that I could learn how to read and write in English. It turns out, an important part of my learning how to read and write is never give up.

The learner I have chosen has a general level of education from her native country, having attended nursery, primary and secondary schools. In her period of education in secondary school, she managed studied the English language for approximately 5 years.

A tutor can also be very helpful to its students when it comes to overcoming those language obstacles. By judging of the state of its student, a tutor has the freedom to choose which of the above mentioned suggestions will be used during the overcoming process. Although there may not be a classroom of students to whom the tutor is teaching, the one-on-one environment allows a greater sense of intimacy and a safer atmosphere (Leigh, 2009).