Presenters describe curricular and programmatic innovations that supported the development of a cross-cultural community of teacher learners and researchers in an innovative teacher education program at a New York City public university. The Title VII-funded project was designed to bridge the gap between Bilingual and ESL K–12 teacher education.

1. Preparing Master Teachers in Bilingual Education and ESL A Presentation at the Annual Conference of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education Tarrytown, NY March 14, 2009 Presenters: Francis Timothy Walsh, Ph.D. (Timshanny@hotmail.com) and Doris Cintron, Ed.D. (dcintron@ccny.cuny.edu)

2. Getting Started

4. I.Goals and Objectives of the Second Language Learning Master Teacher Development Project Goal : To provide integrated ESL/Bilingual Education training to New York City Teachers Objective #1 : Recruit 72 inservice and 8 preservice bilingual teachers for training in a three-year Masters program in Bilingual Education with additional training in ESL. Objective #2 : Train 72 inservice and 8 preservice bilingual teachers in an intensive three-year Masters degree program in bilingual education, with special emphasis upon course work in ESL theory, teaching methods, and materials. Objective #3 : Confer Masters degrees upon, and grant provisional New York State certification in Elementary Education with a Bilingual Extension to, 1 preservice and 19 inservice teachers. Objective #4 : Place 20 Master Teachers in New York City’s public schools.

8. Some Outstanding Features of the Project

12. A Collaborative Action Research “Event” Planned in the Leadership Seminar

16. Some Participant Data

18. Obstacles Overcome, Lessons Learned

22. Participants’ Suggestions for Change Scheduling The action research. It would flow a lot easier. Instead of having that summer between, and then, as teachers, a whole new, different group of children, and so on. --“Alba,” exit interview Project Content I can’t decide about the leadership. I have to say this. Don’t require it. But yet, I suppose we never would have had that event happen, if we hadn’t had the leadership class. -- “Ellen,” exit interview

25. Fin