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 would encourage them to first spend at least one-fourth of the day speaking in English when doing activities and assignments. Then slowly move into them trying to communicate and write in English for at least half of the day. Then slowly move into three-fourths of the day until they eventually communicating in English for the majority of the day. I would not separate them right away, but over time, give them experiences working with each other and with their English speaking peers.