Patricia Stevens
Patricia Stevens
levels
Integrating everyone at different levels has been a challenge, but it's not insurmountable.
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The students turn a Y into a J. I had a well-spoken professor tell me he went to 'jail' when he meant to tell me he attended 'Yale' University.
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I was one of three children and the only one who could speak Spanish. I was very close with my grandmother and was lucky to be sent on trips to stay with her growing up.
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Most of the children are already learning English in school, so they can take the time to play with each other. It's a real family atmosphere.
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I was fortunate. When I graduated high school my parents couldn't afford to send me to Paris, so they sent me to 'the Paris of the Americas,' Mexico City.
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It's beautiful to watch a couple learn something new together.
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They don't have those sounds in their vocabulary, so they have been practicing a bunch of words beginning with WH and TH.
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I was always enthralled in Latin American art. I even got to work on a collection of Latin women self-portraits. They were so beautiful.
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He's reading Hemingway and writing his life story. It's so gratifying to see him reading Hemingway.
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I asked the students to take their own photos. I love art, and it's really inspiring to see what they see through their own eyes, to view the world as they do.