Written Public Comment Submission Detail

Public Comment Details

Meeting
Commission Meeting - December 2021

Agenda Item
2B: Discussion and Potential Adoption of the Proposed Bilingual Authorization Educator Preparation Program Standards, Bilingual Teaching Performance Expectations, and Preconditions

Name
Fay Shin, Professor

Organization
CSU Long Beach and CSU Asian Bilingual Teacher Preparation Consortium Coordinator

Comments
I am a professor and the director for the Calif. State University Asian Bilingual Teacher Education Program Consortium. The consortium represents a collaboration between nine CSU campuses and we facilitate the sharing of students and faculty resources due to low enrollment for the classes such as the Mandarin, Korean, or Vietnamese bilingual methods and culture classes. We strongly believe a minimum of 20 hour fieldwork requirement is necessary for our bilingual teacher candidates to receive proper training and practical experience in the target language. We are aware that there may not be dual immersion programs in the local area for someof the Asian languages, which is why we have allowed flexibility (after school language programs, virtual observations, etc.). As the campus advisor for our Mandarin, Korean and Vietnamese Bilingual Authorization credential program, I have heard from many of our students that the fieldwork experience was crucial for them because they were able to actually observe a bilingual program and apply their coursework in the target language.

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