Describes a high school program that encourages bilingual students to become tutors in their own community and to finish school and become teachers. (TB)

Research shows that schools must initiate and promote limited-English-speaking parent participation. The Hispanic Policy Development Project, which studied 42 parent involvement programs, documented the importance of teacher and administrator training, bilingual staff, translated written communications, parent advisory committees, parent-teacher…

The California legislature's conception of teacher education and its response to the state's need for improved bilingual education, for recriutment of teachers in critical subject matter areas, and for recruitment of teachers with strong academic preparation are discussed. Implications for preservice policy and research are identified. (DF)

Illustrates Rehearsal Demonstration Modules (RDM) using seven situations developed as a workshop for bilingual teachers. The situations describe what teachers, students, and parents really think as well as what they actually say. Each script deals with intercultural communication. (JAC)

The characteristics of 42,000 teachers who reported that they were teaching through a non-English language in 1976-77 were examined. Findings showed that teachers using a non-English language appeared to have been assigned on the basis of language skills alone. Fewer than half had had even one course in bilingual education. (NQ)

Reports on an ethnographic study carried out in primary classrooms in the North West of England. Focused on ways in which the roles of new bilingual classroom assistants were being defined through organizational practices and communicative routines of daily life in these classrooms. Reports bilingual teaching/learning events in which the bilingual…

Examined the Instructional Conversation (IC) as a socioculturally based professional development tool and how it encouraged knowledge construction as it was assisted through dynamic participation among mainstream and bilingual teachers of English language learners. Found that the IC could be instrumental in training teachers about theoretical…

Describes factors that helped students succeed in a minority bilingual teacher training project. Results showed that structural factors, such as centralized advising, caring staff, and cohorts, and ancillary factors, such as increase in self-esteem helped students succeed. (Author/VWL)

Describes the experience of 11 Michigan bilingual teachers attending an immersion program in Mexico involving 15 days of intensive seminars dealing with Mexican history, geography, mythology, folklore, politics, and education. (CB)

This study surveyed universities and colleges to determine numbers, target languages, levels of training and other details of bilingual special education, school psychology, diagnostician, and speech language pathology programs in the United States. Results indicate that despite increases in such programs, the need for them is not being met.…

Explains why it is difficult for the majority of bilingual-education teachers to develop teacher-like proficiency in Spanish in the context of the United States. Explores the "subtractive" orientation of U.S. society toward bilingualism that favors replacing the native language with English. (SLD)

Analyzes the experiences of one Texas university with the integration of legally residing foreign-trained Mexican teachers in their bilingual teacher education program. The preliminary analysis reveals that a university can assist in the integration of foreign-trained teachers, but that thinking "out of the box" to alleviate the teacher…

In the 1990s, teacher educators began to hear about the importance of studying and reporting on "best practices" in literacy learning to narrow the gap between high-and low-performing students. Of the studies produced, few of them looked to research in areas such as bilingual education for guidance on how to improve teaching reading for…

This article explores the long-standing problem of ascribing meaning to individual acts of codeswitching. Drawing on ethnographic data from bilingual classrooms in Corsica, I situate the analysis of codeswitching within the more general question of the interpretation of speaker stance, which is defined as speakers' positioning with regard to both…

The history, culture and practices of Central America are inadequately addressed in teacher preparation and professional development across the United States, and especially in California based on the author's analysis of teacher preparation. Information about the histories, cultures and practices add to the linguistic and pedagogic knowledge-base…