Teaching Emergent Bilingual Populations in Content Areas Graduate Certificate

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Appalachian’s one-year Graduate Certificate in Teaching Emergent Bilingual Populations in the Content Areas provides you with strong grounding in culturally sustainable pedagogy and creative methods for engaging immigrant and refugee in the areas of math, science and multiliteracies.

In North Carolina, about 8% of the student population was born outside the U.S. or speaks a language other than English at home. These students bring rich linguistic and cultural resources to schools, which teachers can learn about and build upon. By participating in this program, you will grow your confidence and ability to create meaningful, inquiry-based, multimodal learning contexts in math and science with a specific focus on multilingual immigrant and refugee youth.

This certificate focuses on the intersections of math, science, and language learning due to lower achievement and participation rates for bilingual students in these fields.

Whether you are a preservice or current classroom teacher, curriculum specialist, or ESL teacher, this certificate will help you grow your knowledge and skills to help young people who are immigrants, refugees, or children of immigrants reach their full potential as multilinguals in K-8 public school classrooms.

Note: This certificate does not lead to North Carolina licensure.

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Courses

Graduate Bulletin and Course Catalog
- Teaching Emergent Bilingual Populations in Content Areas Graduate Certificate

Application Essentials

Required Entrance Exam: None

Supplemental Information: Transcripts of all previous college-level academic work and a resume.

Basic Conditions for Consideration of Admission: Meeting or exceeding the conditions below does NOT guarantee admission. All applications for a given entry term will be weighed based upon the number of seats available and the quality of the complete application packages. With special permission from the Graduate School, a program may admit a limited number of students with exceptional circumstances who do not meet the graduate school minimums.

Graduate School: 3.0 GPA in the last earned degree.

Employers

Graduates are working at these and other employers:

This program began Fall 2019. Graduates will be prepared to work at these and other employers:

Public, private and charter schools across North Carolina and the U.S.
Social and human service agencies
Colleges and universities

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Application Deadlines

Spring: 11/1
Summer Session 1: 4/1
Summer Session 2: 4/1
Fall: 7/1

Why Appalachian?

Appalachian has been training quality educators for more than 100 years and is accredited by the Council for Accreditation for Educator Preparation (CAEP).
All graduate programs at Appalachian have small class sizes, providing intimate classroom interaction and opportunities to develop meaningful professional relationships with faculty.
You will learn from faculty in Appalachian’s renowned Reich College of Education who are experts in teaching and learning.
Classes are small, and the program emphasizes opportunities for research and applied field-based projects.
This certificate is an excellent add-on to the MA programs in Reading Education, Special Education, or Elementary, Middle and Secondary Education programs, allowing for expanded learning and marketability.
The School of Graduate Studies offers scholarships, fellowships and assistantships to support eligible, full-time, degree-seeking students.

Location

On campus

Careers

Classroom teacher
Curriculum coordinator
ESL teacher
Adjunct professor

Contacts

Dr. Shanan Fitts
Program Director
fittss@appstate.edu
828-262-8083

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Reich College of Education

Department of Curriculum and Instruction
The Department of Curriculum and Instruction offers a broad range of comprehensive degree programs at the baccalaureate and master’s level. The department seeks to provide quality programs that emphasize an integration of academics and field experiences.

Reich College of Education
Approximately 2,400 students
- The Reich College of Education enrolls approximately 2,400 students in its bachelor’s, master’s, education specialist and doctoral degree programs. It houses five departments: Curriculum and Instruction, Family and Child Studies, Human Development and Psychological Counseling, Leadership and Educational Studies, and Reading Education and Special Education.
Teacher preparation
- Appalachian has been training quality educators for more than 100 years and is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).
- Appalachian offers the largest undergraduate teacher preparation program in North Carolina, graduating about 500 teachers a year. There is at least one RCOE graduate working in every county in North Carolina.
- The Reich College of Education is recognized consistently in the annual Institution of Higher Education Performance Report by the State Board of Education.
Close ties to public schools
- The Appalachian State University Public School Partnership – which includes 125 schools in nine surrounding districts – provides sites for student teachers and interns as well as professional development opportunities for teachers.
- The Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork, located in Walkertown, North Carolina, serves over 300 K-5 students. The Academy provides a balanced education through the implementation of research-based practices, state-of-the-art literacy instruction, and exemplary classroom instruction and administration.
Graduate programs
- The School of Graduate Studies’ Accelerated Admission program, in which select undergraduate students can fulfill both undergraduate and graduate course requirements in their senior year toward the completion of a graduate degree program, is offered in: higher education, reading education and special education.
- Other education-related master’s degrees, graduate certificates and specialist degrees are listed on Appalachian’s School of Graduate Studies website.