I started Practicum this week. I am tired and over-caffeinated and busy, busy, busy, hopping from one thing to the next. And yet, I love it. My three hours in the classroom every afernoon brightens each day.
Placed in an ELL classroom, I am starting to understand the challeges that not only these students but the teacher faces. The students speak at least five different langauges amongst them, anything from Spanish to Albanian. Though they struggle with their speaking and reading of English, for the most part, they want to learn, to know this language and its idiosyncracies that we take for granted. They want to fit in.
After one week, I've found that I admire each student. The challenge is real: having a fairly simple conversation can become an elaborate game of charades. However, they try.
I'm looking forward for what the next seven weeks has in store for me.
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