Community Report (NAEYC 2a) – (10 points)
Choose a community you want to share information about bilingualism. Your community may be your family members and/or friends; educators and/or families you work with; non-profit early childhood organization and/or school boards in your community. To start designing your project first get to know your community.
For my project I chose Newhall School District in Santa Clarita California. But if you are unable to find enough information you can just do Santa Clarita, California.
Submit: Write a report (approximately 500 words) on your chosen community that includes the following information:
EXAMPLE:
Larger Community (e.g., LA County)
The statistics on bilingual populations (or DLLs/ELLs) in the geographical area of your chosen community
Available resources and/or services in your community that support multilingual and multicultural children and families (include their names with brief descriptions as well as their website URLs)
Your Community (e.g., friends, family members, school boards, etc.)
The linguistic background of your chosen community [e.g., How many of them are/were Dual Language Learners (DLLs) or English Language Learners (ELLs)? How many of them are English monolinguals?)
Explanation of why you think your chosen community will benefit from your presentation on bilingualism
A list of interview questions you will use during your presentation. This is an opportunity for you to learn about their experiences in relation to children’s bilingualism, their needs, and/or strengths as members of the community and what they have learned about bilingualism from your presentation (these questions can be asked verbally or through a survey as a written form)
Goals you would like to achieve through this project.
I provided the first two chapters of the book, thats all we have read up until this project. Here are also some links that should help guide you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPSwy0Wa9chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPSwy0Wa9c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTPC73SdRkAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTPC73SdRkA
