The Bilingual School:

Features, Organization and Resources

Gema Jimnez Puente

UNIT 6: Main Features of Bilingual Centers

UNIT 6: Main Features of Bilingual Centers

How to study this unit

Creating communities of learners.

The bilingual school as an ecosystem.

The role of students, teachers and families.

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Main Features of Bilingual Centers

Activity

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Main Features of Bilingual Centers

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Creating communities of learners

social environments

Vygotskys theory
Individuals
learn from each other
is often used to
explain the benefits
of learning in groups.

learning process

interactions children

learning communities
student-to-student
interactions and
the exchange of
ideas.

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Creating communities of learners

(EXAMPLE)

Teacher and Student Roles

The teachers role is multifaceted:
not only creating and designing a
learning environment
also with the job of acting as an expert,
model, guide, and facilitator of these
social interactions

The learner or studentmore responsibility

as a teacher of his peers, an emerging expert, a
group member, and an individual responsible
for his own learning and interests.
Students take on an active role that depends on
working with others as well as independently.
Learning occurs within these interactions, as
students with different strengths support their
peers in developing understandings and skills.

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Creating communities of learners

Collaborative Learning and Group Work

Not only long-term inquiry projects also

daily tasks that foster more student-tostudent collaboration

It is demonstrated that Students

make more effort when they work
with others.

multiple ability taskstasks that allow students to make different contributions and
require a variety of skills and behaviors. They demand a range of skills
such as observing, manipulating materials, recording data, hypothesizing, and writing
reports.

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The bilingual school as an ecosystem

Bilingual school

as an Ecosystem

Main Features of Bilingual Centers

A bilingual center
is special in that:

Bilingual School:Features, Organization and Resources Gema Jimnez Puente

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The bilingual school as an ecosystem

members of a bilingual school

Bilingual coordinator

Management Team

Teachers

Bilingual School:Features, Organization and Resources Gema Jimnez Puente

UNIT 6: Main Features of Bilingual Centers

The bilingual school as an ecosystem

members of a bilingual school
Teachers

Bilingual School:Features, Organization and Resources Gema Jimnez Puente

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The role of students, teachers and families.

Students
3 types
monolingual students

Plurilingual students

Foreign students

Plan de AcogidaWelcome Plan

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UNIT 6: Main Features of Bilingual Centers

The role of students, teachers and families.

School and Family are considered as the two main scenarios in which
children grow in a personal, social and linguistic way.
Family
Good habits, family routines,
relationshis
personality

Nowadays the situation is very different

Open
The school Parents school
Resouces
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