While talking to my teacher I asked her what the greatest demands are that she faces and how these demands impact her teaching on a day to day basis. While talking with her she said that her biggest struggle was the different levels that every student in her class was at. It is so hard to be teaching a math lesson knowing that half the class is lost and not being able to go and work with them because then the other half of the class would be unattended. It is so difficult to know that some of the students in her class are not even at a second grade reading level and they are getting ready to move on to the fourth grade. It makes things difficult but it allows for the teacher to get creative with her teaching. She needs to find ways of explaining things so that every student understands and gets hands on understanding. She uses a program called GLAD that helps ESL learners and which really helps her class as a whole. Something else that makes these issues better is having us as aids because they she utilizes us and has us bring kids aside and work on math, reading, and writing that they are struggling with. This way all her students are able to stay at a closer pace with one another. :)
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