If I were a good teacher, the kids who didn’t speak English would speak English. If I were a good teacher, all the problems that these kids faced would be solved in my 46 minutes a day with them.

6. Acknowledge Teacher’s Time: Recognise that teachers have busy schedules. Be patient and allow reasonable time for a response. Avoid sending multiple follow-up messages in quick succession. 7.

Irrespective of whether it’s daycare, preschool, primary or high school, the news your child doesn’t like their new school, teacher, class – or all of the above – is always tough.

Mrs. Brown, my English as a second language teacher, was eating lunch at the other end of the classroom and smiled knowingly. She must have been amused by my tenacity.

She is “90% sure” she will go back to Africa, but first she wants to graduate from a four-year college. She took Buchheit’s ESL class in the fall of 2011. “She lets you put your mind together before ...