Single Subject Bilingual Credential
Preliminary Teaching Credential
We prepare the next generation of in-demand teachers for bilingual Spanish middle or secondary school classrooms. The credential authorizes the holder to teach in the candidates’ subject major (e.g., Science, Math, Social Science, English, Spanish, etc). In addition, it authorizes the teacher to provide instruction in the primary language.
*depending on the size of the language cohort and the availability of instructors.
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Program Overview
The bilingual credential program integrates a cohort model and provides a curriculum that addresses the needs of ethnically and linguistically diverse learners. Approximately 50% of the total program is devoted to student teaching. You can complete your professional coursework and student teaching in two semesters.
DLE Highlights
1st Program of Its Kind
We are the first statewide online/hybrid bilingual credential program.
Largest Program in CA
We have the largest graduating class of Bilingual teacher educators in the state of CA.
Model Bilingual Program
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) identified DLE as the Model Bilingual Program for updating CA Bilingual Teacher Education Standards.
1st Cohort of DL Partners
We graduated the first cohort of Dual Language Partners in the State, consisting of non-bilingual educators who understand bilingual education.
What Makes Our Program Unique
This involves learning to conduct surveys of students, schools, and community scans to provide funds of knowledge for classroom instruction.
As a single subject bilingual teacher candidate, you will have clinical practice (student teaching) opportunities in a middle school and a high school setting that has a linguistically and culturally diverse school population.
In one semester, you will be instructing in English and in the other semester, the classroom instruction will be in the second language of instruction. Note: one exception is with English Single subject who will teach English Language Development (ELD) or Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE) one of the two semesters.
“There is nothing less equal than the equal treatments of unequals.”
Test Support
Prepare and take your exams for free!
In partnership with the Butte County & San Diego County Offices of Education, we offer test preparation courses and support to those aspiring to become teachers. This includes the following supports:
- Test prep (CBEST/CSET/RICA)
- TPA support
- Grant opportunity for those in classified positions at school sites (requires a separate application)
- If student completes the course successfully, they receive an exam voucher which waives exam fee for CBEST or one of the CSETs.
Learn more about Exam Support.
Begin Your Credential with an Immersive Transborder Education Experience
The Transborder Education Experience (ED 450, 2 units) is a unique class created specifically for teacher candidates in the Dual Language and English Learner department and designed to explore education and border issues through a social justice lens.
The four-day class takes place across the border, in and around Tijuana and Tecate. It is designed to start the credential program with an intensive experience around both education and immigration issues faced on both sides of the border. One purpose is to help students reflect on their own personal experiences and how those will impact both teaching and learning in the classroom. It also opens avenues for critical thinking around the needs and experience of future students. This class also serves as a gateway for understanding how to create global citizens through cross-border connections. Participants meet with Mexican teachers and administrators, prepare and implement literacy based CalTPA aligned lessons, as well as discuss immigration and deportation and how those affect their classrooms. This class allows teacher candidates to build bonds with other students in their cohort at the beginning of the credential program in order to provide a strong network of support.
Do I need to be bilingual?
No. You can complete this program as a Dual Language (DL) partner. DL partners are teachers that understand the pedagogy and program models of bilingual and dual language education. Dual language (DL) immersion program models require that English Partner Teachers provide monolingual instruction in English at all grade levels. English Partner Teachers do not need to be bilingual in the partner language.
Learn more about DL partners.
