Recent political events in other parts of the world have led to a continuing migration of people from Eastern Europe. This is especially true since events in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have facilitated the immigration of refugees to the Detroit metropolitan area. This demographic change reveals a clear need for bilingual education services for limited English proficient children. The Teacher Education Division , of the College of Education, provides students with the unique experience of teaching in a multicultural urban setting. Our primary objective of the student teaching experience is to prepare students to teach in an urban, multicultural school setting.
All students entering our certification program do their clinical field experience in three phases.
Phases III enables the student to enter directed student teaching. A Bilingual Education faculty member supervises all interns in their clinical field experience. The trainee is assigned to a cooperating teacher with a Bilingual Education endorsement in the target language. The International Component . The trainees have an opportunity, as part of their clinical experience, of participating in a seminar in International Comparative Education.