Bilingual Education Extension
Bilingual Education Extension
The Bilingual Extension Program will prepare teachers to serve the special needs of bilingual learners in multicultural and multilingual schools by assisting them in developing language and disciplinary literacy skills in two languages that enable them to become college- and career-ready. Molloy University offers intensive course work in language acquisition, bilingual education theory and methodologies, language arts and content area instruction and assessment for bilingual learners, grammatical and linguistic issues, cultural diversity, and research methodologies.
Prerequisites for this program are a valid New York State teaching certificate (Early Childhood, Childhood, Adolescent Education, English to Speakers of Other Languages, Languages, Special Areas (art, physical education, etc.), Literacy, Special Education, Career and Technical Education, and specialists in Library Media and Educational Technology), a master's degree and a passing grade on BEA (Bilingual Education Assessment).