Bilingual education

Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School is located at 333 East 151Street, in the Melrose neighborhood of the South Bronx. Smith is a limited unscreened, 9-12 grade high school where students earn a CTE- diploma (Regents Certified Diploma) that prepares them for jobs in the automotive and recently graphic arts industry. They can go directly to work in the field upon graduation. The four-story school takes up the entire radius of one city block. Although at one point it housed…

1. Cultural Awareness was something that I thought I had a grasp on before entering this class. I felt like I was a very open person, but after completing this class and looking back on the readings and assignments, I realized that there are several layers to cultural awareness. Nieto & Bode (2008) point out that “before we can ask schools to change in order to teach all students, we need to understand the differences that students bring with them to school” (p. 171). It is one thing to know…

I did an observation at Green Valley Elementary School, a small public school near my house. While observing I noticed that there isn’t a lot of family involvement in the classroom, this is understandable since having family members in the classroom might distract the students. However, parent involvement is encouraged as seen in various bulletin board and fliers located all around the school. The staff at the school was very friendly and open, the educators understood my questions and were not…

this article Tully is trying to shown the benefits that’s bilingual educators can have children as discusses the need for correct strategies to teach English language learners. Therefore this article takes a look into the “two…

foreign language courses to teach the culture and dialect. Students may take up the opportunity to achieve a minor or major in a foreign language, because they have a passion for it. Martin Espada and Richard Rodriguez, two men who grew up with bilingual hardships, portray the significance and passion they feel for bilingualism in their essays. Both authors base their support upon real life events and experiences, but their ideas beautifully contrast in a way that expresses the true meaning of…

help the education program. There are programs such as the additive bilingual that helps the students learn the best way possible by two-way or one-way immersion. Even though there are programs that help the student become bilingual and biliterate, we must look at the translanguaging, comprehensible input, affective, cognitive, and meta-cognitive strategies from the student. We must also validate the student’s culture and support their language for a minimum of 5 years. “An additive bilingual…

Education today, in my opinion, is not doing what it should be doing to ensure that America is actually living up to what it is known for...the land of opportunities. I believe that education should be about an empowering experience that helps students discover their passions, fosters their critical thinking skills, promotes an environment that accepts diversity, and encourages students to apply to skills to the outside world. This should be he purpose of American public schooling because it…

Professional Development BE5013 Mary Beth Sharko American College of Education Part One: Planning Professional Development Who will attend your workshop? I will invite all Covington School staff members to participate in the professional development workshop. What are your goals for the workshop? What current event topic related to immigration or ESL/bilingual education will you share? How can teachers apply what you present to their own situation? Summarize the…

Code-Switching In order to effectively use the home language as a tool in the classroom it is imperative to understand the different language practices. Children growing up bilingual use their linguistic resources in a variety of ways, and one of these many ways is code-switching. Code-switching is the alternate use of two languages. It can occur within the discourse, between sentences or even within sentences (Brisk & Harrington, 2007). One of the most common types of code switching is…

During my observation of an ESL push-in classroom, I have come across with many pedagogical issues and concerns that were brought in the Methods of Teaching class. Such topics include the use of cooperative Learning, classroom setting, adapting lesson plan and differentiated instructions by incorporating visuals, hands-on activities, simulations of real life situations etc so that students can nurture their skills academically, linguistically, socially as well as emotionally. The…