Group Five Presentation

Group five did their presentation on chapter eight: The Organization of American Schools. They showed us two really interesting news video clips. The first one was on virtual schools, many people are saying we could get rid of teachers and have all online learning. I don't really agree with this because I know I learn best when I am in class, it's really hard for me to learn something if i'm reading it over the internet, especially math. I think this idea would also be really crucial because it would lack the social interaction skills all children need to be successful in life. It may be an options for some kids, but not everyone can learn like that. The other video they showed was about all day kindergarten. Many schools were switching from half days to all days. This idea was nothing new to me because ever since I can remember my school had all day kindergarten. I think it is really helpfull for students and gets them prepared for 1st grade. Group five also mentioned some ways schools could be set up, like a four day week instead of the traditional 5 day weeks. I actually think this idea would be nice because it gives teachers the chance to do bigger projects and have more time for lessons. I think it would be really nice for students to have a longer weekend and get refreshed. This way I think they would be more ready to learn after the long break when they come back to school. This also gives a free day for teachers and students to make appointments and do other extra activities. In the long run it  should help cut back on the school budget. I have never attended a school like this, but I think it would be really interesting to see how it worked. I think group five did a great job with their presentation and it was interesting to hear the different ways schools could be organized because I wasn't familar with a lot of them.

School Organization

The school that I attended was Wabasso Public High School. I attended this school from pre-school until 12th grade. Starting with pre-school we had the option of going full days or half days. My mom decided to have me go for only half days in pre-school. In Kindergarten all the students attending for full days. Throughout elementary we only had one class for each grade so I was always with the same classmates. Wabasso considered k-6 to be elementary, 7th & 8th grade was junior high, and 9th-12th grade was high school. Once we were in 7th grade the students from the catholic school joined our class so we then had two sections instead of just one. Wabasso also followed a traditional school year. Class started at 8 and ended at about 3, this gave students a lot of time for extra activities after school, like sports. My school also had the three months in summer off. Since that's all I grew up with it's really hard for me to imagine what it would be like to have school all year. I'm not sure if I would really like that because I know the summer is when I made a lot of memories with my friends since we were all off in the summers. The only thing that I think would really be nice about school all year is that students would maybe remember the material better if they didn't have such a big break in between.

2 Million Minutes

I thought the movie 2 Million Minutes was very interesting and eye opening. It's very clear that schools in the United States are very different then the schools in China or India. Americans don't seem to be aware of the world around them and that they are competeing with the rest of the world. The first thing that really shocked me was how much time Americans spent on homework compared to the other schools. The average student in America spends about one hour a night on homework and this does not include weekend. Instead of having our main focus be academics we put a lot of emphasize on our athletics and social lives. The kids who are interviewed from the U.S admitt that they don't put a ton of time into studying and their school work, but the one's who were interviewed from the U.S got into the school of their choice and the student's interviewed from China and India did not get into the schools they wanted to because there education is so competitive. I noticed that in India they have very good family support. They families want them to stay focused on their future. Many of them decide what they want to do with their future at a very young age. China also seemed to have very strong supportive families. Since they are only allowed one child per family many of the families invest their money and efforts in to that childs future and education. Both of these countries put a very high emphasize on their studies, and less on sports and social events like the students in the United States do.

Group 4 Presentation

Group four did their presentation on chapter seven, the philosophy of education. They went through the four areas in which the philosophy of education covers. These areas are They were Perennialism, Essentialism, Progressivism, and Social Reconstructionism. They gave us a inventory type worksheet that determined which philosophy described how we wanted to teach the most. I really liked this worksheet because I think it will become very useful when we start writing our final papers. They also used some really great quotes in their presentation and the incorporated some clips from a few movies that gave us a chance to see what some of the areas in the philosophy of education looked like. Overall, I think this group did a really good job covering such a broad and important topic. The information they presented will be very helpful for deciding which philosophy we want to follow in the future.

Global Achievement Gap: Chapter 6

*Chapter six is about closing the gap and Wagner talks about a few schools that inforce the seven survival skills. The school he talked about alot was High Tech High, which is a school development organixation consisting of k-12 public charter schools. These schools are very well known for their highly rigorous education practices.

*High Tech High doesn't base their education off of textbooks. They use interdisciplanary projects which is project based learning to help teach students. They don't teach students to just memorize material for the standardized test, yet their scores are amongst the highest in the country compared to other schools.

