Bilingual Education Certificate for Catholic School Educators

The Bilingual Education Certificate (BEC) prepares teachers in Catholic schools to better serve students with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, especially those learning in bilingual settings.

1. Foundations and Methods of Bilingual Education
   • Participants will learn to teach diverse student populations from a value-added perspective. This course frames the relevance of bilingual / DL education and its core components.   
2. Second Language Acquisition & Content and Language Integration
   
   • Participants will acquire the necessary knowledge of second language acquisition and develop the skills to teach bilingual learners content and language standards simultaneously.
     
3. Literacy, Writing, and Reading for Bilingual Learners
   
   • Participants will develop and practice the skills to teach writing and reading using genre-based models and a unit sequence that includes vocabulary development.
     
4. Framing Instruction Within Sociocultural Competence
   
   • This course brings all learning together, leading participants to complete the certificate with comprehensive instructional units which they can implement in their instruction.

Together in community through synchronous and asynchronous sessions, participants will discuss readings, complete assignments, and consider how content can be applied in their respective school settings. Areas of focus and topics addressed throughout the certificate program include: the social and political contexts of language use and instruction; enhanced ways of teaching language through content; bilingual language arts and literacy instruction; and text selection for multilingual youth

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