Last week I led a discussion group of teaching fellows and we were supposed to discuss something regarding race in the education field. I was so intrigued by the movie our class watched, that i decided to discuss something similar. I asked my group how they would treat illegal immigrants in their classroom and how they would bridge the gap between these students and the other students.
I was so pleased, that no matter any individual's particular bleiefs about immigration, all of my group agreed that the childs needs come first. We talked about different lagnuage programs that culd be implemented, including a growing of the dual lagnuage classrooms schools are experimenting with today. Half the class are english speakers and half the class are Spanish speakers, which not only helps the Spanish speakers learn English, but the English speakers learn Spanish too!
We alos talked about offering extra tutoring sessions after school for students that are not only having trouble with the material, but are having trouble fitting in socially. Being able to offer them a place where they can speak freely about their fears and whats botheirng them gives us, as eductaors, an oppurtunity to correct these problems.
Overall, I was just excited because it seems that every person I've talked to in my teaching fellows cohort genuinly cannot wait to help their students and I believe that that is exactly whats needed in the eductaion field. Teachers who actually care and WANT to make a difference.
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