Policymakers play a crucial role by creating laws and providing funding that supports assessments for both languages in bilingual education. This ensures that assessments measure proficiency and content knowledge fairly and comprehensively across languages.
Collaboration between teachers, parents, and administrators ensures that assessments address the full spectrum of a student’s development. This approach leads to more tailored instruction, meeting the academic, cultural, and emotional needs of bilingual students.
Administrators support bilingual education assessments by establishing policies that align assessments with the goals of bilingual education programs. This includes providing appropriate resources, professional development for teachers, and ensuring assessments are fair and culturally relevant.
Schools can encourage parents to get involved by providing them with resources, such as materials or workshops, on how to support language development in both languages. This empowers parents to actively participate in their child's bilingual learning journey, even if they are not fluent in both languages.
Teachers can involve parents by maintaining open communication through meetings, conferences, and updates. This approach encourages parents to support their child’s bilingual learning journey at home, even if they don’t speak the second language, by engaging with materials and activities in their native language.
