A bilingual teacher in a multiage 4th-6th-grade classroom has met the special academic needs of limited-English-speaking migrant students who immigrated from Mexico with little previous schooling. Her strategies and techniques include an accepting classroom environment, high expectations for every student, building on student background knowledge…

Ten research papers are presented that were commissioned by the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs for the 1990 research symposium on issues related to Limited-English-Proficient (LEP) students. Responses from 20 practitioners who served as discussants at the symposium are included in the proceedings. Topics range from…

A small-scale ethnographic study investigated: (1) the instructional role of the paraprofessional/teacher aide in dealing with the educational needs of limited-English-proficient (LEP) students; (2) to what extent the paraprofessional is aware of those needs; (3) whether ethnic or linguistic differences between paraprofessionals yield distinctive…

Data are presented on the number and distribution of limited-English-proficient (LEP), fluent-English-proficient (FEP), and bilingual students and teachers and migrant students in California public elementary and secondary schools. Tables present the information by county, grade level, language, participation in a bilingual program, and staff…

Proceedings of a Navajo Bilingual Education Conference held April 26 and 27, 1985, are summarized in this report which focuses on the implementation of Navajo language and cultural education at the Dzlith Na O Dith Hle Community School (DCS). The paper begins by stating that the conference was intended to assist educators in understanding and…

As part of a larger study of significant bilingual instructional education features, the stability of instruction by 10 teachers was examined. Six aspects of instruction were investigated: instructional organization, time allocation, active teaching, use of the students' native or English language and culture, curriculum intent, and the teacher's…

In 1986-87, the New York City Staff Development Program for Bilingual/English as a Second Language (ESL) Kindergarten through Ninth-Grade Teachers and Supervisors provided in-service training in bilingual education theory, policy, and practice to about 500 teachers and administrators serving limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in the city's…

Project Esperanza, a staff development effort, was designed in order to supplement the basic educational program for handicapped students with limited English proficiency in New York City Schools. The project served the teachers of 458 students in elementary, intermediate, and secondary schools, and provided (1) staff training and consultation;…

The first section of the ninth annual report of the National Advisory and Coordinating Council on Bilingual Education (NACCBE) provides an overview of the Council's functions and activities. It also discusses current bilingual education law; the changed structure of the advisory council; the new doors opened by the 1984 Amendments of the Bilingual…

The context of educational reform within which U.S. higher education has worked in selected Latin American countries is examined, with attention directed to the specific experience of the University of New Mexico. The evolution of the Latin American Programs in Education office (LAPE) in the university setting, the organizational milieu in which…

This Child Development Associate (CDA) training module, the second in a series of 16, focuses on developing a positive self concept among trainees in a competency-based bilingual/bicultural preschool teacher training program. In the first section, reading about another culture and its values are used to promote the trainee's reflection about his…

Recent developments and means to promote competence and flexibility in preservice training of foreign language teachers are examined. Five issues the profession faces in preparing qualified candidates are: redefining the role of foreign language teachers in general and of the generalist and specialist in particular; selecting the candidates;…

This volume, the last in a series of seven, contains the learning module on staff, which focuses on the last Child Development Associate (CDA) competency, in the performance based curriculum of the Texas A & I Bilingual Bicultural Child Development Associate Training Program. The curriculum was designed for training preschool teachers working…

Those who write and fund bilingual education programs are primarily concerned with the implementation, administration, and management of certain types of programs rather than with their instructional components. An analysis of 75 bilingual education program proposals indicated that this resulted in a preoccupation with facilities, materials,…

On the theory that a large part of children's learning comes from their peers, a successful, innovative tutorial system has been initiated for ESL (English as a second language) junior high school students. Bilingual eighth and ninth grade honor students representing the languages spoken by the ESL students are recruited to help tutor…