Binational Teacher Development: Teacher Ambassador Exchange Program, New Mexico, USA and Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Autor/in	Habermann, Mary Jean
Titel	Binational Teacher Development: Teacher Ambassador Exchange Program, New Mexico, USA and Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
Quelle	(1997), (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bilingual Education; Cultural Awareness; Educational Policy; Elementary Secondary Education; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Higher Education; International Cooperation; International Educational Exchange; International Programs; Literacy Education; Multicultural Education; Program Descriptions; Program Evaluation; Spanish Speaking; State Programs; Teacher Education; Teacher Exchange Programs; Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Internationaler Austausch; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Regierungsprogramm; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Mexiko
Abstract	The report describes the rationale for and history of an exchange program for Nuevo Leon (Mexico) and New Mexico bilingual education teachers. The program evolved from the need to help Spanish-speaking students maintain their own language and culture while in the United States. New Mexico's state policy concerning language-minority children and second language learning is traced from the first bilingual education policy statement in 1968 to standards for bilingual education and second language skills set in 1996. The general design of state-mandated bilingual multicultural education programs is also outlined. Policy developments emerging from an October 1991 border conference organized by the U.S. and Mexican departments of education are chronicled through the implementation of the second teacher exchange program in 1996. The exchange itself involves an orientation, teacher preparation of three mini-workshops (comments on home community and students, strategies for teaching English as a Second Language, and the New Mexico educational system) to be presented to their Mexican colleagues, and a paired exchange in which 12 New Mexico teachers and their Mexican teacher-partners live in each other's home and teach together for 2-week periods. Teacher responses to the program are summarized, and support materials are appended. (MSE)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC