Native English speaking teacher and Bilingual Education
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 6:30 pm
Hi all,
I'm a native English speaker and an educator with over 10 years of experience in schools. I am considering becoming a bilingual education teacher at the elementary school level in either Texas or maybe even New York City. I believe that I can pass the required Spanish proficiency test to be a bilingual teacher, but I wonder what is the perception of principals, parents and other bilingual educators of a teacher whose first language is English and SECOND language is Spanish? I ask, because it seems like the majority of bilingual teachers are native Spanish speakers who have English as their second language, to varying degrees of proficiency.
Z
I'm a native English speaker and an educator with over 10 years of experience in schools. I am considering becoming a bilingual education teacher at the elementary school level in either Texas or maybe even New York City. I believe that I can pass the required Spanish proficiency test to be a bilingual teacher, but I wonder what is the perception of principals, parents and other bilingual educators of a teacher whose first language is English and SECOND language is Spanish? I ask, because it seems like the majority of bilingual teachers are native Spanish speakers who have English as their second language, to varying degrees of proficiency.
Z