Wednesday 29

Westside School (Public school)
I watched Judy Marlow working with children whose origin is not American and they basically don't know how to speak or read or write English, most of them understand because they have been living here for some time. So they have extra classes with Judi to help them catch up with the rest. It is basically making them literate. Some are stronger than others, some have been longer in the school so they have more advantages, some have just arrived in the country and they don't know the language, the culture, the school customs and habits, and most of them have parents who don't speak the language. When families emigrate from their own countries they don't realize that in the other place they become iliterate, and that produces a stressing situation for their children.
Then I went to a Math class, the teacher was using a technique called the lightening round, they are given a whole sheet of paper with 40/50 divisions in this case, they are given 4' and they have to solve as many as they can. They keep a record of the amount of right answers to see if they can improve their previous mark. It is not a test.