Discuss Why The Lau (1974) And Castañeda (1981) Decisions

• During the Catañeda vs. Pickard case a father claimed that his two children were not having their educational rights met at their school in the Raymondville Independent School District. The father, Mr. Catañeda, further stated that the Raymondville Independent School District was not providing a proper bilingual education program for his children.

Furthermore, Vonderlack-Navarro suggest another beneficial way to support English language learners is to involve parents in the students’ education. Because of the language barriers, education levels, and culture, this goal will not be a stress-free assignment; however, once the parents have “buy-in” and trust the school systems, the goal would be accomplished (Stover,

The curriculum for English-Spanish Learners (ESL) or English-Language Learners, was created to assist students who do not speak any or little English. Angela Valenzuela describes in her article, “Subtractive Schooling, Caring Relations, and Social Capital in the Schooling of U.S.~Mexican Youth,” that

While completing CLDE 5160 I began to develop a deeper understanding of the history of bilingual education. For standard 5.a I have selected the completed case study as my artifact. The reason I selected my case study as the artifact for this standard was because we developed it over the course of the semester and now it shows my growth as an educator. I completed this artifact prior to starting my first year as a teacher of record on the school that I had been hired to teach at.

Section 305(a)(2) states that “school districts and county offices of education shall, at a minimum, provide English learners with a structured English immersion program.”(CSU, 2017, p. 554). The immersion program designed with English learning students in mind will allow the use of the students home language for clarifications and to check for understanding(Buenrostro. 2017, p.2). The

It is no secret that the debate over what is the best course of action to educate our non-native English language students across the country is a highly charged topic that runs from the classroom to Capitol Hill. There have been many shifts in direction and focus of educational programs for English Language Learning (ELL) students during the past century in our nation's history. In 1968, with the passage of the Bilingual Education Act (Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) legislation was

However, this issue would take far more than funding. The issue of bilingual education in our public school system is a much debated topic in this country, and especially in this state. The Education Topic over Bilingual Education in our School Systems Spanish-speaking populace has grown tremendously in these past decades, much of which have immigrated with Spanish as their only language. This has left the public school system with an interesting problem; how to successfully transition Spanish speaking students into an English environment. Public school systems have adopted an immersion program; where students learn English and other subjects in classrooms where only English is spoken (Parkay, 2013). Students are not necessarily aided, they are required to learn like their peers from the teacher and ask for direction when needed in English. This program might aid some fast learners, but students who do not adapt to English; which is a foreign language to them, are left to learn on their own. If the student does not get the

Every student in every school, belongs to a different household, with a different family, and different ways of living their lives. Not every student falls under one same reason as to why they fail in school. And what each of these researchers are doing, is giving an entire article over one reason they think is good enough, but the truth is, a researcher is not capable of writing an article over one single reason and believe they have solved the mystery. There is no “general idea” as to why. Teachers, principals and researchers categorize every failing student as unsuccessful, but it is that same reason that drives those same students towards where they are headed. I’ve seen this in my younger brother who is a sophomore. He started failing from the minute my stepfather starting shooting him down for his “C” grades in Junior High. That lessened my brother’s potential and lessened his idea of being successful. After every school meeting, every detention, every phone call; He gave up. All this attention he was receiving, he didn’t want it, nor did he need it to succeed. There’s a difference between wanting to help a student, and simply wasting time on one. What these teachers, principals, and my stepfather did, was waste their time and my brother’s. Because in the end, he didn’t care to change. Especially with continuous judgment, categorizing and comparisons to other children or family members. In the article, “Kewauna’s Ambition”,

Many students who are English language learners come from a background were in their household they speak another language rather than English. This is why it is very hard for them to adapt when they are entering a school. According to the 1968 Bilingual Education Act, this act mentioned how English Language Learners faced problems and how they came up with educational programs to help students who were Spanish speaking students (Stewner-Manzanares, 1988, P.1). The Bilingual Education Act was put in place and with this act they wanted the federal government to deliver programs that would help students who were Spanish speakers (Stewner-Manzanares, 1988,

ESL is stands for English as a Second Language, which is a program that?s mainly developed to supplement the Bilingual Education in order to give extra help to the immigrants to learn English. ?The profession of teaching English as a second language within the United States began to expand in the 1960s in response to increasing numbers of immigrant and refugee children entering the country, as well as to the growing numbers of international students attending U.S. universities? (Collier and Ovando, 1998). Students in the ESL program receive the instruction of their level of English proficiency, so they can learn the English from the very basic level. Once they get better with their English skills, they will be able to move out the ESL program and be as competitive as the native speakers of English in other subject classes. The first decades of ESL programs fails to help students with academic work in math, science, social studies, and other curricular areas but English. In order to improve this situation, ESL programs started to focus more in helping students with their academic works during the 1950s and 1960s (Collier and Ovando, 1998).

Prior to his trip to France, Laertes’s father Polonius gave him a handful of advice, most importantly the advice to “above all, be true to yourself.” However, after Laertes’s departure, Polonius prepares to send his servant Reynaldo to spy on his son, in an attempt to find discover Laertes’s whereabouts, and whether or not he took his father’s advice and acting on it. Now while Laertes may choose to dismiss his father’s advice, Reynaldo has a duty to fulfill that of which his master asks of him, thus making him “duty bound”. However, Laertes and Reynaldo decisions tie into the theme of Action vs. Inaction as a result of their decisions on whether to act on the advice or responsibilities they’ve been given or not. In addition to Action vs. Inaction,

Differentiating instruction for ELLS is extremly inportant for their success in school. Sheltered Contenent Instruction state, "REsearch suggests that English learners benefit from a seperate block of time for ELD or ESL." They also stated that sometimes this can not happen due to the large amount of ELL's in a classroom. In this case the teacher can co teach with an ESL teachers to help these students.

Based upon the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, all English Language Learners (ELLs) “shall be kept in an adequate program until they can read, write, and comprehend English well enough to participate meaningfully in all aspects of the school’s curriculum (Education Commission of the States (ECS) website, n.d., para. 4). While keeping these parameters in mind, I began taking a closer look at the support my school district has in place to aid in the education of ELLs (primarily Hispanic) and their families. Drawing upon my years spent at both the elementary and secondary levels in my district, I would conclude that there is not enough being done to ensure that our ELLs can meaningfully

Some students are fortunate enough to be offered English as a Second Language classes (abbreviated ESL) or bilingual programs in school. Sandy Yanes, a third grade

Bilingual” (qtd in Shi, Steen 63). The objective of the ESL students is to learn how to speak, read, and write in English and know about the system of the school too. That learning will help them with other courses in school. ESL students have come from all over the world in America to study. Statistically, the number of immigrants in the USA is growing quickly. This quote shows us that