ESOL Placement

I LOVE my ESOL placement!  I am at Woodward Elementary in DeKalb County and the teachers and students couldn’t be any nicer. This school has a definite difference in culture than my previous teaching placement. (94% of Woodward’s students are hispanic, and 49% of Woodward’s students are receiving ESOL services.)  Aside from the different demographic of the school, the administration is much more supportive of creativity and community cohesion in the classroom. I think I lookforward to hearing the “song of the day” that plays in one of the third grade homerooms more than the students do!  The atmosphere of Woodward is just the gravy on top of the wonderfully eager-to-learn students that I get to work with everyday! I am not looking forward to leaving in a couple weeks.  : (

(Oh..and the ELLs know much more English than I anticiapted. I was afraid that there would be this huge language barrier, but so far there is only one student that really struggles with following instructions and participating in dicsussion due to his lack of English.)