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Certificate in Bilingual Education Supplementary

USA

What will I learn?

In addition to any program that you may be following, you may wish to obtain a supplemental certificate for teaching children whose native language is Spanish. You are required to be proficient in Spanish because you will be delivering content instruction in Spanish and in English.

English Language Learners (ELL), also referred to as children with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), have special needs. If instruction is in English-only from the very beginning, these children may fall behind and lose ground because initially they are totally confused. The bilingual certification courses are designed to aid these children in the content areas by using their native language for concept introduction and for clarification purposes. Bilingual courses provide the necessary information for modifications to the curriculum that ensure student success and provide a platform for developing a deep understanding of cultural realities that affect learning and everyday life. If you are working on a graduate degree, you may elect to add a supplemental certificate to teach in a bilingual setting. This certification requires fluent Spanish.

Graduate students may take these courses as electives if part of a master's degree plan. (Standard Elementary Professional Reading Specialist)

The courses required for this certification are offered online. The courses are ONLY offered during the summer sessions and they must be taken in sequence.

Candidates wishing to add the ESL or bilingual supplemental certification may apply to test during the student teaching semester. EC-6 and 4-8 programs prepare candidates for the ESL supplemental exam. Candidates for bilingual certification also must pass the TExES Bilingual Target Language Proficiency Test and the TExES Bilingual Supplemental exam.

Which department am I in?

James I. Perkins College of Education

Study options

Full Time (12-13 hours)

Tuition fees
US$14,562.00 per year
Start date

Expected August 2024

Venue

James I. Perkins College of Education

1936 North Street,

NACOGDOCHES,

Texas,

75965, United States

Entry requirements

For international students

To apply for a master’s degree program at SFA, you must meet one of the following requirements:

Be in your final year of undergraduate work;

Hold a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university; or

Have 95 or more semester hours of undergraduate work at SFA and be approved as an Overlap Student (an undergraduate pursuing graduate and undergraduate studies at the same time).

Generally, all applicants must have an overall undergraduate grade point average of 2.5 on a 4.0 scale and a 2.8 on the last 60 hours of undergraduate work. Minimum GPA requirements vary depending on your academic major.

You must score at least a 79 on the TOEFL, 6.5 on the IELTS, or 53 on the PTE.

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

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