The preparation it takes to succeed

As a student I always knew that teachers had to prepare for their classes ahead of time, but I never could figure out when or how they managed to prepare the lessons and teach them. I would see teachers run make copies during class if they ran out, but I never saw my teacher creating the lessons at school.
     Now that I have been helping a teacher out, I truly see a vast majority of the preperation that goes into her lessons everyday. Some days during lunch she will finish creating a worksheet and print it off, and then I will run make enough copies for all the teachers how are doing the same lesson at the time. She will have me help create, copy and put together booklets for the science units that are coming up in the following weeks to help save her time so she can have the other lesson materials ready in enough time for the class to start.
    When I have come into the classroom in the mornings before the students have arrived I will see the teacher working on a lesson for another class later in the week, and durin the day I see her make notes on a piece of paper and at the end of the day I watch her to back and adjust tre upcoming lesson based on how the students did that day. I have observed that the teachers who have taken the time to get to know their students and how they are doing out more thought into their lesson plans and it really helps lessons run more smoothly, and the content is remembered better by he students. Teachers spend countless hours outside of their classroom creating lessons, grading papers, emailing parents, and making master copies. None of that ends when they get to school, it just continues but they may have help from a copy aid or volunteers to help make their life easier. The proerpstion it takes to help a student succeed can't be done just I the classroom, it takes more time and effort and the teachers that change children's attitude about learning are those who have taken the time to prepare.

Supporting the English Language Learners

     When a new student is introduced to the class every one asks questions, but when they come from a country that doesn't speak English the students are even more curious about the new comer. The other students curiosity can be one of the biggest helps in a classroom to first make the new student feel accepted. If the other students ask questions in English to the student they can begin to learn basic conversational skills in english, and the English speaking students learn some of the other students language as well.
      As a teacher one of the ways to help the student learn english is by gearing lessons to all three types of learning modalities. If a lesson is formated to help the different types of learners, then you are giving the English learning student more ways to learn and remember what they are taught. If you teach things repetitively, and then review it the next day it will help the student to remember it even more. We can also help the student transition to our class by providing them learning materials ahead of time that are in their native language, so that when the class covers the material together they have a basic understanding in their own language, which makes it easier to translate to english once they know the terms. If we provide the English Learners with a list of common words used in our class room, and the translation to their native language, it will help them to understand what we are saying and help them to be able to communicate with the other students better.