As I’ve written previously, our international students (ELL for the sake of brevity), predominately from China, come with needs and challenges and strengths that we are blessed with a chance to address. It truly is global missions brought to America.
As I promised in the previous article and failed to deliver until months later, here are some tips for teaching this population.
- Check your biases and prejudices
Though my intention in my first article was to chisel away at these things that exist in all of us, it bears a reminder for teaching this population. I have seen many wonderful Christians carry anger and hostility for our international students for merely being who they are: teenagers living thousands of miles away in a totally different culture, immersed in a school that is not using their primary language, all without daily parental contact.
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