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| Home / College Guide / Initiative aims to train bilingual, Indigenous language teachers for early child |
| Posted on Friday, April 16 @ 00:00:42 PDT |
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Part of the ECECD’s budget for the coming fiscal year includes $7 million that will go to New Mexico public colleges and universities to recruit and support bilingual and indigenous teachers. The ECECD is working in collaboration with the state’s Higher Education Department.
The schools can use those funds to set up endowments to hire more faculty and staff for their departments; add courses focused on multi-cultural early childhood education, which includes bilingual classes; and implement new recruitment strategies focusing on diversity.
The director of an early childhood center in the Cochiti Pueblo said this could be crucial in addressing educational inequities in our state and to help preserve native languages. But, she wants to make sure tribal leaders are part of the conversation about how this could roll out.
“Those are sovereign nations that have the right to determine what education looks like for their children. They absolutely want to be part of designing education settings,†Keres Children’s Learning Center Director Trisha Moquino said.
The two departments say they want to hear from higher education institutions about what types of creative and innovative ideas they have for this initiative.
That will help the state determine which schools will get the funding.
The state also offers several scholarships and financial options for early childhood educators, including the Grow Your Own Teacher Scholarship, the Teacher Preparation Affordability Scholarship, and the Teacher Loan for Service and Loan Repayment Programs. For students to become eligible or to learn about these opportunities, they can fill out the free application for Federal Student Aid , or FAFSA, and they can inquire within their college or university to find out more about it.
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