Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: SPEAK ENGLISH! I am a Kindergarden teacher that has a big group of hispanic students in the classroom. Many of them do not know how to speak English and thus makes it very complicated and frustrating to communicate. What is even worse, is that these students tend to speak Spanish when they are amongst themselves. Clearly, as a teacher I want them to be able to Participate, however, I am not sure whether or not I should separate them and forcé them to leave their native tongue at home. Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) You are in a very complicated situation. What I would recommend doing is to split the time between what groups both sets of students work with. Have the Spanish speaking students work with the non-Spanish speaking students for some lessons and then let the Spanish speaking students work together some as well. You do not want to just jump into splitting them up. You risk overwhelming all the students in the group or further alienating both groups since they can not communicate well each other all the time. The hope is to eventually allow both groups of students to work well enough with each other that you do not have to keep splitting both groups up.                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: Speaking from experience, it'll work out. Children are like sponges, they take in so much information and before you know it, they'll be speaking English faster than you thought. Rated On: October 20, 2019 11:43 pm Rated By: ygyXeT