Questioning is an essential part of our daily lives. Questions make us think and also act upon our thinking. One question I am currently spending a lot of time with is how can our school develop a school culture that provides equal learning opportunities and a supportive learning environment to Emergent Bilingual Students (EBS)?. This question is complex due to several interconnected factors and variables. Therefore, it can be categorized as a wicked problem. As a current ELL teacher and as someone who was once an Emergent Bilingual Student (EBS), this question is significant to me on both professional and personal levels. We all know that the population of EBS is rapidly growing, and I think that we have to constantly question our classroom and school culture to monitor educational equity. I believe that building a school culture that provides equal learning opportunities and a supportive learning environment to EBS would not only reduce the achievement gaps but also help Emergent Bilinguals reach their fullest potential. This week, to better understand and gather possible solutions to my wicked problem, I created a survey. Here’s the link to my 14-question survey, and I would greatly appreciate it if you could spend 10 minutes to share your experience working with Emergent Bilingual Students. Designing a survey was harder than I thought. After reading the article, Survey Design Best Practices, I revised, rearranged, and iterated my questions to make them engaging and yield useful data. While I wanted to collect as much information as possible, I tried to keep my questions simple. I limited the use of open-ended questions and even made some optional as this type of question usually takes more time and energy to answer and also might lead to survey fatigue. Resource:
Pixabay. (2017, March 05). Question mark illustration [digital image]. Retrieved from https://www.pexels.com/photo/ask-blackboard-chalk-board-chalkboard-356079/
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