Unit 3: Bilingual education

Overview 

This page will cover the United States education system, a Latinx fight for educational equity, the benefits of ESL programs, the backlash they have received, and the backlash they have received, the push for bilingual education, anri-racist education, and how to teach using anti-bias methods. 

More specifically, this page will explore moments in the history of court cases involving the fight for education and educational equity and focus on the challenges Latinx students face in the educational system by looking into the policies that were put in place against bilingual education and ESL programs used by examining deficit-model and deficit-model thinking. 

Below you will find lesson plans and extra sources about...

  • The History of Bilingual Education in the United States 
  • Specific court cases that sought to equalize education for ELL students 
  • Prominent Bilingual Education activities 
  • Connecticut's contribution to the Bilingual education Social justice movement

Teaching Teachers: Teaching Anti-Bias

Message to teachers: This section is especially important to understand because applying what is taught in this section will help create a safer space, for yourself and your students, as you teach some of the sensitive topics discussed in this course. This section sheds some light into the reality of race, racism, and the school-to-prison pipeline while offering guides and materials that make anti-biased teaching more simple. Also included in this section are engaging activities to do with students and tips to create an anti-bias environment in the classroom.Diversity and Inclusion and Strength in Numbers - NewsScope

Theory and Approach

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  • Book for how to teach without bias and teaching anti-bias: Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves, Second Edition (by: Julie Olsen Edwards and Louise Derman-Sparks)
  • Scholarly Article on Prejudice Teaching: Zuidema, Leah A. “Myth Education: Rationale and Strategies for Teaching Against Linguistic Prejudice.” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, vol. 48, no. 8, May 2005, pp. 666–675., doi:10.1598/jaal.48.8.4. 

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Teacher Testimonies 

This is a teacher’s testimony in her experience with an ESL student: This is a new teacher's testimony of her experience teaching - and learning from - a Vietnamese ESL student. This brief journal profile is easy to use as a model for students writing about what impresses them about classmates who are different from they are. My experiences with an English as a second language (ESL) student - Michigan 

 

      2020 Teacher Interview: This interview was conducted to get a teacher’s perspective in the upcoming curriculum in African-American and Latino Studies and show other teachers that they are not alone with their concerns of how to teach the class or how other schools feel about it. The interview also includes her suggestions for the course and the methods of teaching that can include all students. She also gives great insight into the relationships teachers have with ESL students and how that can improve. file:///home/chronos/u-f5476ba0da76963d3dd91ebd00fea576551d8a24/MyFiles/Downloads/Teacher%20Interview%20Fitch%202020.pdf 

                    Videos on Anti-Bias

                    Lesson Plan

                    Lesson 1: School To Prison Pipeline On Latinx Students

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                    Lesson 2: The Latinization of the U.S. Schools/Legal Battle

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                    Lesson 3: Battle over Bilingual Education

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                    Student Activities

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                    Lesson 3 Activities

                    Extra Resources

                     

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                    • The House on Mango Street: A story about a young Chicana, English and Spanish girl and what it is like growing up a Latina immigrant in Chicago (she touches uponThe Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo | Goodreads language english vs spanish)  
                    • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents: This is a coming-of-age story about four sisters from the Dominican Republic. 
                    • Bravo! Poems About Amazing Hispanics by Margarita Engle 
                    • Gabby Garcia's Ultimate Playbook by Iva-Marie Palmer: Dear fans of Dork Diaries and Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life—story about a confident Latina pitcher and her journey of self-improvement 
                    • The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo: Fifteen-year-old Xiomara, who goes by X, works through the tension and conflict in her family by writing poetry. The book was well received and won multiple awards at the 2019 Youth Media Awards. 
                    • Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for … by Duncan Tonatiuh: A 2015 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book and a 2015 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Almost 10 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez and her parents helped end school segregation in California. 
                    • Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan: Esperanza Rising is a young adult historical fiction novel.

                                     

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                                    • Benefits of being bilingual video:  The benefits of a bilingual brain - Mia Nacamulli  Video on Learning Spanish Later On in Life: Dylan Garity - Rigged Game 
                                    • Latino Education & Economic Progress: Dylan Garity - Rigged Game 
                                    • Student Perspective on School-to-Prison Pipeline video: (put video with anti-bias teaching section on webpage as an example if the effects of unconscious bias): TED TALKS LIVE Short - Unconscious Bias 
                                    • School to Prison Pipeline History: the 13th on Netflix documentary 
                                    • Precious Knowledge documentary: This movie details the stories of students from Tucson High School in Arizona, who are trying to save their Mexican-American Studies program from being banned. 
                                    • Stand and Deliver: This movie follows the story of a math teacher and his class in an inner-city high school in Los Angeles. Math teacher Jaime Escalante takes it upon himself to teach high level math to his class of tough students and when they score well on the state’s test their abilities are questioned. 
                                    • Chicano! Taking Back Our Schools (documentary): The movie documents the 1968 walkout by thousands of Mexican-American high school students in East Los Angeles against unfair treatment in their schools. 
                                    • Chicano!   Taking Back the Schools mp4 
                                    • Walkout: This movie is a docudrama about the Chicano student walkouts of 1968.

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                                    • Slam poetry: