Friday, November 1, 2013

Growing ranks of Latino educators take thier jobs personally


Week # 9 Article #2

 

1.            Melissa B. Taboada (2013, October 27) Growing ranks of Latino educators take their jobs personally. Austin American statesman

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local-education/growing-ranks-of-latino-educators-take-their-jobs-/nbZqc/

2.         Category of problem: The raising number of low-income and diverse number of students in Texas public schools

3.         Level of problem: State

4.         This article concerns: A problem/issue that individuals/families face

5.         Importance/affect on families/individuals: This affect families/individuals because so many of these low-income student can’t speak English or barely speak any at all.

6.         My input: I feel like this is a raising issue in Texas. I am doing by internship right now at a low-income school where 99.9% of the students live in poverty. I have notice a few things, one being that definitely in the younger grades the  students will speak Spanish over English when taking with other classmates, which I don’t think it really ok because how are the student supposed to learn better English skills when they are not practicing them. Also, most of the students I work with have been held back at least once so because they live in poverty it is effecting them in school and in other ways of their lives. I feel that there needs to be more help for students that live in poverty especially the once that don’t speak English years before they start school. I also don’t think the race of the teacher matters when teaching any child, just that the teacher is a good teacher and is willing to do everything she can do so that every one of her students in her class can have the ability to learn.

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