Bilingual students provide an interesting challenge to teachers.
In some schools, bilingual instruction is required to help
ensure that children learn the required subject matter, but also
that they stay fluent in both of their languages. This provides
the students with valuable skills later in life, but the
teachers need to come up with specific strategies in order to
teach the various subjects in two languages. Study Units From
Varying Thematic Approaches An important part of bilingualism is
often the varying cultures that exert influence on a student who
is fluent in two languages. In a bilingual school, it is
important that teachers in all subjects find ways to incorporate
subject matter that relates to both of those cultures into their
teaching. For example, in classes like history or social
studies, units should be alternated so that the theme or focus
comes from both cultures and languages, instead of only
originating from a single point of view. Monitoring Language Use
When you teach bilingual student