Bilingual Education:
An educational program in which two languages ate used as mediums of instruction. Around the world, many bilingual education programs are enrichment programs so middle- and upper-class children can enjoy the benefits f bilingualism. In the United States, most bilingual educational programs are transitional in nature, meant to move linguistic minority children into all-English instruction as quickly as possible.
week 3 page. 67-73
Beginning: About the book
"I like being a teacher here because I'm given a chance to be creative, do different types of activities with the children."
Good Expressions:
1. I care about you.
2. I enjoyed being your teacher.
3. I'm very pleased with your work.
4. I know you can do better than this.
5. I don't like the way you are behaving.
Observation:
Teacher asked Ss what Ss did on weekend and used this to create a story.
Ss copied the story from the board.
T checked the spelling and punctuation and displayed good work on the bulletin board.
Ss composed sentences on their workbook as their daily journal. Besides, they drew pictures to accompany it.
Ss read from a small copy of a big book that has been read to the class many times. One classmate sat beside her and help when encounter trouble with a word.
"The children all seem to know what they have to do and do it."
Bilingual Education
Bilingual children need advocates because the political issues surrounding bilingual education tend to overshadow the bilingual issues, and the children get lost in the process.
- bilingual classroom observation
- applicable issues
- Anything that can help children should be used.
Bilingual programs are not meant to be language programs; they are educational programs whose main purpose is to ensure the cognitive development of the students. Collier (1995a, 1995b) found that one of the key factors promoting academic success is cognitively complex instruction through the first language for as long as possible. Use of the native language facilities cognitive development.
- seatwork
- master degree
- doctor degree
- teacher educator
Making sense is the essence of learning.
When you want to learn something, we work at the task in various way until it makes sense to us.
Carole Edslsky (1991), Frank Smith (1975, 1986)
- holistic approach
- whole language
- What the learning children do is a result of their own efforts, and teacher only facilities that process. (constructivism)
Everything is simply presented the way it happened, a verbal snapshot of a real classroom at the present time.
Learning Journal:
This chapter showed us the way this book is focus on. Rather that other teaching training books, this book focuses on the topics and relative issues in bilingual education. Bilingual education is neither a teaching approach nor a teaching method. Instead, it's a kind of teaching philosophy. Bilingual advocates believed that the way that Ss learned is the best way doing so, and they tried to make efforts to help student facilitate their knowledge and learning process. In doing this, teacher needed a great deal of observation and investigation to make them easily learn well. However, I felt the author is indeed a good observer, for her vivid description of the classroom activities, student movement, classroom setting and the process why she turned to believe this teaching principle. I don't like her way of words though, her determination and dedication really impressed me and strengthen me to the desire to be a good teacher.
Words I learned in this chapter:
- discipline 學科
- Proclaim
- Becken
- Rummage
- Easel
- Math manipulative
- Rectangular
- Coat room
- Dehydrated
- Sloppy
- Sound stern
- Modulations
- Buzz
- Calmness
- Confer
- Overshadow
- Multiplication
- Tadpole
- Caterpillar
- Having recurring nightmares
- Holistic approach
- Mediocre
- In a linear fashion
- ground my theory
- gracious
- helpful
- catalyst 催化劑; 觸媒劑
- immense (n.) extremely large or great, esp. in scale or degree —>an immense thank you
- plow 耕地
- reflexive: showing that the action of the verb is performed on its subject 反身的（詞或形式）
- churning/short snow
- reason v. think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic
- dispassionate a. not influenced by strong emotion, and so able to be rational and impartial
- disguise v. give (someone or oneself) a different appearance in order to conceal one's identity
- make sense of
- whimsical a. full of whimsy; fanciful, playful or capricious 有很多希奇的或耍笑的舉動或幽默的; 異想天開的; 鬧著玩兒的; 突發奇想的
- impressionistic a. ased on subjective reactions presented unsystematically 印象主義的
- sounding board 傳播意見等的方法,造輿論的途徑(報紙的讀者投書欄等)
- metric n. a system or standard of measurement.
- be woven out 編織出
- strand 因素,成分[of]
- ethnography n [U] scientific description of the different human races 人種志
- committed
- polemics 辯論