*The original reason High Tech High was formed was the concern that kids were leaving high school knowing how to memorize facts and they were unable to apply what they know to the real world. In other words students were not being prepared for real world skills that they needed to succeed.

*Some of the common set goals at High Tech High were..
-Serve student body in response to ethnic/diversity of local community
-Integrate technical and academic education in both high tech and liberal arts fields
-Increase the number of successful student in math and engineering
-Graduate students who will be thoughtful, engaged citizens

*Warwick was one of the teachers Wagner interviewed. Warwick said they way they teach at this school is a way in which the students will be perpared for the real world. He said when they graduate the goal is that they will have the ability to articulate their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings.

*HTH is a new graduate program that was formed off of these High Tech High associations. It's a program for future teachers, they spend the majority of their school working with a mentor in classrooms. I think this is a great idea and will teach the students so much more than just sitting in a classroom.

Ideal Teacher Prep Program

 I think many things could be done to improve programs for teacher preparation. The first and most important thing I think they should change is giving more time for student teaching. I have talked to so many people who are teachers today and they say they have by far learned the most during their student teacher experience. I think allow students more time to get hands on experience is so crucial because the only way you get better at something is to actually get out their and do it. I don't feel that the time that we have for student teaching is near enough right now. Another aspect I think that could be included is requiring general educators to take more classes on special education, specificially on strategies on how to teach these student's with exceptionalities because they will all be in our classrooms. I am going into elementary education and for that reason I am planning to get a special ed minor, but many teachers do not have that minor so I think more classes should be required to take for teachers who are planning on going into general education. The last thing I believe would improve the teaching preparation is requiring students to take 2nd language electives, maybe switching some of the goal areas that are recommended for generals and instead of just offering the 2nd language actually require teachers to have to take a couple of those classes so they at least have a background of another language. The student's that I did my field experience with had spanish class two days a week and I think it would be very helpful if the main teacher also was familar with the language so they could not only learn it during those two class periods a week, but incorporate it into some of their everyday activities.

Group 3 Presentation

Group 3's presentation was on chapter 6, which is on the history of education. They started off the presentation with a short youtube clip that gave some expert opinions on how our education system needs to change to fit the way student want to learn and the new technology that today's society is comming out with. They also went over the different periods throughout history on our schools and how these periods have helped shape what our education system is today. I really enjoyed their interview. They interviewed two teachers that taught in California. They gave some really good advice for future teachers. One of the most important things I took out of it is always ask questions and take workshops. I think this is very important in order to grow and become a better teacher. At the end of their presentation they gave us a crossword on key terms over their powerpoint presentation. I think this group did a great job and their information will be helpful to know in the future.

"Unequal Education"

Tuesday in class we watched a video called- Unequal Education. It was about two schools in the Broncs and how unequal their education and opportunities for success were. The children in the upper class families went to one school. These children had a school full of highly certified and trained teachers. Most of the teachers that were hired were teaching in their specialty area. The school with the lower economic class students had very unqualified teachers, many of  whom were not teaching in their specialty area. This movie showed a dance teacher who was actually teaching their health class and a couple other classes that he had no background in. He had very little patience for the children and very low expectations. The kids at the upper class school had very encouraging teachers who expected them to succeed. They had many resources like microscopes, computers, and books. While the other schools struggled to even have enough books for each student. The movie also talked about after school activities that the schools offered. The upper class school had many community resources for after school programs where the children were in a safe environment, the lower class school had very few community resources that gave kids a safe environment for students after school. Many of the students there said they were scared and didn't feel safe in the area that their school was and where they were living. I think the differences between the schools are astounding, and we try to blame the kids for failing in school. With unqualified teachers and limited resources how can we expect kids to want to come to school and every gain the knowledge that they will need for college. The way we fund our schools today is obviously not working, the profits are only going to major schools, the schools that have the families with money. It's sad to see what happens in these lower economic areas and how little they actually receive.

