Representing ESL Students in the School Community

Representing ESL Students in the School Community

The article I read was called Representing ESL Students in the School Community, this article was about teachers having to deal with people treating ESL students mean. Many ESL teacher have been faced with situations where the testing they have done isn’t at accommodations level or even heard people say that student who do not speak English are being “dumb”. Situations like this are certainly not a conducive to a positive educational atmosphere. So what is a teacher to do? One thing an ESL teacher should do is enlarge her perspective, by that I mean see the big picture before jumping to conclusion. Well they talked about 10 principles of Successful Representation. I will tell you a little about each one of them. Principle #1 says to Educate, educate, educate, educate, educate! Because ignorance is the root of negativity and al...