I am in an area where the primary home language is English, with a minority as another home language. Benefits of teaching in their home language, is that the student may understand the material better. Disadvantages of teaching in their home language, may keep them from advancing forward where majority of material is being taught in English. 

To measure student success, I try to use unit reviews or ask questions during class of material currently going over or recently reviewed in days prior. To measure teacher (my) success in teaching the material, I review student scores on how many are retaining the information given. 

I have been using the book and white board and trying to read aloud material to teach/review. Recently I have started a "word wall" using picture vocabulary & highlighting the vocabulary words. I am in the midst of trialing this, to see how much more it improves the retainment of information provided during class. I try to get them to be involved by asking them to answer questions in class, but notice not all students participate in this. I liked where the teacher in this video had the students discuss answers amongst themselves first prior to giving her an answer. I think this would allow them to communicate the topic in a way they would understand better and explain it to each other if they did or didn't understand. Then after discussion they would be able to answer as a whole and hopefully understand the topic more. 

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Integrating a child's home language can be very tricky, due to having to integrate other children's languages as well to try and keep things even. While considering some advantages, it would allow the students to learn about different cultures, as well as learn a new skill that they can pick up themselves later on. A few disadvantages would be accidentally not being able to meet every child's individual language, causing more harm. How I would integrate language into my classroom is by allowing my students to base their projects on their culture and text in their art. I would also have a culture project to allow students to showcase their culture and their art through it at the end of the year.

I believe that the benefits of attempting to integrate the child’s home language into the classroom helps the child to better understand what is being taught as well as making the child feel accepted. Some of the disadvantages are that the student becomes too dependent on his home language instead of assimilation into the language of the classroom.   When I am trying to determine student success, which in turn is my success, I do look at formal and informal assessments.  I look at student engagement, assignment completion, and school attendance.  In my classroom, I use written, spoken, and visual expression to reinforce concepts.  Hopefully, this helps students to improve their language skills.

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