Family Biliteracy Program

Family Biliteracy Program

The Migrant Education, Region IV Family Biliteracy Program (FBP) is designed to develop literacy in Spanish as a springboard to support language development in English. The program is targeted for children pre-k, ages 3-5 and whose primary language is Spanish. The FBP creates opportunities for teachers to reflect on and re-evaluate their teaching practices, for parents to value literacy in the home language as well as the school language, and for students to value biliteracy as a relevant skill.

The primary goals of the FBP for preschool age-children are to:

Engage the migrant family into the school community by valuing the cultural and linguistic assets the family possesses
Integrate the family unit into the educational experience by utilizing the family’s first language to teach and model literacy strategies that families may replicate at home in the absence of the teacher
Incorporate an adult/parenting education component that builds awareness about the value of biliteracy and other school practices

Requirements

· Provision of services for children and families with an active Certificate of Eligibility at time of enrollment.

· Provision of services for three to five year old children.

· Use of highly qualified instructional staff in both the early childhood education and adult education programs.

In addition, both children and parents must actively participate in the program. The Family Biliteracy program must promote biliteracy, in which children and their parents will be together throughout the entire instructional time. Instructors will design culturally and linguistically appropriate activities in which early childhood education and adult literacy theory come together in each other's outcomes and draw from each other's goals.

Specifically

1. Children must take part in early childhood education and school readiness activities.

2. Parents must take part in adult biliteracy activities.

3. Parents must be involved in parenting education.

4. Parent and their children must be involved in interactive literacy activities.

FBP Distance Learning Model: The region will implement a distance learning FBP once a week for all participants starting this Fall. All sessions will be conducted via zoom incorporating synchronous (live teaching) and asynchronous (independent family work) throughout program. The program will consist of 10 sessions. All program materials will be provided to participants.

Session 0: Parent Orientation

Sessions 1-8: Teacher will provide live teaching for 4 books (1 book every 2 sessions).

Session 9: Program Culmination

All LIVE and pre-recorded sessions will be uploaded to this website.

Family Biliteracy Program 2020 Final Flyer.pdf