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The foundation for the Project BESITOS proposal is the nationally-recognized, Professional Developement School (PDS) Program, in the College of Education, at Kansas State University.
Students in the PDS Program at KSU obtain their Bachelor of Science Degree/Certification in either Elementary or Secondary Education through curriculums grounded in four core areas:
General Education:
The General Education Core emphasizes courses in five critical disciplines: Communications, Humanities, Social Science, Natural Science and the Quantitative Sciences.Professional Education:
The Professional Education Core emphasizes courses in Teaching as a Career, Foundations of Education, and Media/Technology.Professional Component:
The Professional Component emphasizes Courses in three blocks
- Teaching Skills-courses such as Ed. Psychology, Core Teaching Skills, Field Lab & Exceptional Children.
- Teaching Methods-courses such as Content & Reading Methods and Content Area Math Labs
- Teaching Participation-courses such as Interpersonal Relations and Multicultural Education
Area of Concentration:
The Primary Concentration Core emphasizes such courses as Bilingual Education, ESL Education, Mathematics, Languages, Sciences, Business, Family and Consumer Sciences, History, Sociology and English.The participants of Project BESITOS will emphasize the Bilingual Education area of concentration during their professional preparation via the PDS Program at KSU. In addition to certification in either Elementary or Secondary Education, the bilingual area of concentration leads to an endorsement in bilingual Education and emphasizes teachers' professional preparation for cross-culturally sensitive, Bilingual practices through the following courses:
EDCI 720 ESL/Dual Language Methods
An exploration of contemporary approaches, methods, and strategies for the appropriate instruction of second language learners. Also provided is a foundational perspective on ESL/Dual Language approaches, including the communicative, cognitive and grammatical.EDCI 742 ESL/Dual Language Assessment
An in-depth examination of key issues/challenges in the appropriate language assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Among focal topics in theory, research and practice discussed will be: pre- and post-instructional assessment, authentic and alternative assessment, language testing and placement for programming in ESL/Dual Language classrooms.EDCI 731 ESL/Dual Language Linguistics
Explores the theoretical underpinnings of language acquisition and linguistics that educators need to understand, in order to better plan appropriately adapted curriculum and instruction for second language learners. The course encompasses problematic aspects of English language learning, the ways in which languages may differ, the literacy development process, and certain universal aspects of language.EDCI 740 Curriculum Materials for Dual Language Learners (Multicultural)
The course provides an over view of key issues relevant to:
- the cross-cultural dynamics of the ESL setting;
- appropriate adaptations necessary for a multicultural curriculum; and
- an overview of the foundations of Bilingual and ESL education.
The major topics addressed in this course include, but are not limited to:
- rapidly changing societal demographics and the realities of social change toward increasing diversity;
- the location of the institution of schooling along the social change continuum;
- the goals and benefits of third wave change;
- perspective on, and typologies of, pluralism and multiculturalism;
- understanding culture;
- understanding the culture-learning process;
- the product, outcomes, and limitations on socialization
- the intersections of cultures in schools and classrooms;
- frameworks for the analysis of intercultural interactions and their application to educational practice;
- the internalization of multiculturalism;
- the myths and false premises which lie at the heart of the underutilization of parents and community in the culturally diverse school environment;
- curriculum transformation; and
- the dynamics of ethnic growth.
EDCI 745 ESL/Dual Language Practicum or EDCI 746 Secondary Practicum
The practicum is a portfolio-based experience providing the student with application experiences in ESL/Dual Language methods, assessment, and multicultural competence as well as the opportunity to demonstrate understanding of second language acquisition. Students will be required to spend 65 hours in a school setting where they can practice and implement ESL lessons/methodology.** All students who seek an ESL Endorsement must take Assessment, Methods, and Practicum through Kansas State University.
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