Becoming A Better Teacher

If i was a teacher in a classroom that worked with families and community resources about the differences in families and the importance of family participation in the students learning, I would be facing many challenges along the way.
The first challenge I would face would be most of the parents in my community don't understand or speak much English. Which would be hard to communicate with them when talking about their child. I would have to try my best to talk about the child and hopefully they can understand a little of the English. I can also write it on a piece of paper because some native speakers can read and write English but just cant understand what I'm saying. For example, in my classroom the teacher was talking to the parent and was writing down on paper most of what she was saying and she could understand that much better than when you speak it to her. If the parents don't understand any English at all I would have to have a bilingual teacher with me to repeat back what I am saying.
Another problem i might face is the parent doesn't help their child at home with their school work or just works two jobs and doesn't have time to help their child. Also if a parent is divorced or split up it would be hard to communicate with just one and not the other. Unless the other parent doesn't care about their child's school work, but mostly both parents are very interested in what their child is learning especially at a younger age like elementary school. If the parents don't help their child with their school work it can cause a huge problem because us as teachers can only do so much in the classroom and when they get home from school that's beyond our control. If a parent doesn't sit one on one with their child especially if English is their second language and help them with their homework every night then they wont be improving their learning to move on to the next grade.
Also another problem that could be caused is if the parent isn't involved with the school and doesn't take time to go and talk to the teacher to see what the child needs help on or what they have improved with. That could cause a huge problem because then they wont know whats going on in their child's educational life. Also the parents should talk to the principal and secretaries and see all the events and different activities going on around the school so they can get involved and always know whats going on when their child isn't at home and is at school. Its very important to always check in with the school because when your child starts getting older they could have the tendency to skip school and if the parent isn't involved in the school they would never know weather their child is in school or not. Especially if the child is ESL, they could get aggravated easily and not want to go to school because the learning might be to hard for them.
Another point I would like to make is the parents need to understand that every family is different and the importance in all the different families. Some families have grown up in America and learning how to read and write comes easily to them. But others that grew up in another country need more one on one because reading and writing is their second language. This reminds me of Claude Goldenberg. When we read "Teaching English Language Learners" it reminded me of the prompt. In this article they talk all about ESL children and that's what I was writing about. This article was very interesting and talked all about how hard it is to be an ESL student compared to English being your first language. It talks all about how to deal with the ESL children and the percentages of how many were born in the U.S.A. That became very shocking to me because 76 percent were born in the U.S.A which i thought it would be a lot less. This article was also very helpful because it teaches you that you need to teach your ESL children to read from their first language first and it will help the child improve in their reading and writing. In classrooms these days, you will be placed with many ESL children especially if you work in Providence schools so us as teachers need to be prepared with learning how to teach them.
All in all, I liked this prompt very much and I thought it helped me become a better teacher by putting myself in the position that I could end up in so i am fully prepared when it becomes my turn. I also liked the article very much, it improved my knowledge about ESL students because when I become a teacher someday I will be faced with many challenges and I need to be prepared!