Bilingual Education Instructional Services Program

Model Strategies in Bilingual Education: Professional Development:
This report illustrates research-supported principles of professional development with the experiences of communities of scholars, practitioners, and teacher aspirants at selected sites. Project personnel often provided formal evaluation results supporting claims of effectiveness, but his study was not itself an evaluation of outcomes. From the projects described in the report, educators can learn much about how to develop a highly qualified instructional workforce for language minority students. (1995)

Model Strategies in Bilingual Education: Parent Involvement and Family Literacy:
This report offers administrators and teachers examples of many strategies used to work with parents and students with limited English proficiency (LEP). The report profiles nine exemplary sites, selected with the assistance of panel of experts, which exhibit a wide range of parent involvement and family literacy programs. The report suggests promising strategies in areas such as project design and implementation, population targeting and recruitment, staffing, inservice training, instruction and curriculum, and program evaluation. (1993)