Bilingual Education
Advantages & Disadvantages
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Closing
I would like to take this time to thank
- My family
- My friends
- Judges
- Mr. Scrufari
- God
Closing
- This experience was very eye opening
- Advice for upcoming seniors: Do not procrastinate and use your time wisely. Choose something that interests you and you won't regret later on.
Learn/Improve
Learn?
- Work well with younger kids
- Gained confidence and improved my social skills.
- I also worked well with using my time efficiently
Improve?
- Work harder on my graduation paper to receive a better grade.
Process
- All together my products took 17 hours to complete
- One of the things that I struggled with and had to step out of my comfort zone with was teaching a class and expressing my opinions on the subject to a group of people.
1. Created a lesson plan that I followed and came up with a series of questions for the interviews.
2. Meeting with my mentor for his opinion on my lesson plan. After creating the questions I made sure the students getting interviewed agreed with the questions being asked
3. Teach a class of students at Rose Hill-Magnolia using the lesson plan that I created and recorded the interviews and edited it.
Special Thanks
Susan Chavez
Bridgett Cruz
Cindy Cortez
Jonathan Iraheta
Jorge Aguilar
Francis Lagos
Brayan Pacheco
Research
Product
- Teaching a class for which a lesson plan is provided
- Video in which I interviewed various students for their take on Bilingual Education.
Skills and Knowledge
- Social skills and energy played a major role .
- Witnessing my younger brother and friends.
Research
Through researching the advantages and disadvantages of Bilingual Education I realized that, locally, not much is being done to improve the learning process of students in these ESL classes. I decided to create a video in which I interview students and ask for their opinions on the subject.
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Bilingual Education in young kids who speak Spanish at home and English at school.
- One specific study traced the learning progress of more than 2,000 Spanish-speaking students over the course of four years. This experiment showed that students in bilingual classes or programs that featured a gradual transition to English significantly outperformed their counterparts in quick-exit transitional bilingual programs.
Community Mentor
Project Idea
- Bilingual Education is beneficial
- My younger brother was having difficulty learning two languages at once
- Subject is relevant and relatable
Introduction