Prompt 2- Claude Goldenberg: 3rd graders?!

At my school, the way that my intervention is set up is that we go into the school, sign in, and head to a teachers room. There we look at what our peers have done over the week, grab our materials for what our lesson is going to consist of, and then we head to our classrooms to enlighten these students. One Friday, as we walked into the teachers room, the adjoining art classroom was chanting things in spanish. The teacher was only speaking spanish, and the children only responding in spanish.
I had gone onto our Info works, and searched my school, and the following information very much surprised me. It was said that 75% of the students were not receiving any ESL(English as a Second Language) or Bilingual teachings, and 25% were receiving just bilingual teaching. So none of these students were ESL's? It was very cool to see that these students were so ahead of what I thought I was going to see on this chart!
But I can relate these bilingual students to the theorist Claude Goldenberg. His article “ Teaching English Language Learners” is all about ELL's and ESL's in school and how to teach them, and what will help them learn multiple languages. He says “Children learning to read in their home language promotes reading achievement in the second language.” These children at my school have learned both their home language and a second language, which is fabulous! Goldenberg also says that “teachers need to be effective and how the teachers need to help the students more, that English is not their first language, and that they might not use it unless in school.” These teachers that I see do a fantastic job with these kids. I see that they are respectful, and are very into what they are doing in class. I can't imagine being a ESL teacher, and having students speaking in two different languages all at different levels. According to the info works, the ESL teacher is doing an amazing job to have all 25% of ELL's as ESL's!
Another thing that Goldenberg says is that children learn from their experiences and if it gets difficult they will get motivated to strive to learn it. I know that that is how I strived to do something better. If I couldn't do it, I would try and try again until I mastered what I was doing. I was very much a motivated child because of my experiences. A few of the children in my class are like that as well, and it is very fascinating to see them achieve their personal goals.