Hello, my name is Melissa Shinke. I am a Bilingual Elementary Education major with Spanish and TESOL minors. I am looking forward to teach diverse children and develop age-appropriate and culturally-appropriate lesson plans for them. I wanted to get a TESOL minor because I also want to teach children or adults that need or want to learn English as a Second Language. I want to experience teaching an ESL classroom, not only because I want to become a language teacher and teach linguistically diverse children, but like them, I also had to attend ESL classrooms when I was younger!
I am from Peru, South America and came to the United States 11 years ago. I had to take ESL classes in middle school and high school in the U.S, even though I already knew some English, and created friendships with classmates from South America, Hungary, India, and many more. Actually, my first best friend in the U.S. was a girl from Hungary and we struggled to communicate at first, but then created a wonderful friendship that has lasted for many years.
In the future, I want to have a diverse learning environment helping ELL students overcome challenges, be proud of their own sociocultural and linguistic differences while respecting others, connect with the new culture and learn more than just the language. In the English 345 course, I am looking forward to learning various teaching methods and the appropriate tools and materials to fit the needs of every culturally and linguistically diverse child, as well as to learn from other TESOL pre service teachers going through the same process as me.
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