21st Century Skills

We watched a clip about the global achievement gap. It was called 21st Century Skills by Tony Wagner. Wagner is the author of the Global Achievement Gap, in the clip he explained the list of seven survival skills like he did at the beginning of the book.
1.) Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
2.) Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by influence
3.)Initiative and Enterpreneurialism
4.) Accessing and Analyzing Information
5.) Effective Oral and Written Communication
6.) Curiosity and Imagination
7.) Agility and Adaptability
He feels that in order for students to be successful in life they need to have these seven important skills. He explains that most of our schools in the United States do not teach these types of skills. Our teachers simple teach students how to memorize and take test. This skills are more realistic and important for all students to learn. I think what he is saying is true, but we need to train our teachers differently so they can affectively teach our students these skills.

My Field Experience

I learned some great lessons throughout my field experience. Mrs.Eichten was so helpful and encouraging. I appreciate that she gave me the chance to get involved in the classroom and help out the students. She introduced some things  to me that I thought worked really great in her classroom.

1.) For reading the students did what was called "Daily Five." The purpose of the daily five is to build stamina and teach students to work independently while the teacher works with one of the three reading groups. She works with each group for about 30 min, she tried to place them in groups based on reading ability, this way she can give each group appropriate material based on where there reading level is at. The daily five- or what the students can pick from while the teacher is working with a group include:
*read to yourself  *read to someone  *work on writing  *listen to reading  *spelling/word work
Mrs. Eichten said you only want to introduce one daily five at a time so for the first month she just introduced read to yourself. The goal is to get them to be busy reading the entire time without having to be told to do so by the teacher. She said at the beginning the students would only last a couple of minutes, and then she would ring the bell and they would all have to go back to their seats. She wouldn't pick out anyone specifically but she would say would they were doing wrong and the kids would have to demonstrate how to do it the right way. She said after a few months she was amazed with how long they could work independently. For my field experience they did great with this, they knew exactly what they were supposed to be doing, this gives the teacher a great chance to work with a smaller group and in the end I think they all benefit from this.

2.) The teacher also used an award system. She would give out tickets when she would see someone doing something that they were supposed to. She also had reading goals, they were supposed to read at least 60 min every week. Everyday before class they would bring their folder in and if they read last night there parents would sign a calendar they had in their folder and they would get a ticket. She would aslo make them give back tickets if they were misbehaving or not listening. This really seemed to work because no one wanted to give a ticket back!! She had two prize boxes one for 50 tickets and one for 100 tickets, so they got to choose which box they wanted to pick from- obviously the 100 box had better prizes. I noticed that Mrs.Eichten didn't take away tickets as much as she would give them out, she told me this was because it's so important to point out what the child is doing right and make them feel good. This also helps encourage kids to behave properly

Field Experience: Day Five

This morning a little girl was telling me all week how she had made a present for me at home and she was going to bring it to me on Friday. She told me this morning that the forget it and she was pretty sad about that, but she told me it said "I will miss you," I told her that was so sweet and that I was going to miss them too. She drew me another picture instead since she forget her other present! They got to studey there spelling tests with a partner this morning before they took their test. Mrs. Eichten let me give them the test, I thought it was fun being up there and getting a little taste of what it would be like to be a teacher :) After they took their test they did their daily five reading again. The got to listen to the story "A Man on the Moon" on tape and then they took a test on the story and I helped Mrs.Eichten correct the tests while they watched a movie about space. She went over the tests with them after we got them all corrected so they could see which ones they got wrong. After that they looked at a chart the teacher put up on the projector, the chart had information about what weight you would be on different planets. They got to work on reading a chart and they also learned about gravity and why you would weigh less on the moon than on the earth.
In the afternoon they finished up their planet books and I helped Delany finish her book while they read over theres. She told me she really liked me and didn't want me to leave, how cute! After they finished the book they split into their math groups. The worked on word problems with money today. Mrs. Eichten had each of them do one on the board and they also went through a worksheet together since many students struggle with word problems right away but they did great. When math was over the students got to count up their tickets today and they could either get prizes from the 10's box or the 50's box, a couple of students choose the 50 box with the bigger prizes, but a lot of the students picked a few prizes from the 10s box. Mrs.Eichten and I doubled checked that they counted their tickets right for them, if they didn't we would have them recount them. After they finished up getting their prizes it was time for p.e. and it was the end of my field experience :(
The student's thanked me for helping out in their classroom and I asked me if I would teach them next year in 3rd grade....I told them I wish I could but I still had at least 3 more years left of school until I could become a teacher. Delany, a little girl who I had been giving a little extra help to all week gave me a big hug and said she would miss me, it's so great to see that you can make a difference in these kid's life and how much they look up to you. I'm sad that I have to leave the 2nd graders, but it was a great experience and I told them I might come back and visit some day if I don't have school!

