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When helping lowers our expectations
Happy Friday, Reader When I was working in English as an additional language, I remember a conversation with a Year 4 teacher whose class was learning about rainforest ecosystems. For some of the pupils still developing their English, the teacher felt it would be enough if they finished the unit able to say, “It is a tree. It is big. It is green.” I asked when those children were going to learn about the rainforest. That was their opportunity to encounter those ideas. The rest of the class...