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Interview with an EL Teacher

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Hello everyone and welcome to my latest vlog. In today's entry, I am sharing and interview with Bethany Cobb who is the ESL lead teacher at Stockdick Junior High in Katy ISD. In addition to Ms. Cobb being the ESL team lead, she teaches a 6th grade sheltered ESL classroom. A sheltered ESL classroom is a classroom comprised only of ESL students where they are taught grade level content in English, in a manner in which they can comprehend. In order to qualify to be in Ms. Cobbs classroom, the students must be within their first 3 years of enrollment in United States schools and be on a certain level with state and district language tests. When asked about what part of English language acquisition is most challenging for her students, what Ms. Cobb describes aligns with TESOL’s English Langage Proficiency Standards, where the first standard to be obtained is social language with academic language coming far after. (Wright, 2019) She added that an additional challenge that her ...
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Entry 2: An Interview with an English Language Learner

Hello all and welcome to my second Vblog entry. For today’s entry, I am sharing an interview I had with an English language learner who is very close to me, Fernando Leal, who also happens to be my father. Through the interview, I was able to learn about experiences, both positive and negative, that he was subjected to in the public school system in San Antonio, TX. Fernando was a native U.S. born ELL, as described in Wright Chapter 1 (2019). Were immigrants from Mexico and he and his siblings were first generation Americans. He began school when he was 6 with limited English abilities. The English abilities that he did have was due to his older siblings. In school, Fernando was placed in a general education classroom without any specific language support. Fernando described the excitement he felt with going to school and the intrinsic motivation he had to do well. He spoke about working harder in school to make up for the deficit he had due to language. This wasn’t the case for many o...
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Entry 1: Introduction

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     Hi, My name is Brittney Killion and I am a Senior at the University of Houston college of education. I will be graduating in December with a certification to teach 4th through 8th grade math. I am currently student teaching at Stockdick Junior High in Katy ISD. Thank you for taking the time to view my introduction video and I look forward to getting to know everyone better and learning more ways to support my students in my last semester at UH.  
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