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The Chinese Immersion Program at William Land Elementary School offers an enriching and interactive learning environment.  Students in this program will receive instruction in English and Mandarin and will have equal access to the academic core curriculum.

Goals of the program:

• Students will achieve bilingual proficiency in both English and Mandarin.
• Students will attain high levels of academic achievement in both languages.
• Students will become cross-cultural ambassadors for our school, community, and society.

Beginning in kindergarten and first grade, instruction is provided using the 80/20 model, meaning 80 percent Mandarin and 20 percent English.  In second grade, it is 70 percent Mandarin and 30 percent English.  In third grade, it is 60 percent Mandarin and 40 percent English.  In fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, it is 50 percent Mandarin and 50 percent English.

The Chinese Immersion Program at Elder Creek Elementary School creates an interactive and engaging learning environment where students will achieve bilingual proficiency in both English and Chinese.  Students will reach high levels of academic achievement in both languages and become cross-cultural ambassadors for our school, community and society.  The program uses an immersion method of instruction in which English-speaking students and Chinese-speaking students are placed together in the same class.  Students in this program will receive instruction in English and Chinese while having equal access to the academic core curriculum.

Beginning in kindergarten and first grade, instruction is provided using the 80/20 model:  80 percent Cantonese and 20 percent English. In second grade, it is 70 percent Cantonese and 30 percent English.  In third grade, students are taught 60 percent of the time in Cantonese and 40 percent in English.  Beginning in fourth grade, the students will be introduced to Mandarin, but still primarily taught in Cantonese.  In fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, students are taught 50 percent of the time in Cantonese and 50 percent in English.  Students will then be prepared to further their learning of Chinese in junior high and high school.

Cesar Chavez Intermediate School offers many special instructional programs that help our students be successful. One of our unique programs is our Dual Language Enrichment Program (DLEP) in Spanish and English. We offer our DLEP students the opportunity to become literate in two languages, and by the time they leave our school, they are bi-literate and bilingual in Spanish and English. Instruction is delivered in English and Spanish by subject. Fifty percent of the instruction is delivered in Spanish and the remaining 50 percent is delivered in English according to applicable subjects (English or Spanish language arts, mathematics, social studies and science). Therefore, we have the 50/50 model, and the bilingual teachers are proficient in both languages.

The Dual Language Immersion Program is based on a two-way immersion educational model. This model stresses the following:

• High academic proficiency in two languages
• High academic achievement
• Mastery of the state’s content standards
• Multiculturalism
• Life skills
• Community service

In the area of language arts, the goal is for students to speak, read, and write fluently in both English and Spanish as measured by the state standardized assessments and teacher-developed assessments.

Students in the program have the same access to the academic core curriculum as those children educated in an English only setting. The benefit is that, in addition, the students receive second language instruction.