The language curriculum you use has a deep impact on kids. If you use the textbook and worksheets, you bore them. However, if you choose something that is truly student-centered, you can get them truly engaged. It’s your choice.
Before you make your decision, if you haven’t yet done so, consider this:
In a recent op-ed for USA Today, Goldie Hawn addressed the toll that the Covid pandemic has taken on our children’s mental health. Hawn called the ongoing pandemic a “national trauma” and described the “heightened terror” the public currently feels to a kind of “existential dread”.
Hawn states:
“The Covid era has changed our children’s lives in far more real, tangible ways – social distancing, school closures, daily mask use. Kids are afraid of people, spaces, even the air around them – a level of constant fear not seen in decades.”
Hawn noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Surgeon General and the American Academy of Pediatrics “agree that the state of our children’s mental health is now at the level of a national emergency.” (italics mine)
“This tells us that as a nation we have failed our children,” she stated.
Do you want to be part of the problem or part of the solution? If you want to be part of the solution, then teach in a way that engages all your students, not just the few.