BEDA Bilingual Project
What is beda Bilingual Inglés Development & Assessment Program?
The BEDA Programme aims to implement and optimize the effectiveness of language teaching at school. And he tries, mainly through three axes: qualitative and quantitative increase de¡ teaching English; scheduling a specific teacher training; and conducting external evaluation of students and members os educational community center with an evaluator agent unquestionable prestige as CAMBRIDGE ESOL. It consists of a gradual introduction of Spanish-English bilingual education in the Agreed Schools FERE-CECA Madrid and has the character of educational project that strengthens and expands certain aspects (je ed linguistic educational life of the Centre, the curriculum and! School environment. Models
This model launches different strategies to create an environment that promotes English in the center creating a new organizational model that promotes changes in its organization and incorporates within its educational project the foreign language. Makes substantial changes in the learning of foreign languages both curricular and methodological, and prioritizes complementary and extracurricular activities that promote English. The teachers involved in the program to a training process and students joined morivadora assessment process that allows the use of different languages to communicate.
When a Centre joins the “bilingual model” of BEDA program is because it already has a track record of empowering Center in English. Increases the teaching of foreign language in their currículoj ‘a significant number of faculty members are involved in their formation in inglés.Así same conversation assistants are incorporated in the classroom and enhances the evaluation of both the faculty and the students. The Center has provided a plan of actions that define well his vision of bilingual project, joining initiatives such as the Cell Europe.
This model is characterized BEDA program because the center has a broad educational experience in bilingual education and a dynamic that integrates and develops aspects that favor bilingualism. Participates in different European projects, projects developing training materials and exchanges with other centers. Excellence model provides typical of a bilingual education center and a model of self-organization that affects different Departments and the role of teacher characteristics. Ei bilingual environment prevailing in the center helps the introduction of other languages can be done more easily than developed with English, getting the label of multilingual center in a short space of time.HOW TO ACCESS THE BEDA PROGRAM? AND WHO CAN JOIN?
The incorporation to the BEDA Program will require the presentation, by the interested center, of a project that meets the requirements specified in the corresponding call. These requirements will focus, fundamentally, on a plan for the implementation of English language teaching; on a proposal for teacher training and on an external evaluation project, both of the students and of the project itself. An Evaluation Commission constituted for this purpose, made up of members of the secretariat of Escuelas Católicas de Madrid and professionals of the BEDA Program, will be in charge of the selection of the centers, as well as their annual review.
The incorporation into the BEDA Program implies, for the schools admitted, the right to continuous advice from the management team and those in charge of the program; the right to ongoing training, offered by the Pedagogical Department of FERE-CECA MADRID with the collaboration of the Macmillan publishing house; and the application of an external evaluation of the students and of the Center’s own project through Cambridge ESOL. Likewise, the incorporation to the BEDA Program will allow the center to display, in the public place it deems appropriate, a plaque acknowledging such participation.
CONVERSATION ASSISTANT IN OUR SCHOOL
This year we have the presence in the classrooms of Emmet, a young man from Ireland, from Colorado, who is working as a conversation assistant with all the students of the school. Hannah’s presence is a great opportunity for our students and is not only a linguistic enrichment, but also an intercultural one. Every week the students have a session dedicated to oral expression, guided by the assistant.
The assistant’s work is coordinated with the English teachers, so that their activities are designed to reinforce the grammatical content and vocabulary seen in the classroom. With the younger children we work through stories and songs, working on phonetics.
Day by day, with the help of the assistant, the students go deeper into learning and perfecting the English language and learning more about British culture.
We hope to learn a lot of English with your help!
with the collaboration of the Macmillan publishing house; and the application of an external evaluation of the students and of the Center’s own project through Cambridge ESOL. Likewise, the incorporation to the BEDA Program will allow the center to display, in the public place it deems appropriate, a plaque acknowledging such participation.