BUENO Poudre Masters/Endorsement Program
Overview
This is an opportunity for teachers in the Poudre School District to simultaneously earn a Master of Arts in Education, Equity and Cultural Diversity and an English as a Second Language (ESL) endorsement.
The University of Colorado BUENO Center for Multicultural Education was recently awarded a grant through the U.S. Department of Education,
Office of English Language Acquisition to provide teachers an opportunity to earn a Master of Arts degree in Education Equity and Cultural
Diversity and a Culturally (EECD) and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) endorsement (also referred to as the ESL endorsement). The program will begin spring semester of 2017.
This grant program is limited to participation by teachers from the Poudre School District only. Two cohorts of 30 teachers each one Pre-5th/elementary and one 6-12th secondary will be selected by a competitive application process. Tammy Molinar-LeBlanc, Director for this M.A. degree program is seeking applications for this program (see application below). The deadline for applications is December 2, 2016. Questions about this program may be forwarded to: Tammy.Molinar@colorado.edu.
Funding from the grant program covers tuition costs associated with the courses, books are at the expense of the student. Students selected for participation in this project will take one or two courses per semester to complete the 31 hour Master’s program. Format for courses are a combination of traditional and hybrid/online. Below are the course requirements:
Courses
| Course Prefix | Course Title | Sem. Hrs. |
|---|---|---|
| EDUC 5425 | Introduction to Bilingual/Multicultural Education | 3 |
| EDUC 5445 | Curriculum for Multicultural Education | 3 |
| EDUC 5035 | Pro-Seminar: Parent and Community Involvement | 3 |
| EDUC 5435 | Materials & Methods in Bilingual/Multicultural Educ. | 3 |
| EDUC 5455 | Literacy for Linguistically Different Learners | 3 |
| EDUC 5535 | Diagnostic Testing in Bilingual/ESL Education | 3 |
| EDUC 5605 | Research Issues in Bilingual/ESL Education | 3 |
| EDUC 5615 | Second Language Acquisition | 3 |
| EDUC 5625 | Methods for Teaching ESL | 3 |
| EDUC 5595 | Practicum in Bilingual/ESL | 4 |
| TOTAL HOURS | 31 |
Contact
Project Principal Investigator: David NietoProject Director: Tammy Molinar-LeBlanc
Should you have questions or need more information regarding the BUENO Poudre Masters/Endorsement Program please direct inquiries to:
Tammy Molinar-LeBlanc, Program Director
BUENO Center for Multicultural Education
School of Education, 247 UCB
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309-0247
Email: Tammy.Molinar@colorado.edu
Cell: 303-332-5930
Office: 303-492-6043
Fax: 303-492-2883
