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Bilingual Authorization Program (BILA)

 

  • The Bilingual Authorization Program at the Education Studies Department is only available to current M.Ed./Credential graduate students enrolled in the M.Ed. Program.

The Education Studies Department at UCSD offers a Bilingual Authorization Program (BILA) in SPANISH for concurrent students enrolled the M.Ed./Credential Program (Multiple or Single Subject) who wish to teach in Spanish and English in a dual language or bilingual setting.

Eligible students will take additional EDS courses during the Professional Preparation Program. The Bilingual Authorization is added to the teaching credential upon completion of the M.Ed/Credential Program or within 5 years from the time students were recommended for the teaching credential at the Education Studies Department, UCSD. 

Information Sessions are included as part of the orientations for incoming graduate students admitted into the M.Ed./Credential Programs.
 

The Bilingual Authorization is added to a Preliminary Multiple or Single Subject Teaching Credential upon completion of all credential requirements, plus the following: 

 

  1. EDS Core Courses Required (no substitutions allowed):

  • EDS 125 (History, Politics & Theory of Bilingual Education) -  Recommended during the foundations program of study, or during the special summer session. 

  • EDS 352A (Bilingual Instructional Practices - I) - during the  Professional Preparation year only.

  • EDS 352B (Bilingual Instructional Practices - II) - during the Professional Preparation year only.

  • EDS 352C (Bilingual Instructional Practices - III) - during the Professional Preparation year only.

  1. Demonstration of proficiency in Spanish (reading, writing, listening and speaking) at the level required by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) through course-embedded assignments (EDS 352ABC), OR through passage of CSET: Spanish Subtest III (test code 147). Proficiency in Spanish equivalent to the Advanced Level on the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) scale as demonstrated in the final portfolio during EDS 352C. 

  2. Satisfactory completion of fieldwork in a bilingual setting as required by CTC (to be completed as part of EDS 369ABC) (MS) or EDS 379ABC (SS) - 20 hours of fieldwork in a bilingual setting (completed as part of M.Ed/MS student teaching or Residency).

Please note that the Bilingual Authorization is optional. It is not a credential program requirement, but an authorization to be added to the Preliminary credential. 

  • All BILA program requirements must be completed while students are enrolled as graduate students in the M.Ed./Credential program.  
 

Note: Bilingual Authorization holders (of any preliminary credential) are authorized to teach stand-alone ELD. Preliminary MS holders can teach ELD within a Multiple Subjects setting only. Preliminary SS holders can teach ELD within their Single Subjects content area only. Both MS & SS can NOT teach stand-alone or departmentalized ELD. See English Learner Authorization.

  • Any questions about the required level of Spanish needed for a Spanish placement, and proficiency level for the completion of the BILA program, please contact Professors:

  • Liz Pappas epappas@ucsd.edu, and Maria Jose Aragon mjaragon@ucsd.edu.

EDS - BILA Slides

Any questions about the administrative process, please contact Giselle Van Luit at (858) 534-2958 or gvanluit@ucsd.edu.