TELL 400 - Foundations of Bilingual Education

This is the first of seven courses that lead to an ESL endorsement. This course introduces teachers to a conceptual framework for educating diverse learners called Inclusive Pedagogy. This inquiry-based framework supports teachers in learning about students as well as guiding their professional growth.

Through this course, teachers identify how their attitudes, assumptions, and beliefs impact their interaction with students. They also focus on the historical and current educational and political realities of policy, programs, and practice for language minority students.

Finally, this course identifies the multiple factors impacting the school experience of language minority students, including cognitive/academic (school and teacher practices), social/affective (personal, family, community), and linguistic development issues.

• Creates an awareness in teachers about their sociocultural identity in comparison to their students.
• Focuses on federal, state, and local educational policy and their impact on classrooms and students of diversity.
• Introduces the cognitive, social/affective, and linguistic aspects of ELLs' development.
• Presents key strategies for accommodating instruction and assessment for linguistically diverse students.

Program Materials List

Items marked with an asterisk (*) must be purchased from the publishers.

Foundations of Bilingual Education—Instructional Guide ($40)
Foundations of Bilingual Education—Video Segments (obtained via licensing agreement)
Bilingual/ESL Program and Practices Case CD-ROM ($25)
*Myths and Realities: Best Practices for Language Minority Students by Samway and McKeon (Heineman Education 1-800-793-2154) ($16)
*ESL Standards for Pre-K—12 Students by TESOL, Inc. (888-891-0041) ($17)