Blog Entry 3
For this entry I interviewed one of the teachers at the elementary schools I am doing my student teaching at. She has been working in Humble ISD for over five years now, and graduated from Sam Houston State. Hope you enjoy the video! Blog Entry 3: Interview
Reflection
The interview
with the ESL teacher went very well. She is a 3rd grade teacher at Atascocita
springs where I am doing my student teaching. She seemed to answer the
interview questions very well. The interview also helped me connect what we are
learning in this class to how teachers interact with students in the classroom.
Most of all from the interview I learned that there are many different methods
and strategies to teach English language leaners. For example, the teacher I interviewed
focused more on the audio-lingual method of teaching English. She started by
saying words or phrases to her students then followed that up by having
students get into groups and speak the new phrases or words to one another in
an authentic environment. I really connected with this method because I think I
would learn best if this method were taught to me.
Another great point she made was
about corrective feedback. She seemed very comfortable in giving corrective
feedback to students as she claims that she knows how to read students and the
corrective feedback she gives depends on the student. So, if she knew the
student needed more nurturing, she would be kind and not so harsh with her feedback
but still get her point across. In comparison with other students who need corrective
feedback cut and dry so they know exactly what they need to work on and understand.
Lastly
the teacher seemed like she knew a little about the theoretical concepts of English
language learners. She didn’t really present very many terms or concepts we are
learning in class by name, but she described them and I was able to understand
what she was talking from the information provided from this course.
