Blog 15

Repetition and scaffolding is an importance in bilingual education. My interviewee talks about that in many different ways without actually pointing that out. Her methods or activities she uses like having the students get a book after they are done with breakfast to expose the kids to text and they can get use too the words. By that she wants the students to get use to words and be able to read them without a problem because they repeat the same books every day. She also talks about how she checks on their agenda the homework they wrote after they are done unpacking. I think that is a great method she wants to see what student was paying attention because they use their agendas every single day. Now for scaffolding she does a routine in language arts in the morning they review what they learned and remember from the previous day. She gave an example of how she would ask them to relate a story from last week and then she would introduce the new material of the day.

She makes sure the students are remembering and understand the assignment before they move on to something different. For centers to has three groups and she has a guided reading center which is done four days in a week which she sees, they are the lowest group and she never skips them. Not only does she have repetition with the students but she also involves the parents in the repetition because the need to check their child’s agenda and sign it every night. I think that is a great method because it creates a type of communication with the parents and teachers and the parents are comfortable because they can write notes to her because the teacher knows Spanish. The students may have trouble doing homework at home and she knows that can be a possibility so she uses a smart board and explains to them what they need to do. She also again explains to me that she uses a projector which she didn’t have in the classroom and takes out a worksheet that they are using and explains to them what they need to do.