Assignment task: What is your personal philosophy of teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students?
Q1. Describe how your own identities, cultural understandings, personal biases, and/ or conscious knowledge may influence the way you perceive the strengths / challenges of ELLs/ EBLs. What have you discovered? How will you continue to grow in this area?
Q2. What tools do you currently use (or WANT to use) to understand ELLs/ EBLs' families, communities, personal interests, and cultural background; academic background knowledge, educational history and current performance? Did you acquire any new tools or perspectives from our course for better understanding them? Briefly describe.
Q3. How might you use this background knowledge to plan instruction, select materials, and assess children? How does this information influence your advocacy for ELLs and interaction with parents or guardians?