Wednesday, March 15, 2006

I decided to search the Internet for some useful education blogs and found one I really liked. Rhymes with Right can be found at http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/. This blog is by a World History teacher in Texas. I found a very interesting blog about college professors. This blog explained how in Minnesota, they are considering a piece of legislation that requires professors to speak English. I personally whole-heartedly can relate to this situation. I have had 3 math classes at my college and each professor was foreign. The first two could speak pretty good English and could be understood with the occasional math term misunderstood. But the last teacher, oh my! Everyday was a struggle to understand her English, not to mention the linear algebra material! I agree 100% that professors should have to be able to be understood by students. Not in a snobby, Western, "our language is best way", but more in a let's be able to communicate with one another way. North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Texas already have laws that deal with college professors and English proficiency. This article can also relate to the elementary field. Our elementary school teachers should be able to speak English as well. However, in an elementary school setting we must be mindful of our ESL students who will feel the same way that the college students felt when they couldn't understand their foreign professors. This article really made me think about the other side of the coin, relating to our ESL students and how they might feel in our classrooms.

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