Thanks for the well wishes. I am feeling a bit better and my paper is resembling something that could possibly-in-the-near-future be a paper worth turning in.
Two-Way Bilingual education and how it's a good thing.
With Two-Way Bilingual Ed, Spanish kids are mixed with English speaking kids and they recieve instruction in core subjects in both languages. In the beginning, instruction is primarily in Spanish, but in the best programs, the Span:Eng ratio changes by about 10% each year, in 1st grade the Span:Eng ratio would be 80:20, by 5th grade it'd be 50:50, and by eighth grade it'd be 20:80
The main goals are for the students to become fluent and literate in BOTH languages and to promote multi-cuturism and global awareness, etc...
Benefits: For minority laguage students: 1. do not have to wait to learn subject matter until they've learned English 2. they don't have to leave their home language at the door 3. can recieve parent help/involvement in school work like everybody else
For majority language students: 1. become bilingual -oral and written 1a. this will help them as adults too if they live in areas with diverse populations (likely since they current live where there is need for a bilingual program) 2. Have a better understanding of different culutres.
That's the gist...pretty hippie I know, but the studies done show that these programs are successful and the students preform at or above grade level in both languages. Pretty cool.
That's pretty neat. I'm all for getting kids more fluent in more languages - loads of benefits. There's something intrinsically empathetic about learning another language that makes it a very humanizing experience in addition to a challenge to the brain.
So are there two teachers in these programs, one English and one Spanish? Does that create any issues of classroom management?
No, in the programs I've looked at there is one teacher who is fluent in both languges. One school I looked at that is model school requires all the teachers to hold special credentials and they go to a bilngual educators conference every year and do other staf dev. thnigs.
If a school did have two seperate teachers, I would assume they would just work together much like team teachers in jr. high or high school do.
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Two-Way Bilingual education and how it's a good thing.
With Two-Way Bilingual Ed, Spanish kids are mixed with English speaking kids and they recieve instruction in core subjects in both languages. In the beginning, instruction is primarily in Spanish, but in the best programs, the Span:Eng ratio changes by about 10% each year, in 1st grade the Span:Eng ratio would be 80:20, by 5th grade it'd be 50:50, and by eighth grade it'd be 20:80
The main goals are for the students to become fluent and literate in BOTH languages and to promote multi-cuturism and global awareness, etc...
Benefits:
For minority laguage students:
1. do not have to wait to learn subject matter until they've learned English
2. they don't have to leave their home language at the door
3. can recieve parent help/involvement in school work like everybody else
For majority language students:
1. become bilingual -oral and written
1a. this will help them as adults too if they live in areas with diverse populations (likely since they current live where there is need for a bilingual program)
2. Have a better understanding of different culutres.
That's the gist...pretty hippie I know, but the studies done show that these programs are successful and the students preform at or above grade level in both languages. Pretty cool.
That's pretty neat. I'm all for getting kids more fluent in more languages - loads of benefits. There's something intrinsically empathetic about learning another language that makes it a very humanizing experience in addition to a challenge to the brain.
So are there two teachers in these programs, one English and one Spanish? Does that create any issues of classroom management?
No, in the programs I've looked at there is one teacher who is fluent in both languges. One school I looked at that is model school requires all the teachers to hold special credentials and they go to a bilngual educators conference every year and do other staf dev. thnigs.
If a school did have two seperate teachers, I would assume they would just work together much like team teachers in jr. high or high school do.
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