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My experience with bilingualism can assist me in teaching emerging bilinguals.

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My experience with bilingualism can assist me in teaching emerging bilinguals.

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I endeavor to make language, writing and reading engaging by drawing from students' funds of knowledge to make disciplinary instruction relevant. Students should be immersed in a language rich environment where they are introduced to genres and writers that have the potential to make them life-long readers and learners.

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For most of my life, I have been a deficit-thinker. Working in the classroom has helped me to begin developing asset-based thinking. Instead of focusing attention on what students lack by way of competencies, we build upon strengths like creativity, responsibility and knowledge of other subjects.

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I was primed for success because of the literacy habits of my primary discourse.

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I was primed for success because of the literacy habits of my primary discourse.

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In college, I learned to appreciate how a language rich primary discourse gave me an unfair academic advantage in school. As educators, we should level the playing field by discovering the different skills students bring to the classroom.

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My education and future is MY responsibility. 

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My education and future is MY responsibility. 

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Both of my parents worked and I was an unmotivated student. I failed my Freshmen math class and that experience helped me to appreciate that my family could direct me but ultimately my success or failure depended on my effort.

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Language was a fun way to express myself and learn.

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Language was a fun way to express myself and learn.

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Attending a dual-immersion bilingual program helped me to appreciate the fun interplay languages can have in learning.