In anticipation of a growing need for
qualified bilingual education teachers, state policymakers should consider strategies for increasing the supply of these teachers in the near and long term.
Connecticut's stringent certification requirements
for bilingual education teachers work against the goal of serving the needs of the state's large and growing ELL student population.
A 22 - page letter from the OCR states that the district's bilingual education program is less demanding than the general curriculum; that many
bilingual education teachers do not have appropriate Spanish - language abilities; and that some students receive services from paraprofessionals instead of certified teachers.
In the United States, D has worked as a Dual Language 2 - Way and
Developmental Bilingual Education Teacher in Milwaukee, served as an Instructional Literacy Coach, and is currently the Director of Bilingual / ESL Education for the School District of Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Cazares was one of a dozen current and
aspiring bilingual education teachers who gathered at Cal State Dominguez Hills to learn about the latest teaching methods and also, for many teachers like Cazares, to fill in gaps in their language skills.
This publication provides an international comparative perspective on teacher preparation in Mexico and the United States, with a special focus on the preparation
of bilingual education teachers.
Stated differently, prospective
bilingual education teachers in the United States lack proficiency because the educational infrastructure does very little to promote academic Spanish.
This publication was prepared by the Center for Bilingual Education and Research, College of Education, Arizona State University as a resource for Project Alianza — a consortium of organizations and universities working to improve preparation programs
for bilingual education teachers.
In the majority of states, there are also shortages of
bilingual education teachers and others who teach new English learners.
Dr. Soto Huerta was
a bilingual education teacher, and as a teacher specialist supervised bilingual education teachers and wrote curriculum for two school districts.
Bythe Turner works as
a Bilingual Education Teacher and school Native American Liaison for the Rio Rancho Elementary School at the Rio Rancho Public Schools.
She worked for 21 years for Tucson Unified School District in Tucson, Arizona as
a bilingual education teacher, assistant principal, coordinator of the Language Acquisition Department, and project manager in the Department of Student Equity.
Despite the fact that bilingual education was seriously hampered in California for nearly two decades, districts already report shortages of
bilingual education teachers.
Besides their teaching credential,
bilingual education teachers must have additional training.
More often than not, many educators say,
bilingual education teachers» grasp of academic language in their second language trails that of their academic language in English.