Post-Credential Bilingual Authorization (Spanish) for Multiple Subject, Single Subject and/or Education Specialist Credential (California)

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Post-Credential Bilingual Authorization (Spanish) for Multiple Subject, Single Subject and/or Education Specialist Credential (California) Degree

Application:

$0 application fee. No essays/exams.

This program is designed as a bilingual authorization to be added to an existing base credential for teachers holding Multiple Subject, Single Subject or Education Specialist (Moderate Support Needs and Extensive Support Needs) teaching credentials. Candidates must meet program admission requirements and complete a four-course sequence of bilingual methods courses plus one course on bilingual virtual clinical practice to be eligible for the added bilingual authorization (Spanish).

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Degree Requirements

To receive an added bilingual authorization (SPANISH/ENGLISH), candidates must complete at least 22.5 quarter units.

National University awards credit in quarter units, with each academic year divided into four 12-week quarters. 

Each quarter is made up of three 4-week classes, with one class per month. Under the current policy, 4.5 units of credit are awarded for courses.

Prior to admission into this program, candidates must show proof of active CTC credential (Multiple Subject/Single Subject/Mild-Moderate/ Moderate Severe), current work assignment, and number of years working as a certificated teacher in public schools in California. Candidates must pass CSET LOTE (Subtest III) PRIOR to admission into the Post-Credential Bilingual Authorization program.

Each BIL Methods Course includes a required 4-hour field experience in a bilingual/dual language K-12 classroom representing a diverse bilingual/multilingual student population.

Bilingual Methods Courses

4 Courses

PRIOR to beginning any of the Bilingual Authorization Method courses below, the candidate must successfully complete CSET LOTE (Subtest III) and meet any other related program requirements.

4.5 Quarter Units

This course identifies the goals of behavioral analysis as a science, explains the philosophical assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis, describes and explains behavior from the perspective of radical behaviorism and the dimensions of ABA, and distinguishes among the four branches of ABA.

4.5 Quarter Units

Prerequisite: ABA 620

Defines the field’s fundamental elements: behavior and the environmental antecedent and consequential events that influence it; and introduces key terms and principles that describe relationships among these elements.

4.5 Quarter Units

Prerequisite: ABA 622

Role of measurement in behavior analysis, how to assess the social significance of potential target behaviors, how to interpret graphically displayed data, options for setting criteria for behavior change, state intervention goals in observable and measurable terms, identify potential interventions based on assessment results, and recommend interventions goals and strategies.

4.5 Quarter Units

Prerequisite: ABA 624

Describes an assessment process that explores the purpose a behavior serves for a person, how to conduct a functional analysis of problem behavior, interpret functional assessment data, and the role in treating and preventing problem behaviors.

AND Bilingual Clinical Practice (1 course; 4.5 quarter units) candidates will complete 150 hours of bilingual clinical practice experience virtually and/or remotely.

Bilingual Student Teaching

1 Course

4.5 Quarter Units

Prerequisite: BIL 620; BIL 622; BIL 624; BIL 626

This course on Bilingual Virtual Clinical Practice will allow Multiple Subject or Single Subject or Education Specialist credentialed candidates to complete 24 hours of Bilingual Virtual Clinical Practice to meet practice and teaching performance associated with earning a Bilingual Authorization to be added to an active base credential. Bilingual Virtual Clinical Practice will take place through observations, instructional design, teaching and scenario analysis of virtual or onsite Bilingual/Dual Language classrooms in CA public schools. Grading is S, U or In Progress (IP).

*The bilingual clinical practice course does NOT grant graduate credit.

Career Outlook

The Post-Credential Bilingual Authorization (Spanish) for Multiple Subject, Single Subject and/or Education Specialist Credential (California) degree will prepare you for careers such as:

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Program Learning Outcomes

Learn the key skills to help you excel in your field of study.

  • Analyze and examine the philosophical, theoretical, historical, legal, and legislative foundations of education policies, school programs, and research on the effectiveness of bilingual/dual language education and bilingualism in the United States
  • Promote students’ social-emotional growth, bilingual development, and sense of individual and civic responsibility using asset-based interventions, restorative practices, and conflict resolution practices that foster a linguistically inclusive community
  • Design learning experiences for all students that apply research on the cognitive and metacognitive effects of bilingualism, biliteracy, translanguaging, and transliteracies as developmental linguistic processes, including but not limited to cross-linguistic transfer, contrastive analysis, and language use
  • Design bilingual instruction by planning, developing, implementing, and assessing standards – aligned content instruction in English and target language which integrates knowledge of the linguistic repertoires and registers across contexts and content areas and transferability between primary and target language
  • Employ a variety of culturally relevant, unbiased instructional, and assessment strategies appropriate to students’ transnational educational experiences, language proficiency, and developmental levels in both languages that promote student achievement across program models
  • Demonstrate intercultural communication and interaction with families and communities that are linguistically and culturally responsive and affirming in order to empower families’ leadership development for civic engagement in bilingual/dual language education schools
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Next start date: November 15

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