Global Achievement Gap: Chapter 5

*Chapter five in the Global Achievement Gap is about motivating today's students and tomorrow's workers. Wagner starts off by talking about the concern about poor work ethic in our youth. Some people are concerned about this while others say it is not poor work ethic rather they are just differently motivated.

*Today's youth generation is full of technology. Today students always feel they need to be multitasking whether it be on the phone, computer, doing homeworking, listening to music. No one wants to do just one thing at a time anymore. This brings up the concern whether or not this is affecting student's ability to concentrate on one task and finish one task at a time.

*Wagner mentions how young people strive for immediate access to information. In turn people say that this makes us less patient and more demanding. Because the internet gives us answers so quickly and easily we rarely have to use the library and search for information, we can just simple google everything. College student's especially rely on technology, for the most part assignments and other important messages are sent to us through e-mail or on D2L- so in college being able to use the interent is dire.

*Since technology has grown so much throughout the years it's so important for us to take into consideration the different ways students are learning today. We need to incorporate this technology into our lessons because this is what they are familar with and technology will always be growing.

*I found one of Wagner's quoets from the book to really stick out, "Most students want learning to be active not passive." He's saying that most students actually do want to be challenged and they want to be given more opportunities from creativity and self-expression. We have to this by knowing our students and giving them the right mix of challenge and support. He also talked about the importance of a teacher-student relationship. It's important that our students feel like they can talk to us and relate to the teachers.

Field Experience: Day Four

During their "Daily Five" I worked with the little girl again on counting money, she thinks it's pretty great that she gets to spend sometime with me. One of the boys asked why he can't count money for me so I had him count out a couple for me. After teir daily five they read short story about the moon and they had to write down what the topic was and what the main idea of the story was. They have also been making a little booklet that has all the planets on it and they work on it throughout the day when they have a little free time. They worked on a little cursive after reading time was over, they learned how to write the "x" today. I was impressed with how well they handwritting was. After that they some more work on alphabetizing and how to put them in order when they all have the same first letter. During social studies they got to watch a short video on Washington D.C and learn some fun facts about the capitol. This afternoon we went over math again. Mrs.Eichten did problems on the board and I pulled aside students to go over the problems they got wrong on their worksheets from yesterday. The spanish teacher came in at the end of the day to teach them colors and names of animals in spanish. They played a fun singing game to help them learn their spanish and they also got to do a crossword in spanish.

Field Experience: Day Three

In the morning the student's did their "Daily Five" again while Mrs.Eichten took one of the reading groups. A couple of girls have been wanting to read to me all week and they finally got to read a book to me yesterday so they were pretty excited! Mrs. Eichten asked me if I could help on of the little girls who was struggle with counting money while she was with the reading groups. So me and the little girl sat on a back table and we used the big bucket of play money they have to help her count because it's easier for her to physically see it in front of her. She told me it was really important that she learns how to count money and I told her that was very true and the more we practice that better she will get at it :) She was so determined to learn how to do this, how can't you love helping a child who is so motivated. After reading time they went over some vocabulary words and they got to play a memory game with the words, if they found a match they would have to use that word in a nice descriptive sentence in order to keep the pair. I played with a little boy and he was pretty excited that he beat me TWICE ;) In the afternoon they had math and they worked on counting money again. Mrs. Eichten wrote some problems on the board and the students got to go work out the problems on the board. They were also working on the greater than and less than sign, I really like the way the teacher taught it. She would tell them the big number gets to dots : and the little number gets one dot . then you connect the dots to make an arrow. They really seemed to understand this, it seemed like a great way to explain it. For health they learned about the different parts of teeth and they took a group tests on it after the teacher reviewed the material.

Group Two Presentation

Group two did their presentation on Chapter five: Student Diversity-development, ability, and exceptionalities. First, they passed out a couple different examples of IEP's so we could see what they looked like. I thought this was great that they gave us these because we realized how important these plans are for the students and how much work needs to be done to make an IEP. After that they had us do an activity and we would stand up if the question applied to us, this was a good way to get us involved. They also showed us a clip in the eyes of a student with a learning disability. This gave us a good picture of what a student with a disability goes through in a normal day. The group covered alot about students with special needs and they also gave us some great information about how the teacher is involved in their life. I think this was a great presentation and something we all need to learn about because we will always have students in our classroom who struggle and it's important that we can give them support and be that caring teacher for the student.

