第一部分 必修1 Module 2　My New Teachers-（达标训练）【导学教程】2024旧教材老高考英语新编大一轮总复习（外研版）

[对应学生用书P374] Ⅰ.阅读理解 A As the daughter of immigrants, Vanida Chanthaphone's primary language at home was Lao. At 5, she learned to speak English. But she didn't know how to read and write—let alone how to fit in at school or communicate with classmates. Mrs. Lewis，Chanthaphone's second­grade teacher, changed everything. She taught her students that it was OK if they did not know English and that it was all right for them to use words in their home language to explain how they were feeling or thinking. Chanthaphone got more and more confidence and wanted to do what her teacher did in the future. Now, at 26, Chanthaphone is an English teacher at Fort Worth ISD's William Monnig Middle School. Like Mrs. Lewis, Chanthaphone aims to help her non­English­speaking students to gain the confidence they need to fulfill their potential in life. At the beginning of each school year, Chanthaphone recounts her story to her new classes. She tells them she knows what it feels like not to want to participate in class. She reminds them that she once sat in her seat like them and felt different because of her upbringing. But she stresses that's what makes each of them special. Her students, though, are usually unconvinced. She has to take out photos of her graduating college and tell them about her parents and what her school was like. Then it finally clicks. In the classroom, Chanthaphone allows students to communicate in whichever way they feel most comfortable. For some，it may be raising their hands and voicing their thoughts. For others, it may be writing their thoughts on a piece of paper and handing it to Chanthaphone. However, Chanthaphone does encourage her students to go out of their comfort zone. She wants them to work with students they don't know because teamwork and collaboration (协作) with unfamiliar people are important. “I've always wanted to be the teacher who supports students and advocates them in and outside the classroom，” Chanthaphone said. “When I get notes or se