Blog 3
For this entry, I interviewed a teacher that works on the first grade team with my cooperating teacher and I. This is the interview . Reflection After interviewing Mrs. Aitken, I learned some more about the field of English Language Acquisition and its many nuances. In Mrs. Aitken’s case because she was primarily a kindergarten teacher in the past and is a first-grade teacher currently, she could naturally teach a child English because it’s naturally how you would teach these grade levels. At the grade levels she had taught it’s natural to teach using many visuals, modeling, and having them work with their peers. I also really like the point she brought up about the immersion and pull-out method. I am in favor of students being fully immersed, but I do agree with what she said about being pull-out only for a short amount of time. There is a lot of research that differs from this thought, but I know she knows from first-hand experience that having a child be pull-out to...