Fires in the Bathroom chapter 8

I was shocked when I read that 1 in 6 students in America are going to schools where English isn’t their first language. I come from a high school where there wasn’t much diversity at all, and the only people that didn’t speak English as their first language were the exchange students. In this book the students are treated differently because English is their second language, but they are just looking to fit in and learn life everyone else. The most important thing to do is to check for understanding. If the students do not understand something and you move on then they are going to be lost. But if you check for understanding and repeat yourself things are more likely to move smoothly. Another thing this chapter mentions is to be patient. Patients will keep you from giving up on the students, which is the worst possible thing you can do. If you don’t have faith in your students, then they will not have faith in themselves.