Bilingual education

My Worst Education Experience “¿Itzel, Ya estas lista para la escuela?” this was the dreading question my mother would ask me every morning before going to school. I was a bilingual student in the second grade and I was struggling so much academically, which in the long run caused me to have internal struggles. I dreaded going to school every morning and having to put up with 8 hours of feeling like I was born stupid. My teacher, principal, and vice-principal did not have very good faith I was…

On page 176 of the text, Spring talks about how some American citizens feel about language education. He says that there are some that disapprove of schools trying to protect the languages of minority students. These people believe that English should be the only language, and that education should focus on students gaining English speaking abilities. Subsequently, there would be no preservation of minority languages. It really grinds my gears that there are people who think it is a good idea…

poorly French and English. Consequently, they cannot help their children learning any of the languages used in school. However in Moore’s research parents knew the benefices to offer that type of education to their children. They knew they had to be present and have a high involvement in their education. This problem is quite similar to the one American parents, who have children in immersion school, are facing. Therefore, the author will compare the solutions and techniques used in both…

Critical Essay 1 Even though the majority of students in the Rio Grande Valley are Hispanic, there is still diversity in our community. We need to be aware of the different socioeconomic backgrounds that students come from and make sure that we provide as much as we can to all of our students so that no one is singled out and embarrassed about needing help. For example; I remember being provided the tri-fold poster for the science fair in elementary school, then suddenly one year we had to get…

and self-improvement. There is the issue of the peer tutor not being the most qualified to help the ELL student. There is no requirement of knowing or being fluent in another language. This raises the key issue of how much does the ELL student’s education gets affected. For this reason, it is important to realize on why peer tutoring may not be the method that is the most…

United States capitalistic class society is social stratification. Marx Weber theorized that there is probability of a few factors such as: style of life, education, and intergenerational prestige as determinants of status (Weber 179,180). This evolves to the idea of social mobility; that acquiring more wealth, marrying into a higher class, and education will allow people to receive positive privileges and a better quality of…

the opinion that the greatest problem that minority groups (their study was on Mexican Americans) fail in school is “deficit thinking”. They define it to be the notion people have those individuals of color from low-SES backgrounds fail in their education…

K-12 education graduates should be expected to have acquired the fundamental skills and knowledge that will allow them to lead successful and fulfilling lives. There are eight key skills and content areas that I prepose all graduates should be expected to be comfortable with and excel to some degree in. Some of these areas are far more concrete than others, but each one is important to ensuring that graduates are prepared for the road that lay ahead of them. The eight goals of my education plan…

changes throughout the process of achieving an education. Some have drastic changes made in their lives while others see slight changes. When people think about how education changes them as a person they tend think of the common transformations, which include: gaining knowledge, having more opportunities and having a better income. But there is more than that; education is powerful enough to allow a person to become assimilated into the culture of education and language, gain the ability to…

and the administration to support change within the school. Another possible ally could be counselors in other schools in the community that are working on the same issues. In addition, the counselor could contact the National Association for Bilingual Education and collaborate with them to support change at the state level, such as not testing students’ IQ unless it is in the students’ home language. 
 Identify sources of resistance. What are the potential barriers to change?
Potential…