Teachers are keen kidwatchers and can learn a lot about children through descriptive processes. A descriptive stance allows them to build on children’s strengths, interests, and all components of development. This is a teaching stance that recognizes all children want to be seen and have a deep desire to construct meaning. 

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Good teaching is also grounded on developing complex understandings about families’ funds of knowledge. Teaching is, without a doubt, an intellectual endeavor. Good teaching requires that one understands a child’s sociocultural background and linguistic practices. It requires that one takes the perspective that bilingualism IS an asset and the norm.  In addition, this stance entails a love for learning about content that matters. This is a stance that invites teachers to ensure that issues of social justice can be addressed in ways that are relevant and meaningful to all children, particularly emergent bilingual children.