What is your learning style? Have you ever taken a learning style inventory? In your classrooms as teachers how have you or do you address the issue of learning styles? Finally discuss your experience with learners' beliefs about language, of either your students or their parents. How has it affected your teaching?
People have often told me that I am very intelligent. My response is always the same; “I am not smart, I just know the way I learn.” After reading about the different learning styles, I am unsure now. I believe that I learn by visualizing and by tactile; in order for me to produce I must see and touch. I have never taken a learning style inventory but I have noticed how I perform the best and it is by seeing and touching, and at times by interaction. In conclusion, I suggest that I am a combination of all learning styles.
I am a Bilingual Education teacher at Loma Park Elementary. I teach Kinder Bilingual and I have just completed my first year of teaching. We have a late exit program, 90% Spanish and 10% of ESL at the Kinder level. At the beginning my students’ parents were tentative about my instruction in Spanish but once I educated them about the way and success of Bilingual Education, I had no more concerns. I only had one “Parent Denial.” She explained that her parents experienced corporal punishment if they spoke Spanish at school; therefore, she did not want her daughter to go through the same horrid experiences. Although, I explained to her that times have changed, I can understand her decision. The fact that I educated my students’ parents about Bilingual Education made me more comfortable about my teaching. My students were successful.
PoLo
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Hola Polo,
Tu commentario me interese mucho, especialmente la associacion del punir con una lengua. Another diametrically opposite example is Franco's Spain, when the Guerra Civil ended, Cataluna was forbidden to speak Catalan, which, as you know, is a mixture of French and Spanish, but a language of its own. Political repression drives languages underground, and instead of killing Catalan, once Franco died, a renaissance of the language came. I have heard that in Cataluna people are encouraged not to speak Spanish, but Catalan. So, it is sad that some people buckle under (los de abajo in the terms of Luis Bunuel)instead of resisting and knowing that there are choices. Thanks for the story.
Having briefly observed you, you are a high-energy person, very articulate, and enthusiastic. Sometimes your English can flow as rapidly as your Spanish!
I am happy to be in class with you and learn more about bi-lingual education. Please explain in class what a "late-exit" program is.
Thanks,
Carol
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