Education, Bilingual Education Concentration, MA/Licensing

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For Licensure plus a Master’s Degree, Add the Following Courses:

Program Requirements

Bilingual Education Licensing

The Bilingual Education Licensing sequence prepares students to pursue the Wisconsin DPI Bilingual Education license. The Bilingual Education license (023/1023) is a supplemental license allowing teachers to teach subjects in two languages. The program entails coursework, a semester of student teaching, a portfolio, and demonstration of language proficiency.

The Bilingual Education license is an add-on license that can be added on to an initial license.

Program Prerequisite

Program prerequisite: a current WDPI license at one of the following levels: Initial Educator, Professional Educator, Masters Educator within one of the following fields; EC-MC, MC-EA regular education, EA-A in a specific content area, or EC-A Foreign Language (for ESL add-on only).

Required Courses

ED 605B - Paradigms of ESL/Bilingual Educ Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
ED 604A - Second Language Acquisition Content Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
ED 605K - Language Analysis & Bilingualism Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
ED 605D - Biliteracy Development Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
ED 604G - Bilingual Ed Curriculum Design/Assm Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
ED 694A - Supervised Field Mentoring: Biling Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3

Core Master’s Degree Experiences

For licensure plus a master’s degree, add the following courses:

ED 603 - Intro to Educational Research Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
ED 605C - ESL/Bilingual Program Development Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
ED 689 - Mentoring Coaching and Leadership Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
ED 692 - Research Capstone Project Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Select 3 credits of electives from any ED prefix course numbered 600 and above.