Bilingual legislation in Texas requires that the Texas Education Agency provide for Bilingual Education Teacher Training Institutes. This manual was developed to serve as a guide for the implementation of such institutes throughout the state. Each institute meets six hours a day for five days. A detailed outline is given in this manuel for each of…

This report, designed to provide the Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing with documentation concerning the need for credentialing in bilingual/ cross-cultural education, is based on the examination of the performance of minority populations in California having a cultural and linguistic background different than that of the dominant…

The purpose of this study is to understand how teachers negotiate decisions about goals and instruction for language minority students and how these decisions play out in classroom interactions. Much of bilingual education research focuses on program evaluation and implementation and, consequently, overlooks the critical role teachers play in the…

Explains how bilingual education programs and monolingual institutions with remedial English as a Second Language programs share the goal of acculturation. Describes resistance and opposition to bilingual education, as well as its goals, advantages, approaches, teachers, and problems. (SB)

The purpose of this report is to fulfill the statutory requirement (Public Act 294, 1974) that the Michigan State Department of Education "make an annual report relative to bilingual instruction programs to the legislature and the governor." The report is designed to present the information necessary to understand the 1975-76 status of…

The monograph is intended to help the education community understand and implement the concept of bilingual education. Part I notes recent forward moves in teacher education for multicultural programs and bilingual classes. In Part II descriptions of model programs in the Philadelphia School District are used to provide perspective on the problem…

This research report reflects the use of precision teaching techniques incorporated into a microcomputerized observational system to assess bilingual instructional practices and student outcomes. Three local educational agencies were monitored to assess the relationship between the demographic background of the student and the interactive profile…

This document contains the continuation proposal for the fourth grade Compton bilingual education program. A review of the third year is included with details on process evaluation, project personnel and duties, new vocabulary developed by the project for lexical references, and inservice training of teachers. Information concerning the proposed…

This collection of papers includes nine chapters in three parts. Part 1, "Effective Practices in Teacher Training," offers: (1) "Research-Based Teaching Practices that Improve the Education of English Language Learners" (Hersh C. Waxman and Yolanda N. Padron); (2) "Relationship between Pre-Service Teachers' Beliefs About…

This document presents the evaluation results for Cicero Public School District #99 (Illinois) in the third year of funding for a special alternative federal grant which provides collaborative teams of bilingual and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers the means to support each other, their students, and the parents of their students…

A two-year evaluation of an experience-based curriculum in bilingual education is described in parable style. The proposal for this research design was developed around the question of first-hand field experiences. A review of the first-year project revealed some of its weaknesses and reasons for poor results. For the second year, the public…

This paper was written as a response to the political debate in California regarding the proper role of bilingual education in the state's kindergarten through high school public school system. Specifically, it examines, in light of the positions and prescriptions of Proposition 227 (an initiative holding that all California students be taught…

A summary is presented of interviews with nine kindergarten and first grade teachers, all monolingual, in the four Title VII Bilingual Project schools where participation includes just kindergarten and first grade. Four bilingual teacher aides are assigned to these schools. Intended to provide data for assessment of ongoing activities as well as…

Bilingual/bicultural education in the United States in undergoing a renaissance founded on the notions of (a) equality of educational opportunity and (b) accountability in public education. The first section of this monograph examines the significant causes for this renaissance. It is pointed out that although great strides have been made in a…

This journal consists of guides to instructional materials and articles on subjects of interest to teachers in bilingual education programs. The following articles and regular features appear in this issue: (1) "Social Class or Culture? -- A Fundamental Issue in the Education of Culturally Different Students," by Frank Angel, an excerpt from a…