Group One Presentation

I was part of group #1's presentation. Our presentation was on chapter four-Student Diversity. We started off our presentation with a short clip that was an overview of what we were going to be covering in our powerpoint. The main topics we covered were cultural diversity,multicultural education, and how this affects our students. We also had a group discussion on whether or not holidays should be celebrated in schools, which went over really well. Everyone had some great input which I really appreciated because I wasn't sure if I wanted to ask that question right aways because I didn't know if people would have dominant opinions on it. Dane interviewed his cousin who works in a diverse school setting and she did a great job giving him alot of input about how that impacts her classroom. We also showed a video called Did you Know, this video had alot of intersting statistics on our world. Finally, Stefanie presented our jepordy game. I thought this was a fun way to get the class involved. Overall I think our presentation went well, it was very helpful that everyone participaited and gave us their full attention. I think it was a lot of fun and a great experience for us future teachers. :)

Field Experience: Day Two

Today was my second day of my field experience. They started the day off with calendar again but instead of spelling words they worked on computers. They each had their own lab top and they worked on Microsoft Word. They already knew how to do a few things like font size, color, ect. Today they learned how to place their fingers on the "home row" and how to type "J" and "F" while keeping their fingers on the home row. They also learned how to use the space bar with only their right thumb. I Found it very interesting that 2nd graders are already learning about computers, but I think it's really important that they do because technology is changing so much. After computer they did the "Daily Five" reading and I got to listen to two students read to me, they were reading chapter books and did an excellent job reading. I also went over some students math tests with them one-on-one. They were working on money so the students who got some wrong on their tests I helped them fix their tests for them. After reading the teacher did an experiment to show how much sugar was in different kids of pop and they got to measure out the sugar into plastic cups so they could all see how many tsp of sugar they were drinking.
In the afternoon they worked on money counting money again. There are two 2nd grade classes in the school, so for math they split up, Mrs.Eichten has the group that needs a little extra help, which can be challenging at times but they just take things a little slower while the other group can be a little bit more challenged. I think this is a great idea to split them up because students learn at many different levels and they all have different needs.  After Math the spanish teacher came in for about 20 min. They went over colors and animals in spanish and a couple songs in spanish. It was great getting to see this kids learn spanish, I'm amazed by how much they know already and how fast they catch on to a 2nd langauge it's great! Today one little girl who was in Mrs.Eichten's math section asked me if I could come to their classroom because she's normally in the other half and she wrote me a letter that said "I like you." :) Little things like that make my day more than they even know. As much as we can make a difference in their lives they also make a huge difference in our lives.

Field Experience: Day One

Today was my first day of my field experience. I am doing my field experience in the school that I used attend , in Wabasso. I am in a 2nd grade classroom with my old 4th grade teacher who now teaches 2nd grade, Mrs. Eichten. In the morning they start off their day with the new spelling words of the week and calendar. After that they did reading and I got to listen to two students read me a book during this time, I also got to help them do a worksheet on pronouns that was given out when they were getting a little extra help in title one with their reading. So I explained to them what the worksheet was about and had them read the directions to me and I helped them do the problems that they missed. I'm really glad I chose Mrs. Eichten's class because you can tell she has a passion for her job and she really enjoys what she does. She did a great job making me feel welcome already and it's only the first day. Some of the students asked me if I was a mom because they said I looked familar, I thought that was kind of funny. I told them I was in college and I was going to become a teacher someday like Mrs.Eichten. One of the girls asked me if I was in Jr. High yet :) They are all very curious but I think that's what would make teaching the younger grades so much fun.

I went back after lunch in the afternoon and they first did math. They were working on counting money so I handed out and explained the worksheet to the student's after they finished up their tests while the teacher went over there tests. I realized that learning how to count money can be very challenging for some students and now that the coins are changing is extra hard to tell some of them apart, I know when I was in elementary we never worked with the half dollar coin and now they use that and they also try to work with different state coins so they are familar with all the types they might see. After math they did some social studies, they were learning about our United States capitol and some monuments in Washington D.C. They really enjoyed looking at the images of the monuments that Mrs. Eichten pulled up from the internet.
Overall I think my first day went pretty good. I'm glad I get to go for the entire day because I get to see what a full school day is like for the students and I get a taste of all the subjects. The kids asked me if I was coming back tomorrow and they were excited to hear that I would be there all week.

