Prompt 2 - Goldenberg

While being at my school now for about a month or so i have noticed that the two classrooms that i am in during the 2 hours that i am there are segregated within the classrooms. I did a little research and went on www.infoworks.ride.uri.edu/ and saw that the majority of the students were African-Americans and \Hispanics. Most of these students live in poverty. Now that i have seen these percentages for my school I have began to realize that, that statement is true. While being my kindergarten class i noticed that there is mostly Hispanic children and a few African American students and maybe 1 or 2 white students in the class. With that being said it is clear that the teacher needs to inter-grade her teaching so that it can relate with all of the children in her class. As i go to two different classrooms, one being a first grade classroom and the other being a kindergarten classroom i have noticed that my firth grade classroom has more white students then African American or Hispanic students in it. As i was sitting in class the other day i took a look around the classroom and watched the children as they moved from there desks to the rug and that there weren't many children of different races in my first grade classroom. Just the other day i was in my kindergarten classroom and i watched the children interact with one another and watched how this one little boy and his friend another little boy weren't talking in English. as i was watching them speak to one another in there language as they noticed i was watching the immediately changed the way they were talking and began to finish there little conversation in English. I was began to sit there and think to myself "hm why did they changed there language so fast" i then realized that the teacher wants them to speak English because they all speak English in class so everyone of the students should be able to speak English. After that class and i was beginning to gather my belongings and head down the hall to my first grade classroom i asked the teacher about what i just witness with the boy young boys. She told me that she would rather them speak in English even thou it is not there first language but they still can communicate in it pretty well and that they should learn to become stronger with the English language. As she was explaining that to me it clicked in my head that as soon as they saw me watching them they changed into English because they didn't want to get in trouble for not using English.
As i was driving home that day i began to think it that related to any of the articles that we have read and class and it made me think of Goldenberg . it made me think of him because he said that teachers need to be effective and how the teachers need to help the students more that English is not there first language, and that they might not use it unless in school. the more they use it the more they will be comfortable using it and wont even have to think about when to speak it and when not to. That day while being in that classroom the teacher informed me that most of these students don't speak English at home and don't use it unless they were taught it or have to use it. i took that into consideration as i was thinking back to seeing to the two young boys speaking in there native language which is probably there first language and the language that they were taught by there parents to use. After reading the article by Goldenberg he states that they children will learn from there experiences and if it is difficult for them they will get motivated and want to be able to learn and do good with it. As the teacher told me she wants her students to be able to speak in English and want to be able to use it.