{"id":7851,"date":"2017-09-26T14:37:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=7851"},"modified":"2022-11-11T23:16:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T05:16:10","slug":"bilingual-teachers-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/bilingual-teachers-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilingual Teachers Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/bilingual-teachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">written before<\/a> on the need for more bilingual\u00a0teachers but a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/why-the-race-to-find-bilingual-teachers-because-in-some-states-1-in-5-students-are-english-language-learners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new article<\/a> at the 74, Why the Race to Find Bilingual Teachers, clearly demonstrates the critical need.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are over 5 million students classified as English language learners (ELL).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one in five students who really should have a bilingual teacher but it is the greatest shortage area &#8211; so they are not getting the help they need.<\/p>\n<p>The article does highlight that removing certification barriers is one way to ensure you have a pipeline of qualified bilingual teachers. The second is to recruit from within or &#8220;grow your own&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen this first hand &#8211; many paraprofessionals and substitutes from the community have the ability to become great bilingual teachers. We just have to help them get there.<\/p>\n<p>Our goal this month at Teachers of Tomorrow is help make sure that all our schools have enough bilingual teachers &#8211; so we are offering a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/bilingual-teachers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$100 discount<\/a> on all our programs in all our states.<\/p>\n<p>The need is great &#8211; if you are bilingual and\u00a0have a degree\u00a0we can help you get a classroom of your own!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have written before on the need for more bilingual\u00a0teachers but a new article at the 74, Why the Race to Find Bilingual Teachers, clearly demonstrates the critical need. There &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":7803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-01-22 00:35:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39036,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions\/39036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}