Teaching Emergent Bilingual Populations in Content Areas

Appalachian's one-year Graduate Certificate in Teaching Emergent Bilingual Populations in the Content Areas provides you with strong grounding in culturally sustainable pedagogy and creative methods for engaging immigrant and refugee in the areas of math, science and multiliteracies.

In North Carolina, about 8% of the student population was born outside the U.S. or speaks a language other than English at home. These students bring rich linguistic and cultural resources to schools, which teachers can learn about and build upon. By participating in this program, you will grow your confidence and ability to create meaningful, inquiry-based, multimodal learning contexts in math and science with a specific focus on multilingual immigrant and refugee youth.

This certificate focuses on the intersections of math, science, and language learning due to lower achievement and participation rates for bilingual students in these fields.

Whether you are a preservice or current classroom teacher, curriculum specialist, or ESL teacher, this certificate will help you grow your knowledge and skills to help young people who are immigrants, refugees, or children of immigrants reach their full potential as multilinguals in K-8 public school classrooms.

Note: This certificate does not lead to North Carolina licensure.

• Submit your graduate application online.
• Pay the non-refundable application fee online.
• Provide names of three references.
• Upload your current resume or vita.
• Submit official scores from the appropriate standardized test (GRE, GMAT, MAT). Test waivers may be available for certain programs.
• Submit unofficial transcript(s) from all colleges or universities from which you earned a degree, or that you have attended within the past five years. Transcripts must be evaluated by a NACES accredited evaluation service(link is external).
• Provide proof of English proficiency.

• Classroom teacher
• Curriculum coordinator
• ESL teacher
• Adjunct professor

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To start a new application to the Graduate School, select "Create an account" under First-time users if you have never had an account with us before and follow the instructions.