As you prepare to take the CSET LOTE Spanish Subtests IV and V to qualify for Bilingual Authorization on your California Teaching Credential, study the following information carefully until you clearly understand the importance of the concepts and prepare yourself to be a highly qualified Bilingual Credentialed Teacher. This information will take several months or years of consistent, intense efforts on your part to master. I suggest forming a study team.
I organized and gathered this information starting as a team leader to develop tests for the Bilingual Certificate of Competence Exam for the Tulare County Bilingual Bicultural Consortium. I continued updating the information as I worked with districts near me to develop their Bilingual Master Plans. After I retired, I taught at California State University, Fresno in the bilingual credentialing program. I also assisted Tulare County Department of Education with their CSET LOTE Spanish test preparation classes.
CSET LOTE QUOTES. Sources include California Department of Education, Dual Language university textbooks, and a variety of web sites.
CSET LOTE BIBLIOGRAPY. As much as possible, I tried to look at information that was available during the time the CSET LOTE tests were written and implemented.
BILINGUAL SPECIAL EDUCATION. A group presentation for AS 170, CSU, Fresno. March 1988. Submitted by Norma Gonzalez, Stanley A Lucero, Teresa Mendez, and Maria Rodriguez.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Use the following books as sources of information for your dual language classroom
Bilingualism and Special Education: Issues in Assessment and Pedagogy. Cummins, Jim. 1985
Californians Together presents The Seal of Biliteracy ProgramCalifornians Together. 1998. Long Beach
Dual Language Education for a Transformed WorldThomas, Wayne P. and Collier, Virginia P.Dual Language Education of New Mexico Fuente Press, Albuquerque. ISBN 978-0-9843169-1-5
Mulicultural Education in Practice. Transforming One Community at a TimeEdited by Gallardo, Olivia M. and Ramirez, Lettie, 2012CABE & Velazquez PressISBN 1-59495-068-7
Realizing the Vision of Two-Way ImmersionHoward, Elizabeth R. and Sugarman, Julie, 2007Center for Applied LinguisticsISBN 1-932748-61-X