Obtain your Bilingual Extension in Spanish through the individual evaluation pathway, with these 4 non-matriculated courses. These four courses fulfill the 12 credits required for the Individual Evaluation Pathway for bilingual certification in Spanish.
(NON-MATRIC) Courses Offered for bilingual individual evaluation pathway
BLE 300/ BLE 500 Foundations of Bilingual Education, 3 credits
BLE 308/ BLE 508 Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics, 3 credits
Requirements for completing this Individual Evaluation Pathway
1. Existing Valid Base NYSED Certification
2. Content Core – Bilingual Education – 12 S.H. (Our 4 courses, register here)
3. College courses (By taking our 4 courses, you cover these 6 areas)
- College Coursework – Theories of bilingual education
- College Coursework – Multicultural Perspectives
- College Coursework – Sociolinguistics or psycholinguistics
- College Coursework – Teaching English to English language learners
- College Coursework – Teaching native language arts to English language learners
- College Coursework – Teaching content to English language learners using native language and English
4. Bilingual Education Assessment (BEA)
5. Workshops
- Workshop – Child Abuse Identification
- Workshop – School Violence Intervention and Prevention
- Workshop – Dignity For All Students Act (Register here)
6. Fingerprint Clearance
7. You must be fluent in Spanish
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