Week 7: Assigment 1

As an instructor, I envision school set up as a bilingual program. Similar to many of the schools in Brooklyn, schools across the world would either implement the knowledge of French or Spanish within the classroom. Ways instructors may go about achieving this approach would be to include students who are well versed in either languages at home. By ensuring students who are current non bilingual speakers are able to mingle with bilingual students, this will instill and allow all students to learn through a dual language program and work with each other to strengthen their language acquisition. 

To push forward a dual language program, technology will be a major focus. Utilizing softwares such as Sparkito and Comprendo!, students have an opprotunity to submerge themselves within the language. In addition, as an instructor it is important to have dual language sighns throughout the classroom to ensure students have visual aids to progress in both languages. To ensure students are hitting their benchmarks, teachers must ensure their is a balance of language through assessments such as writing, including realouds within the language and simply testing students within the language.

Learning addiitonal languages allows students to communicate with people around the world and encourage tolerance amongst cultures. In addition, it is key that America finally catches up with their European counterparts educationally. Though America is deemed a first world country, their is definetly a lack of educational development within our classrooms and a missing component within the classroom learning experience.