Today I was able to witness an English Learner Classroom. This a special for a few of the students in my field experience classroom. When I was asked if I wanted to see how it was run I couldn't wait. Not every school has this opportunity, and not every student teacher is able to find time to witness it either. When the ELL teacher came to grab my six students I noticed right away that she wasn't very nice. She yelled for their names and disrupted the entire class from warm up work. This caused chatter and chaos with other students. While we were walking down to her classroom she was yelling at the students to walk quietly and keep their hands to themselves when they already were doing so. Also, when we got to the classroom she immediately slammed the iPads down on their desks and told them to play the reading games. I was thinking to myself, "How can they play reading games when they can hardly speak English?" This day was a testing day, so she was testing to see their reading fluency. While she was testing I was trying my hardest to keep the other five students on track and help them as much as possible with reading games. Every now and again I would look over and try to sneak a peek at what she was doing. I couldn't see much because her desk was very unorganized and she was yelling at the student when they weren't doing very well.
I'm not really sure what I should do. This isn't what I was expecting whatsoever. Are my expectations to high? Any ideas?
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