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!) It is not a good idea to force them to leave their native tongue at home. This would be offensive to the students and their families. You can conduct sheltered instruction in your lesson plans until your hispanic students reach the cognitive academic language proficiency level. You can use the SIOP framework to simultaneously teach lesson content effectively and support their English language development. A language standard is included with the content standard in a lesson plan so that the students grow in academic English and their vocabulary is developed. The framework has an observation tool included that will allow you to receive constructive feedback by a peer or administrator or to self evaluate.                 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: Exactly. They already feel like they do not fit in because they don't speak English. Rated On: October 20, 2019 11:12 pm Rated By: ygyXeT