Prompt 5 theoritst: Goldenburg

I believe one problem I would have with teaching this classroom would be with the parents. The parents are mostly English Language Learners and some don't speak English. Having parent teacher confrences would be hard. I would have to have a translator or the child present to translate what I am saying so the parent would understand. The problem with the student translating is whether they are translating what you are actually saying. The other problem I would have with these parent in this classroom would be whether the parents show up or not to parent teacher confrences. By talking to the teacher I found that most of the parents are not involved in the classroom or their childrens learning. This would be an issue for me because I want to be a teacher where I am constantly involving the parents so they can see what is going on in the classroom and can be an active member in it. The parents right now are not active memebers. Most of these students do not get their homework done and are struggling to read because the parents are not helping at home. One girl didn't even go to school for a week because it interfered with her moms schedule. This would be a big problem for me. I would want parents to be not only bringing their children to school daily I would also want them to volunteer in the classroom and other activites for the school.
I related these ideas to Goldenburg. Goldenburg explains about English Language Learners and how it is important to teach in both languages. I want to be a teacher that can help students and parents learn in both English and their native language. I want to incoperate their native language into their learning. I think that by involving the parents into their education you can also involve their native language. With bringing their parents in they can learn in both languages. Eventually you can learn more in English then in the native language at school and these students will do just as well as students who speak only English or English as a first language. This is Goldenburg's main pionts in his article. He discusses learning in both languages and I agree with him. Both languages should be taught in classrooms. I think it would be a great way to solve the problem of parents being involved. They would want to be in classroom and helping if they knew that their accent and language would be accepted.