Methods of Bilingual/Bicultural Content-Based Instruction and Curriculum Design

Catalog description

The course prepares teacher candidates to work effectively with linguistically diverse students across all content areas and to develop their students' language proficiency as needed for school success. In this course, students will study what it means --linguistically, cognitively, socially, and psychologically –to be a bilingual child. The course will be taught in Spanish and English and will focus on specific instructional strategies for bilingual children, various program models, and methods of assessment for bilingual learners in U.S. public schools.