Bilingual-Bicultural Education
Learn to design curriculum relating to the cognitive, linguistic, social, and emotional development of bilingual students.
Add this certificate to your resume and demonstrate specialized field knowledge of second language acquisition. You’ll learn the linguistic features of the various languages used throughout courses and recognize the importance of diverse learners within the context of school and community. Build skills in working effectively with linguistically diverse students across all content areas and how to develop students' language proficiency as needed for school success.
Program Details
Many Blugolds seek out additional opportunities to learn about other cultures. Ranging from week- to semester-long, these faculty-led experiences focus on a variety of interesting topics and often lead to new perspectives that can be life-changing.
Our Language Lab and the Roma Hoff Instructional Resource Center are filled with sound and video programs, films, games, and computer software to help you practice what you learn in class.
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Coursework throughout the certificate will train you to work in two languages of instruction. This certificate program requires 18 credits; you must complete all of the courses in the certificate with a C or higher.
Here are a few courses in Bilingual-Bicultural Education at UW-Eau Claire.
ES 283
Supporting Multilingual Learners
This course is designed to support educators in universally designing classroom instruction to meet the needs of multilingual learners. Participants will learn about strategies to increase engagement for all learners, designing assessments for learning, and selecting and evaluating diverse literature for young people. In addition to classroom instructional practices, the course explores resources for connecting families, communities, and schools.
ES 405
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Designed to help school teachers and others recognize the language difficulties of non-native speakers and teach effectively the sounds, basic structures, and vocabulary of English. Stresses development and use of practical techniques and materials based on second-language acquisition principles.
ES 411
Methods of Bilingual/Bicultural Content-Based Instruction and Curriculum Design
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 âto 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.
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