- Hello, Mrs. Carroll. Thank you for your desire to give us Interview about ESOL program and let’s begin!
- You know that a good reporter always gives his or her subject questions ahead of the time to be prepared. (Both of us laughing)
- Mrs. Carroll, do you know how long there has been an ESOL program in our school?
- Yes! Almost 40 years!
- Wow!
- Mrs. Paulie, who was my predecessor and who retired in 2013 opened the program, when she was about 21 or 22 years old and I think she told me that she had run this program for 36 years and this is my third year as an ESOL director so this means it is almost 40 years that the program has been active here. It started off very small and it just blew up! (Both of us laughing)
- How would you evaluate …show more content…
I was a history teacher and one day I was substituting because there were no history jobs and I walked into the ESOL class and I got fascinated by it. ESOL is a strange combination of history and culture matched together and so it was what I studied for and what I wanted to do and Walla! I came back to school to become an ESOL teacher.
- Nice!…..What are the several methods of teaching an ESOL program and how effective is it?
- Ways and methods….. Do you mean how do you teach it or how is it structured?
- Structured.
- It is structured so that ESOL 1 and 2 students get three concentrated classes of reading, writing, and speaking. So they can learn to read, learn to write, and to speak in front of strangers which they will have to do in college anyways. When they get to level 3, it is only reading and writing class, because the speaking aspect has started to kick in and ESOL 3 students are the ones that are making the transition, they are the ones that are almost ready to go. At ESOL 4, they still need a little support, because they came here maybe older or they are not the best students, so they don’t test well. ESOL 5 is just another support class. Sometimes, we get a lot of seniors there who had some interactions in their educational process in their country so they still need that ESOL support. And every teacher has different teaching style. There is no one teaching style. Some teachers are strict, some are easygoing and funny, some have high …show more content…
So there is a great variation.
- So it all depends on the personal traits, situational and environmental factors, and past experience with English right?
- Mmmmmm….. It depends on parental involvement in education, It is about whether they got dragged here in United States or whether they couldn’t wait to get here, or whether they are here to get education for a job. So for every students, there is a story.
- Definitely….. what do you think is the main struggle that ESOL students go through? Is it a language barrier, culture shock, nostalgia for their country or adaptation to the new
- You know that a good reporter always gives his or her subject questions ahead of the time to be prepared. (Both of us laughing)
- Mrs. Carroll, do you know how long there has been an ESOL program in our school?
- Yes! Almost 40 years!
- Wow!
- Mrs. Paulie, who was my predecessor and who retired in 2013 opened the program, when she was about 21 or 22 years old and I think she told me that she had run this program for 36 years and this is my third year as an ESOL director so this means it is almost 40 years that the program has been active here. It started off very small and it just blew up! (Both of us laughing)
- How would you evaluate …show more content…
I was a history teacher and one day I was substituting because there were no history jobs and I walked into the ESOL class and I got fascinated by it. ESOL is a strange combination of history and culture matched together and so it was what I studied for and what I wanted to do and Walla! I came back to school to become an ESOL teacher.
- Nice!…..What are the several methods of teaching an ESOL program and how effective is it?
- Ways and methods….. Do you mean how do you teach it or how is it structured?
- Structured.
- It is structured so that ESOL 1 and 2 students get three concentrated classes of reading, writing, and speaking. So they can learn to read, learn to write, and to speak in front of strangers which they will have to do in college anyways. When they get to level 3, it is only reading and writing class, because the speaking aspect has started to kick in and ESOL 3 students are the ones that are making the transition, they are the ones that are almost ready to go. At ESOL 4, they still need a little support, because they came here maybe older or they are not the best students, so they don’t test well. ESOL 5 is just another support class. Sometimes, we get a lot of seniors there who had some interactions in their educational process in their country so they still need that ESOL support. And every teacher has different teaching style. There is no one teaching style. Some teachers are strict, some are easygoing and funny, some have high …show more content…
So there is a great variation.
- So it all depends on the personal traits, situational and environmental factors, and past experience with English right?
- Mmmmmm….. It depends on parental involvement in education, It is about whether they got dragged here in United States or whether they couldn’t wait to get here, or whether they are here to get education for a job. So for every students, there is a story.
- Definitely….. what do you think is the main struggle that ESOL students go through? Is it a language barrier, culture shock, nostalgia for their country or adaptation to the new