Reflection 3

Last week, I had my very first experience working with and teaching an ESL class at Red Cedar Elementary School. From my first day, I picked up several observations. Through the activity that we did, it was clear to me that many of these ELL and ESL students do not have a strong concept of the parts of speech and grammar when it comes to speaking the English language. It was also clear to me that I needed to work on my skills with accomodating different levels of learning, because while some kids caught on faster than others during our activity, there were still students even at the end that struggled to understand the concept of what we were trying to get across to them. It was frustrating, but it made me more motivated to be better prepared in the future. Overall, I really enjoyed working with the students on the first day and I look forward to implementing some of the things that we have learned in class as I continue to work at this job.