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!) I believe pictures help EVERYTHING in kindergarten! I taught at a school that had a large population of Hispanics, at this point in the year we are trying to learn letters and letter sounds. It does help when parents are on board with a teacher's expectations. At the school I worked at with a large population we were able to have a translator at all meetings. This allows the parents to understand the expectaitons and to relay the information and expectations to the child. We as teachers, want to promote their background and culture and at the same time integrate standards to allow these children to meet or exceed by the end of the year. Having the children work with cchildren whose native language is English, but not forcing them to use their native language. Speaking to the children and having them understand that in the classroom to provide our own thoughts and ideas, English would need to be the language of choice. During stations or working with their peers, they could use what makes them comfortable.