Bilingual education

(Pierangelo & Giuliani, 2017, p. 216). The majority of these tests are based on English-speaking culture and are not appropriate for students who are English Language Learners. As such, one way to avoid inappropriate and unnecessary testing for bilingual children, is by conducting dynamic assessments.…

foreigner in a dominant Western culture or a Westerner who looks like a foreigner. The American immigration and education policies, where language and culture homogenize, contribute to this identity crisis and impact the psyche of especially second generation youth striving to fit in. The Canadian…

primary goal in life is to build an education. To figure out what career we want to pursue. The texts by Sherman Alexie, Mike Rose, and Richard Rodriguez have all discussed how their background has influenced their education and upbringing to adulthood. “Blue-Collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose highlights how society determines the intelligence of workers based on their job or career. In Richard Rodriguez’s “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood,” his education and childhood was affected by his…

good education, what no longer makes him a minority. Education to him is not just the key to escaping poverty, but it is the key to enlightenment and entering the public world through assimilation while escaping the private world that minorities live in. Richard Rodriguez was born into a similar world that exists today amongst the Mexican community where darker skin is seen as unattractive and a danger in the United States. His assimilation process is heavily based on the pursuit of education,…

Adequacy in education is a huge problem in Mississippi. Throughout the history of the United States, the country has progressed when all of its constituents had a fair chance at the American dream, particularly in the field of education. Moreover, research shows that when citizens are well-educated, they create more jobs and better communities. Despite these facts, Governor Phil Bryant, along with Republican legislators have allowed their ideology to dictate their position on education resulting…

proportion of their population that is underserved. Right now, I already use my Spanish to help the Spanish speaking patients that we see at our clinic but my Spanish medical terminology is not as strong as I would like. Being able to get my medical education from a school so close to the border would help me become the…

One’s native language is a foundation for future leaning. If we think of language development as the concrete foundation of a building, it makes sense that it needs to be strong to sustain the stress of many tons of building materials that will be erected on top of it (Nieto, S., & Bode, P.,2008). As a Puerto Rican teacher, teaching in the United States to Spanish speakers and native English speakers it is important to know each students background, especially its culture and home language.…

role of language in learning in order to teach literacy skills to both native-speakers of English and English Language Learners. They distinguish five functional teaching roles in which educators need to know more about language than most teacher education programs provide: teacher as communicator, teacher as educator, teacher as evaluator, teacher as educated human being, and teacher as agent of socialization. The authors suggest that despite its importance for learning, many teachers know…

of education are bitter but the fruits thereof are sweet.” This had to be…

ABSS was nothing like I had imagined. I thought that it would be a school building similar to the ones here in the United States but it was not. The first thing I notice was that the school is location in a university campus. The second things that caught my attention was that although the school building is composed of only classrooms, there is still strict security around the area. The whole school is made up of at least seven small sections. There is the library section, the office section,…