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 definitely would not encourage you to stop the students from speaking their native language. What I would encourage you to do though is to invest in a English to Spanish translator so it would allow you to translate things the students may be saying or things you want to say to the students. I would also encourage you to use as many visuals as possible, so that the students can learn to put words with pictures. Using the SIOP teaching strategy would also assist you when it comes to teaching certain lessons. I would also create as many group projects as possible to allow the students to mingle with English speaking students, in hopes that they'll become familiar with the English language.