Equity, the biggest challenge in a multilingual teaching context can be ensured by avoiding vertical teaching (Freire,1970). To me, teaching is sharing! As teachers, we share our knowledge, experiences, perceptions and intuition to guide our learners. ‘The moment we use our possessions to any good purpose ourselves, the instinct of communicating that use to others rises side by side with our power. If you can read a book rightly, you will want others to hear it; if you can enjoy a picture rightly, you will others to see it’-Ruskin. I have the same thoughts as James (2013) has in mind that a classroom is where students could sit around a table with a teacher who would talk with them and instruct them by a sort of tutorial or conference method. Thus, each of the student would feel encouraged to speak up.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. - Aristotle
Students Sharing can be structured too. 'As the examples below show, sharing can be focused on either an academic or a social topic and structured in various ways'. The following are the three basic sharing formats:
Around-the-circle sharing
Partner sharing
Dialogue sharing
"Students who regularly practice sharing benefit in two important ways. First, they build a caring, respectful community as they learn about—and respond to—each other’s ideas and concerns. Second, students bolster their competence in the key communication skills fundamental to all learning—skills that will help them meet not only the rigors of the Common Core State Standards but also the demands of daily life in the globally inter-connected 21st century" .
Reference:
Sharing Leads to Learning: Responsive Classroom. https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/sharing-leads-to-learning/