Global Achievement Gap: Chapter 4

Chapter four was about reinventing the education profession. Wagner talked a lot about how we need to make improvements on how our teachers are being prepared and evaluated for teaching.

I personal agree with one of his quotes in this chapter, "To improve students learning we much first work on improving teaching and the coaching of teachers." I think we all need someone to give us input and let us know how we are doing and what we could do better. That's the only way we will know if what we are doing is working and whether or not to change what we are doing.

He also talked about the evaluation systems our schools have. For the most part, principals come into the classroom to observe your teaching for maybe about 10-15 minutes then review the evaluation later on. Wagner talked about how he was excited for his first evaluation because he really wanted some insite on what he's doing and well and what he could work on, but he later found out all the evaluation was going to be was a bunch of cateogories were the principal circles satisfactory needs improvement and there's a few in between there. In no way did his principal give him valuable and useable feedback. This is a clear example of why evaluations and observations are not improving our teaching.

"Learning walks" were also mentioned in this chapter. He stressed the importance of talking about what we see and what we want for the students. Teachers need to do these learning walks and get insight from each other to find "good instruction" for their students. Along with the learning walks video taped evaluations were also mentioned so we could actually see ourselves teach or even go into other classrooms to help improve your teaching.

We also need a clear definition of rigor. What we excpect our students to know and be able to do. For example: colleges want essentially the same skills-critical thinking, but this brings up the question, how many teachers actually know how to teach that. When it comes to the k-12 classes there really is no clear definition of rigor, no essential goals for the students besides passing the standardized tests.

National Center on Universal Design for Learning

http://www.udlcenter.org/

We were introduced to the website, National Center on Universal Design for Learning, it's a site that has sets of curriculum development that gives all individuals equal opportunities to learn. It provides many different approaches to changing text and content to customize or adjusted to individuals needs. This tool can provide a fair and equal opportunity for all students to learn. This site also gives suggestions for appropriate goals, methods, materials, and assesments to fit each individuals needs.

I find the UDL site to be incredible, I think it will be a great tool for future teachers. Student's have so many different ways of learning and this tool can help those students who struggle more and give teachers some more ideas to help them improve their learning abilities. I'm so glad we were introduced to this because I don't think it's a very wide known site, but I believe all teachers should know about this and utilize UDL. Websites like these are what could help change our students futures in their education and hopefully help them to enjoy and look forward to learning everyday.

Intercultural Development Inventory

We took the Intercultural Development Inventory in class last week, this is a test that measures your level of intercultural competence. Intercultural competence is the capability to shift perspectives and adapt behaviors to cultural communities and differences. The test is based on five different levels: denial, polarization, minimization, acceptance, and adaptation. Adaptation is where we would all love to be as teachers because it is very important for us to accept and adapt to culturally diverse enviroments.

 For my test results my precieved orientation was 130.15, which is  right around adaptation on the scale. My developmental orientation was 120.44, which is in between acceptance and adaptation. I found my results to be very suprising. I actually thought I would score lower because I did grow up in a very small non-diverse town and school. I was happy to see that even though I don't have much experience with diversity I still have the ability to adapt and make adjustments. Although my score was pretty good I know I still have a long way to go to get to where I want to be in regards to cultural competence. There's always things you can improve on a couple things I could work on are increasing my knowledge in a foriegn language, increasing cultural self awarness and gain specific skills and knowledge about different cultures.

Speaking in Tongues

We watched the movie Speaking in Tongues yesterday in class. It was about Chinese immersion programs. I think these programs are great for children. At first I thought it might interfere with there learning of english, but from what I've seen it actually helps with their learning. Studies have actually shown that becoming bilingua expands our brain capacity. It is also said that learning another language taps into an area of the brain that usually isn't working at such a young age. In the United States some people seem to think we our children should just learn english, I think it's becoming more and more important every year that students become bilingual with the cultural that we live in. I think in the long wrong children who are bilingual will  have an advantage over others because our culture is becoming so diverse and there are so many languages being spoken in the United States.