Bilingual Authorization in Spanish - Program Learning Outcomes

After completing your Bilingual Authorization, you will be able to:

• Take an asset stance toward Latinx students’ and communities’ linguistic and cultural resources and draw on them to support student learning
• Understand bi/multilingual language use and development in Latinx communities in California and the US
• Use your Spanish language and literacy abilities to support your students’ learning and partner with their families 
• Understand different  bilingual program models
• Create learning experiences that support students’ language, literacy, and content learning in Spanish and English
• Understand the transferability between Spanish and English and build students’ metalinguistic awareness
• Develop instruction that is culturally and linguistically responsive to your student community
• Use formative and summative assessments to inform and differentiate instruction