The course aims at studying the relationship between education systems and multicultural society. We will analyze the challenges faced by schools, administrators, teachers, and students in an increasingly interconnected society. Different bilingual educational models will be studied, and also the transformations of bilingual education over time.

This course delves into the interconnected elements of biliteracy, including the principles and phases of reading and writing development for children who are acquiring literacy in two languages concurrently. It offers a comprehensive approach to the planning, instruction, and evaluation of biliteracy in dual language classrooms.

This course focuses on learning different teaching strategies, and will ask students to develop materials for students at different educational levels (young learners, primary and high school) and analyze their effectiveness in the classroom.

This course focuses on how to plan a learning experience. Curriculum design includes the objectives, results, and skills or competencies that students are expected to acquire, as well as the methodology used and the evaluation of results. We will also look into the inclusion of students with special needs. Within this planning, the materials and activities to carry out inside and outside the classroom are essential. These shall take into account the educational levels, needs, goals, etc. of the course and will focus on the effectiveness of teaching.

This course will teach the most effective techniques and methods to establish a safe and productive learning environment, in addition to observing how the personalities and natures of teachers and students affect behavior and how to improve this.

A significant part of the course will be concerned with identifying the value of various research approaches in relation to the substantive literature in various fields of practice and through this process identify strengths, weaknesses and gaps in the literature of these fields.

In this course, the transformation experienced by our societies through immigration and Globalization will be discussed. The case of Spain will be used to illustrate the social and cultural changes that have occurred in recent years.

This course focuses on the concept of grammar: what is grammar and why teach grammar? If offers a review of parts of speech & tenses & functions, delves into native vs. non-native teachers/educator’s perspectives of grammar, and basic principles and strategies for teaching grammar.