Bilingual Teacher Program

Office of English Language Learners & Global Languages

In an effort to address the Detroit Public Schools' urgent need for bilingual teachers, non-certified staff who are bilingual, are trained for teacher certification at the elementary and secondary level. To accomplish this, a partnership has been established with the Wayne State University College of Education.

The potential bilingual teachers will serve the largest represented communities, i.e. Arabic, Bengali, Chaldean, Hmong, Romanian, and Spanish speaking, and as English as a Second Language teachers to other language minority students. The long-range goals is that the students serviced by the staff of the Office of Bilingual Education will also seek bilingual education as a career goal in Detroit.

Candidate Requirements

  • Must be a current non-certified employee of the Detroit Public Schools
  • Have completed a minimum of 60 credit hours toward a college degree
  • Must provide official transcripts from all colleges and/or universities attended
  • Have a minimum of a 2.5 cumulative undergraduate grade point average for admission to the College of Education.
  • Must have completed successfully the Michigan Department of Education Basic Skills Test within the first year of the program.
  • Have letters of recommendation from an immediate Detroit Public School supervisor or principal.
  • Be proficient in English and one of our target languages. The target languages are: Arabic, Chaldean, Bengali, Hmong and Spanish.

 

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