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Language Programs / Dual Language Parent Collaboratives

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Lewisville ISD offers a dual language parent collaboration. This is an opportunity for parents of current students in the Dual Language Program to acquire relevant information about the program and its various components. This is available via Skype/FaceTime or in person at school on scheduled dates.

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Language Programs / Dual Language Parent Collaboratives

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2022-2023
Welcome to the 2022-2023 school year! The Dual Language Team is looking forward to working with you at the Parent Collaboratives. This is an opportunity for parents of current students in the Dual Language Program to acquire relevant information about the program and its various component…

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Keeping honest and open conversation with families. Updating parents throughout each week, on good or bad behavior; the progress they are making and what could be worked on at home. 

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Encourage parents volunteer in classroom settings or school events. 

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Visual teaching- instructions, even basic directions for classroom procedures – should be written on the board whenever possible. Challenging concepts should be diagrammed or supported with pictures. And modeling the steps of a process or showing students what a finished product should look like can go a long way toward helping students understand.

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In a bilingual education classroom, all the students in the class speak the same language. The teacher also speaks the language. The way that a bilingual education class generally works is that  the teacher teaches in both English and the students' native language, eventually switching over to teaching only in English. The switch over is done gradually to give the students time to adjust. Bilingual classes also are geared more toward having the students eventually speak both languages fluently and to hold on to their culture.

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Sentence frames -shows students how to structure language in a formal way. 

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Group work where students can practice language with their peers in a more personal, lower-risk setting.

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https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/supporting-esl-students-mainstream-classroom/

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Characteristics of what the program looks like

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Characteristics of what the program looks like

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The goal of bilingual education programs shall be to enable English language learners to become competent in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the English language through the development of literacy and academic skills in the primary language and English.

In bilingual education, students are taught in two (or more) languages. It is distinct from learning a second language as a subject because both languages are used for instruction in different content areas like math, science, and history.
https://www.txel.org/parents-and-families/