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Advanced Certificate in Bilingual Education

USA

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What will I learn?

This advanced certificate provides a New York State Bilingual Extension for graduate students who already possess an initial or professional certificate (from Birth-Grade 12 including teachers of Students with Disabilities and for Teachers of Students with Speech and Language Disabilities). This program of study prepares candidates to teach in bilingual settings where two languages are used as the mediums of instruction. The advanced certificate provides candidates with a solid foundation in the theory and practice of bilingual education; courses include the following topics: bilingualism, research, methodology, biliteracy, content instruction in bilingual settings and multicultural education.

Student Learning Outcomes

Understand the major concepts of bilingual education theory and practice across developmental levels including the history of bilingual education (InTASC, Standard 4)

Understands and inquires about the development and growth of a variety of emergent bilingual students across developmental levels and school contexts (InTASC, Standard #1)

Able to translate the most current bilingual education theories to practice that supports the development of emergent bilinguals across developmental levels and content areas. (InTASC, Standard 4)

Recognizes and respects the group and individual differences of emergent bilingual students and uses these differences as resources in student learning (InTASC, Standard #2)

Identifies, modifies, and executes practices that ensure that both the physical and interactional learning environment supports a healthy attitude towards language diversity and language learning and supports emergent bilinguals’ overall academic and social development (InTASC, Standard #3)

Understands how to support students’ language development alongside overall academic and social development through the use of their entire linguistic repertoire and multiple modalities (including play, art, digital literacies, etc). (InTASC, Standard 5)

Thoughtfully plans developmentally-appropriate and culturally sustaining pedagogy that results in rigorous learning of language and content (InTASC, Standard 6)

Can adapt and utilize a range of informal assessment tools to accurately assess emergent bilinguals’ growth in both content area skills as well as language (InTASC, Standard 6)

Can develop and implement instructional strategies that take into account the multiple dimensions of the bilingual learning (including linguistic diversity, cultural background, race, socioeconomic background) and honors and builds off students’ resources (InTASC, Standard 7)

Structures experiences so that bilingual students can build and develop metacognitive and metalinguistic practices to support bilingualism and learning in general (InTASC, Standard 8).

Engages in frequent and collaborative professional development experiences that, at times, cuts across grade bands and languages, to develop an identity as a bilingual practitioner (InTASC, Standard 9).

Collaborates with other colleagues to discuss, share, and lead to improve the educational lives of emergent bilingual students alongside the collaboration of families and community members (InTASC, Standard 10).

Which department am I in?

School of Education

Study options

Full Time (15 credit hours)

Tuition fees
USD $855 per credit
Start date

Expected August 2024

Venue

School of Education

2111 James Hall,

BROOKLYN,

New York,

11210, United States

Entry requirements

For international students

Applicants must have a minimum undergraduate grade point average of 3.00.

Applicants must demonstrate proficiency in both English and in a language other than English (the language in which they seek the extension). Proficiency of the language other than English is determined by the Bilingual Education Assessment (BEA) which is offered by New York State. International applicants for whom English is a second language are required to pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) with a score of 550 on the paper-based test or 213 on the computer-based test or 79 on the internet-based test, before being considered for admission.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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