Blog #5

Blog #5

While in my service learning I did observe 1 hour of 2^nd grades ESL program. The students whose first language is not English gets to come together in one classroom and for an hour focus on learning the English language better.  Federal policy for language-minority students learning English changed dramatically with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), President George W. Bush's plan for the re-authorization of the ESEA. 

My service learning is at a Title one school and I was able to experience a lot of the laws that have been implemented into the school education system. I saw first-hand how ESL was handled in classrooms along with all the technology they have to help their students learn. As we learned, because of sputnik, our government started investing more into children’s education. I saw that in every classroom because each classroom had a laptop for each student and tablets for the students to log in on. They have fun curriculum based games for students to learn in more interactive way. Each classroom also has a smart board to help them learn more and teachers are able to create interactive lessons with the smart board to keep their children more engaged. Many teachers have told me that their children love coming to school and learning new things because of all the many ways they are able to teach them. They are never board they are always having fun while learning.