Bilingual education

Education: 1. With the highly changing demographics of the American public school system, is it fair to expect the education of multilingual districts, to face the expenses that require highly qualified bilingual teachers? What if your community has several minorities groups, with uniquely different languages? Would each classroom be required to maintain 3 or more professional educators, to fulfill the language barriers that exist? Most communities say yes! For thousands of years, bilingual…

Monolingual vs. Bilingual Education and Public Schools The United States is currently experiencing large influxes of immigrants in the public education system. Since the majority of these immigrant children speak a language other than English, schools are faced with the burden of educating them in content, language, and culture, with few effective resources. The Supreme Court places immigrant children in the public education system with their ruling that all persons, regardless of documentation,…

Cultural Awareness As a future teacher I have learned it is my job and duty as an education to understand, respect and acknowledge every student 's culture. As stated by Gay, “Culture encompasses many things, some of which are more important for teachers to know than others because they have direct implications for teaching and learning. Among those are ethics groups’ cultural values, traditions, communication, learning styles, contributions, and relational patterns”(Gay, 2002, p.107). My…

judicial actions. (Diaz-Rico, 2014). Congress and the state and federal courts have supported bilingual education and provided legal protections for the rights of non-English- speaking students around the United States. However, according to the Florida Department of Education, the state of Florida was in need of the Consent decree in order to comply with the federal and state laws regarding the education of English language learners (ELL) or English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). The laws…

“La education es muy imporante. Es una de las cosas mas sagradas que puedes tener. Alguien te puede quitar tu casa, tu carro, y hasta tus calzones. Pero nadie te puede quitar lo que tienes en la cabeza. Tu education y experencias. Entonces ten la mente libre y abierta para siempre aprender." These are the words my mom would always recite to me as I was growing up at the moments I felt a great desperation at school. I was a bilingual student trying to learn and read English. At the same time I…

concretely, according to Cohen (1975), bilingual education is the use of two or more languages as a means of instruction in a part of the school curriculum or in all. According to this author, bilingual education will be the teaching “in” two languages and not the teaching “of” two one or another language. And of course, it is important to highlight that several studies suggested that bilingual children show advantages in…

reference to choice of a national language" (Heath, 1995, p.179). This tolerance of foreign languages, along with mass immigration, has enriched the linguistic diversity in the United States. Not surprisingly, this diversity has also made multilingual education an important component of American schooling—most American high schools and universities require students to learn a foreign language. Scholars and educators have promoted several methods for language instruction, two of which are…

implemented. Zanette Johnson co-founded a K-12 indigenous school and a teacher education program. Louise Lockard, Velma Hale, and Jennie DeGroat are professors at Northern Arizona University they teach bilingual education and advocate for endangered languages. The United States lumps the minorities into a one size fits all category which created the NCLB No Child Left Behind act that act hinders the learning of minorities’ education.…

applying for the Project AMABLE grant for three reasons: (1) to help fund my education through the CSUMB School Psychology Program, (2) to provide me with enhanced faculty support throughout the program, and (3) to provide me with a platform with which I will be able to work directly with migrant and bilingual learners. This third reason is especially important to me because I understand the importance of bilingual education. I am currently only fluent in English, but as a Hispanic American and…

how to read? Or calculate a solution? There are questions that we all ask and it might be almost the same, but, “what is the purpose of receiving an education?” Through my primary years of education, I often found school tedious and a misuse of time. I waited for the day when I would graduate from high school, only…