My Field Experience As An ENL Teacher

This field experience was innovative, fun, and a great learning experience. I was able to follow an ENL teacher who has worked in the field for roughly 10 years. At the same time I was able to see the teacher- student relationships of many different professions, and able to observe the dynamic relationships of ENL, Special Education, Literacy, Writing, and Classroom teachers. This diverse population of educators, make up the schooling systems, and are molding the students of our society.

Before I did my field experience I never thought of the amount of work that went into bringing all these different educators under one roof, and trying to coincide together to make lessons flow evenly. I was able to watch how the ENL teacher has to meet with the Special Education teacher,

For example, the ENL teacher has many responsibilities, including ensuring reading comprehension is being understood receptively and expressively, ENL students are being properly integrated into the school, and are provided with the supports needed to gain English proficiency. They are also thrown into a variety of grades, which focus on different Common Core objectives, and learning standards. This forces the teacher to really be proficient in regards to standards, so he or she knows what needs to be taught by the end of the year in each grade.

The school environment is a very perplex entity to understand. There is so much behind the scene information one must know in order to succeed as an educator. I never realized the abundance of knowledge, information, and time that goes into every single position in a school. For example, I am in graduate school for a degree in Special Education. It is a very different entity when compared to an ENL teacher, or a Writing teacher. There are some similarities, such as pushing-in to classrooms, and pulling-out of classrooms, and helping all students. But the behind the scenes work is