Bilingual Education Licensing

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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, clinical evaluations aligned to the standards, 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

EDU 631 - Second Language Acquisition Content Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
EDU 636 - Bilingual Ed Curriculum Design/Assm Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
EDU 630 - Paradigms of ESL/Bilingual Educ Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
EDU 638 - Biliteracy Development Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
EDU 637 - Language Analysis & Bilingualism Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
EDU 760 - Reflections ESL/Bilingual Teaching Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
EDU 761 - Student Teaching: ESL Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1