(Ms. Lau, an ELA Teacher In North Quincy High School)
There are many teachers in North Quincy High School. Many people and I had different motivations in their classes; SMS. This year, Ms. Lau was one of my teachers with the EL advanced class, so Ms.Lau was one of my teachers
with the EL advanced class last month. Her style was much more enormous, and those fancy desks caused her students and me to have an opportunity to feel something warmish and breezy. My Lau’s teaching style is very impeccable. She gave us more complex skills to increase free-thinking to explain those particular problems in reading many stories. I always tried to work harder and participate more in her great class. Unfortunately, I moved to a regular English course. There is no longer ESL for me as Ms.Lau’s class, but it is a good goal. Every school year when I had her class. Can’t she recognize me as her favorite class? This situation surprised me maybe because I look different every year. Every year is reasonable for looking good on purpose. On September 17th, 2021, I interviewed Ms.Lau, and her smiley face and gratitude for her class were never changing. She was working on a computer. Preparation of interview questions was ready for her to interpret. When I interviewed Ms.Lau for the first time, I recorded extraordinary observations on my phone recorder.
Here are some details of how I understood after I finished the interview how she could help her students if they have issues with their English and classwork. Ms.Lau told me that they could teach some survival English for beginners, such as how to fill out a form better, ask someone for help, and apply for jobs. These elements from beginners help us learn how to survive when we have a particular conversation with someone. She also teaches us how to describe someone. For me, it was an essential skill for my first year in the United States. Every time I see some of the beginner students in Ms. Lau’s class, it is dramatically special. I could see the improvement of all the beginners from her class, and there are more special skills from her style in the advanced course. Ms.Lau Teaches all the students targeting practice. It is reasonable for all students with targeting and has abilities to improve and to be able to fix their writing. I know that I took one advanced class from Ms.Lau, and she gave me a lot of excellent skills on effort, such as allowing me to write my letter or story to everybody, including Ms.Lau. She is also serious about her students’ efforts and not telling every student just good luck with the writing. Many examples show how the essay will work during the PSAT test, and some sources of level EL students move out of the ELA Department and let all the students have positive attitudes to move on to the next level. Last but not least, she never hurts all student’s feelings about being comfortable with the language. For me, this is a perfect study environment for us to learn from her class.
On the other hand, she has many unique targets for all students in her class for the whole year of the school semester. Most of the successful students in the beginners class could suggest more satisfactory coming to school every day in her class. Most students are frustrated with English because they don’t know how to communicate with other people. Plus, most beginners don’t have many friends in school because they are fresh. Ms.Lau could tell them, “hey! English is very fun to learn,” which is her goal for all the students in beginners class to let all the students be interested in English. All the students prepare to go to the next level, a regular English class for the advanced. She wants her students to be comfortable with their writing control and can formulate a prosperous essay by themselves. She wants her students not to be frustrated again on report writing estimations, so they still have to take MCAS on English for EL Advanced students, so Lau’s skills could help them make more effort on the introductory essay. She hoped everybody could pass the MCAS with peremptory minds.
This is how Ms.Lau teaches and helps us improve our English skills. Many students like to have Ms.Lau for English class. Many teachers are also similar to Ms.Lau. They are all great teachers. I mean, every single teacher is excellent in a different way.