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Large Number of English Learners Challenges MN Schools
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January 26, 2016
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6:43Now PlayingAmy Hewett-Olatunde, the 2015 Minnesota Teacher of the Year, addressed the Senate Education Committee Tuesday, January 26, at the Minnesota Senate Building in St. Paul. As an advocate and supporter of immigrant and refugee English learners in Minnesota, she gave testimony to committee members about some of the educational and personal obstacles facing those students.
Hewett-Olatunde related the story of an eighteen-year old girl in a main streamed, eleventh grade English Literature class. “She understands thirty percent of what she reads in her textbook. She’s failing all of her classes, and she’s expected to translate Elizabethan English with her understanding of modern day English at a fourth grade level.” Hewett-Olatunde said. “…her self-worth is at an all time low.”
Along with Amy Hewett-Olatunde, the committee heard testimony from previous winners of the Minnesota Teacher of the Year award. Each presented specific topics of interest, including social and emotional learning, teacher quality and evaluation plans, early childhood programs and teaching strategies.
Visit www.senate.mn/media for the complete committee hearing and testimony from other award winners.
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