Bilingual Education
The Education Associate: The Bilingual Child Program is a two-year program that prepares Bilingual Education Associates to meet the critical need for professionally trained teaching support personnel to work in schools comprised largely of Spanish-speaking children. The program is administered by the Department of Education and Language Acquisition, and awards the Associate of Arts (AA) degree. The program transfers to City College.
Students admitted to the program must demonstrate written and oral proficiency in Spanish equivalent to ELS105, Spanish for Fluent Speakers I. In addition, the program provides field-based instruction in bilingual curriculum development and teaching methodology. Students who are not currently working as paraprofessionals will be placed on internships in bilingual schools. Working classroom paraprofessionals may use their current employment site to fulfill the internship requirement. The internships are accompanied by seminars designed to assist students with problems they encounter in their teaching positions.
Students who need additional skill development in reading, writing, mathematics and communication will be required to take basic skills and/or ESL courses. These courses are not listed in the curriculum. The particular courses students must successfully complete are determined by their scores on the college placement test.
For specific requirements for this major, click here.
Childhood Education and Secondary Education
The jointly registered AA/BS Program in Liberal Arts/Childhood Education and AA/BA Liberal Arts/Secondary Education, coordinated by the Education and Language Acquisition Department, are designed for students who are interested in pursuing teaching as a career and who plan to transfer to the Queens College School of Education. The programs can lead to admission to Queens College upon successful completion of LaGuardia’s Associate of Arts (AA) degree requirements in Liberal Arts (60 credits for Secondary Education and 64 credits for Childhood Education) and provide a clearly defined academic path that leads to New York State provisional certification in teaching. They also ensure that the students' course selections at LaGuardia will simultaneously satisfy degree requirements at Queens College.
The programs have two Cooperative Education internships. The internships are accompanied by a cooperative education seminar designed to integrate theory and practice. The LaGuardia internship will satisfy the 100 hours of experience required for working with children. The intent of the cooperative education internship is to involve students in the educational life of the classroom, to let them experience a variety of school settings, and to learn beginning skills in a teaching role. The aim of the seminar is to provide knowledge and practice that reinforces and explains the experience of the internship.
Students in these programs are required to complete a Liberal Arts major along with the education co-major at Queens College. Queens College offers a large number of liberal arts majors. Therefore, the Liberal Arts elective credits at LaGuardia should be taken toward a Liberal Arts major at a senior college and students should consult with an advisor before selecting electives.
Students in the must have a grade of B in at least one course in each of the core content areas: Math, Science, Social Studies, and English Language Arts. They also must maintain a minimum overall cumulative average of 2.75 in order to begin study in this program at Queens College. While a GPA of 2.75 is the minimum requirement for consideration, IT DOES NOT GUARANTEE admission to this program at Queens College.
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