Student Work 3/19

This student is an ELL student who was not able to complete any of the division problems correctly. My mentor teacher asked me to sit with him one on one to help him understand division with remainders. At first I was a little nervous because he is an ELL student and I felt that the task at hand would be quite difficult. As soon as we sat down it was apparent to me that no work was shown on how he got his answers. This is when I got a separate sheet of lined paper and told him that he could use that sheet to solve the problems. After allowing him the extra space to think, he did perfectly fine and proved to me that he understood the idea of a "remainder". 

Questions:
1) Are other ELL students having the same issue of unclear instructions and limited work space?

2) Are students being taught only 1 strategic "right" way to solve division problems that they do not seem to comprehend? 

3) The worksheet itself says that students are allowed to use counters, but are the students allowed to use counters during class? 

To find answers to these questions, I think it would be best to ask my mentor teacher. She could provide me answers to whether or not other students have the same issues, especially ELL, if the students are allowed to use counters, and how she instructs them to complete the worksheet (providing 1 example, no examples?). 

I could also ask to see the other students' worksheets to see whether or not they have their work written out to show evidence that they know what they are doing.