Is each school subject (math, reading, writing, etc.) taught in both languages or does it vary and is the curriculum in both languages?
We began by assigning each subject area to either the Spanish or the English partner teacher, and we still assign the responsibility fro making sure that area of the curriculum is covered to one teacher or the other. But we have found over the years that some parts of the curriculum lend themselves better to one language or the other (For example, although I am in charge of math, and do all of the math assessment for the report card, it just makes more sense for my English partner to teach money in English). The division changes from grade to grade, too – for example, in kinder I am doing most of the science, but in other grades the English teacher does. We have, then, become very flexible, as, logically, one really can’t, and shouldn’t, separate areas of the curriculum anyway. At the very least, the other partner teacher should support (for example through compatible literature) what the other is doing. What we never should do is repeat a lesson that was taught in one language in the
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