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CLDE 5160 Case Study

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While completing CLDE 5160 I began to develop a deeper understanding of the history of bilingual education. For standard 5.a I have selected the completed case study as my artifact. The reason I selected my case study as the artifact for this standard was because we developed it over the course of the semester and now it shows my growth as an educator. I completed this artifact prior to starting my first year as a teacher of record on the school that I had been hired to teach at. My case study began by discussing overview of issues facing our students today. I talked about America being a melting pot and not having an official language while defending my students to others. I continued to talk about how Obama and his family were being criticized simply because of the color of their skin. I then proceeded to state that I felt like the country was entering a war against itself. “We are a country that was built on immigration …show more content…

I talked about how we used to have bilingual German schools until the end of World War II then we adapted the English only model. During this time also brought up that we were refusing to educate African American students even though we forced them to come here. I then entered into Undocumented students and as an educator it was my duty to educate them and make them a future productive member of society. I then talked about Plyer v. Doe and how it was a landmark case in the progression of education for our bilingual learners. I now know that this case is the reason that education in the United States is free no matter what their immigration status is. I briefly brought up the vague if existent plan to transition students to English that came out of the 1923 case Meyer v. Nebraska. I finally got to Lau v. Nichols in 1974 where I had discovered the importance of differentiation. Because of this case we now know that the same is not equal in terms of

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