Ms. Lara relocated to Boston from Puerto Rico in 2014, where she taught as a First Grade Two -
Way Dual Immersion Classroom Teacher at the Amigos School in Cambridge, MA for two years.Before moving to Boston, Ms. Lara taught First Grade in Colegio Puertorriqueno de Ninas in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico for eight years.
Not exact matches
As old - style bilingual programs are phased out, such «
dual -
immersion» or «two -
way» bilingual schools are gaining in popularity.
States and communities are embracing and re-branding a bilingual strategy in promising
ways with policymakers showing particular interest in the
dual immersion model.
Meanwhile, schools have adapted and increasingly found
ways to provide a greater range of instruction in foreign languages typically by offering
dual immersion programs.
Perceptions of principals and teachers in New Mexico: A comparison between staff in schools with two -
way dual language
immersion programs and those with other bilingual programs.
For more information about the
Dual / Two
Way Immersion program, visit the Two
Way Immersion website.
Four other impact networks: 1) P21 Exemplars (75 schools nationwide) http://www.p21.org/exemplar-program-case-studies/1255-about-the-exemplar-program 2) Participate Schools (100 global and
dual language schools, based in North Carolina) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgI2RGM8wSw 3) The Two -
Way Immersion Network for Catholic Schools (17 schools nationwide) http://www.twin-cs.org/ 4) XQ Super Schools (10 high schools nationwide)
Both one -
way, as well as two -
way,
dual - language bilingual programs often fall short in legitimating the practices of bilingual Americans, for they have been built following an
immersion pedagogy that might serve English - speaking majority children well, but that does not build on the entire language repertoire of bilinguals.
Now called two -
way dual - language education or two -
way immersion in an effort to silence the word «bilingual,» the new proposal required that half of the students be learners of English and the other half be learners of the language other than English (Lindholm - Leary, 2011).
However, recently,
dual language
immersion (DLI) programs have emerged in the country as effective
ways to bring together language minority and language majority speakers in school settings with the goal of bilingualism and bi-literacy for all.