Bilingual Education (Grades K-12) Added Teaching Endorsement

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The Department of Teaching Learning, and Teacher Education offers a dual language endorsement for certified teachers who enroll in one of our programs. To qualify for this endorsement, teachers must be certified (in any subject or area), have an ELL endorsement already, and be accepted to one of our programs. The program follows the standards for the bilingual education endorsement) at the Nebraska Department of Education.

Endorsement TitleDual Language Endorsement

Prerequisite: (Partner)

language proficiency

  • Advanced-mid on OPI oral and written in Spanish (for L1 English speakers)
  • Minimum English proficiency: Paper TOEFL 550, Internet TOEFL 79, IELTS 6.5 (for L1 Spanish speakers)

Prerequisite for program

participation

  • Hold any Nebraska initial certification
  •  Hold or earn concurrently an ELL endorsement
Practicum requirementPracticum requirement
Coursework requirement
  • 18 hours of coursework related to methodology, content literacy and content instruction
    • 9 credit hours in “partner language”
Grade level optionsK-6, 7-12

Required Courses (15 hours)

Course No.Course TitleHoursStandards Met
TEAC 815AFoundations of Dual Language Education33, 7
*TEAC 815JSpanish in the Content Areas32, 4, 5, 6
*TEAC 894C

Practicum: Dual language (must be taken at end of all

courses)

31, 2
TEAC 815EEmerging Bi-literacy (online)3N/A
*SPAN

Choose one from this list:

*SPAN 807 History of the Spanish Language

*SPAN 891 Special Topics: Spanish in Contact with Other

Languages

*SPAN 886 Spanish in the United States: Variation and

Contact

*SPAN 888 Heritage Speaker Pedagogy

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*These courses are taught in Spanish

Elective Courses (3 hours) of Bilingual Education related courses. Note that if one of the Spanish courses was taken as a required course, it cannot be used as an elective.

Course No.Course TitleHoursStandards Met
TEAC 840DImmigrant Families/Schooling and Demographically Transitioning Communities (meets HRT requirement)3N/A
TEAC 815bSchooling and the Multilingual Mind3N/A
*SPAN 807History of the Spanish Language3N/A
*SPAN 891Special Topics: Spanish in Contact with Other Languages3N/A
*SPAN 888Heritage Speaker Pedagogy3N/A
*SPAN 886Spanish in the United States: Variation and Contact3N/A
TEAC 861Education for a Pluralistic Society3N/A

Apply at go.unl.edu/gradapp.

Faculty Contact 

Dr. Theresa Catalano, Ph.D. 

282 Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall 

tcatalano2@unl.edu 

Program Contact 

Joelle Tangen, Graduate Project Associate 

230E Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall 

jtangen2@unl.edu