Georgetown University has been awarded six Title VII traineeships under
the department of Education's Bilingual Education: Teachers and Personnel
Grants for the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program in English as a
Second Language and Bilingual Education. The District of Columbia Public
Schools and Arlington Public Schools in Virginia are cooperating partners.
The LEA program coordinators will also play an active role. The goals of
this project are: (1) professional development for bilingual education
teachers and other educational personnel through the Master of Arts in
Teaching English as a Second language (ESL) and Bilingual Education (BE)
degree program at Georgetown University; (2) an individually-designed
practicum for each grant recipient that meets both student and LEA
professional needs; (3) school-based research opportunities for grant
recipients to develop their Master's Research Paper on an appropriate
topic in bilingual education or ESL; and (4) professional development for
bilingual education teachers in the areas of teacher training, program
administration, research and evaluation, curriculum development, and
specialized courses for teachers in participating LEAs in such topics as
applied linguistics, language acquisition, methodology, bilingualism, and
ESL. Through Georgetown University's Department of Linguistics and the
School of Summer and Continuing Education.
These are tuition-only traineeships. Unfortunately there is no stipend.
For this first year, tuition for academic year 1999 and for the summer
2000 will be covered. For the academic year 1999-2000, this amounts to
$20,280, and for the summer, $2,950, for a total of $23,230. Applicants
must have competence in Spanish sufficient to enable them to follow (at
least) 2 courses in Spanish (structure, preferably) in the Spanish
language itself. These courses are available from Georgetown's Department
of Spanish and Portuguese. Applicants must also agree to teach or
administer in schools with large minority-student populations for a period
of time equivalent to the length of their traineeship. Preference will be
given to qualified minority applicants and applicants from historically
under-represented populations. Candidates must be U.S. citizens
or permanent residents. They must be full-time students (minimum
of 9 semester hours). Candidates for the traineeships must also
meet the requirements for admissions to Georgetown's Graduate School,
Department of Linguistics, and Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Applicants should communicate immediately with: James E. Alatis, PhD,
Director, MAT in ESL and Bilingual Education, Department of Linguistics,
Georgetown University.
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Enrique Gili
Hispanic American Village
The Minorities' Job Bank
http://www.minorities-jb.com/hispanic.htm