Blog #3

What strategies does the teacher use to support students who are English learners?

In the classroom I'm assigned to, the teacher has three students who are deaf--two of which have just recently had successful surgeries, giving them hearing they have not had before this year. Because she has such an unusually high amount of students with specific hearing needs, she caters each of them individually, and I am increasing amazed at her deep concern for them.
Since they have not been able to speak very well, they are considered "english learners" in her classroom. At all times, she has a microphone device clipped on to her shirt so the deaf student can hear, and she gives slow, simplified and very specific instructions to the two english learners. I feel so lucky to be in a classroom where I can watch and observe the techniques she uses to cater to the different needs of her students.