All of my students are Korean. If anybody has one parent of another ethnicity, I am unaware of it.
There isn’t very much individualization that I have to do. In one of my reading and writing classes, there is a student who I have to spend extra time helping with her compositions. It’s challenging to do so when many others start asking me questions like ‘What is this called?’ while drawing whatever it is on the whiteboard, and the fact that the student speaks too quietly, and rarely.
Small to medium. My smallest class is one student; the largest is nine students.
I haven’t noticed any.
One of my students in my basic class really needs improvement in his handwriting. In his notebook that he does his homework in, his mom writes the voca words and memo sentences for him and then he writes them. I appreciate what she does. Another form of parental support that I receive is that parents here know how to correct their children’s misbehavior. So, when there is a problem, I tell a Korean co-teacher about it, she calls the parent, and then the next time I see that student, there is no more misbehavior.
They are definitely more participatory. Our policy is that students should do 80% of the speaking.
In some classes though, middle school ones, I end up having to answer most of my own questions because almost all of the students can’t get themselves to say an answer. They are afraid that if they say the wrong answer, their classmates would laugh at them.
