Entry 3: Interview with a teacher
Interview Link: https://youtu.be/YunNWqkikjc I interviewed Ms. Ramirez, she is an 8 th grade math ESL teacher at the school where I am doing my student teaching. In the interview she mentioned how students had a difficult time with print rich problems because they had to make sense of what the words meant in Spanish. She said that the students don’t struggle with the actual math itself, but with the word problems that they have to work with. I can see why this is a problem especially with the students that are barely grasping the English language. They might not be able to connect how to solve the problem or what the problem is asking them to do. I was surprised that Ms. Ramirez said that the students are motivated by being able to teach their parents new English words that they learned in school. It is interesting how some of the students are sharing their knowledge with their parents. According to Ortega, “motivation is usually understood to refer to the desire to...