Bilingual Mandate Challenges Chicago's Public Preschools

Autor/in	Zehr, Mary Ann
Titel	Bilingual Mandate Challenges Chicago's Public Preschools
Quelle	In: Education Week, 30 (2010) 13, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Public Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; Bilingual Education; Preschool Teachers; Immigrants; English (Second Language); Bilingualism; Preschool Children; State Boards of Education; Early Childhood Education; Spanish; Native Language; Preschool Education; California; Illinois; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Bilingualismus; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Spanisch; Kalifornien
Abstract	Administrators in the Chicago public schools are seeking to strike the right balance between providing guidance and permitting flexibility as they put in place the nation's first state mandate for providing bilingual education to preschoolers. New rules approved by the Illinois state board of education in June flesh out a January 2009 change that essentially extends the same requirements for educating English-language learners in K-12 public schools to 3- and 4-year-olds in public preschool centers. The new rules say that if a public preschool center has at least 20 students who speak the same language, it must offer bilingual education. By July 2014, they also say, all lead preschool teachers with ELLs in their classrooms must have an endorsement in bilingual education or English as a second language. Currently, many Illinois preschools rely on teacher assistants to provide native-language support to youngsters. The rules come at a time when states, such as California and Texas, with large numbers of children from immigrant families are focusing more on how to support the education of pre-K English-learners. But not everyone agrees that Illinois has taken the right path in its quest to extend bilingual services to younger children. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10