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N" addresses "exas bilingual teacher demand
Bilingual
program
offers teaching
certificates
By Andrew McLemore
Staff Writer
In an attempt to fulfill
the desperate need for bilin-
gual teachers in Texas, NT's
College of Education is offering
a program open to all students
interested in bilingual educa-
tion.
Students can earn a proba-
tionary teaching certificate
and a job almost anywhere
in Texas if they learn to speak
both English and Spanish.
The Bilingual and English as
a Second Language Program
seeks to address the rising
population of Hispanics in
Texas by supplying teachers
to areas that have large
populations of monolingual
students.
Adjunct professor Martha
Morolez-deAnda has taught
in the bilingual department
for five years and said there
is a need for more bilingual
teachers. Morolez-deAnda said
many bilingual teachers are not
trained as well as they should
be.
"You can be a bilingual
teacher and have no earthly
idea of what's expected of you,"
she said.
Morolez-deAnda said
students in her class learn to
create tests and are graded
on their test's effectiveness.
She also teaches them how to
administer assessments that
determine the deficiencies
in literacy so future teachers
can know what to focus on in
class.
"You need to know what the
students know, not what the
students do not know," she
said. "We need good bilingual
teachers."
Morolez-deAnda brings
many guest speakers to class
during the semester to commu-
nicate the need for bilingual
teachers across Texas. She said
the speakers come from Dallas,
Fort Worth and Carrollton
among other places.
"I want them to know what's
expected of them," Morolez-
deAnda said.
Students can be a little hesi-
tant at the beginning of the
course because they are not
yet fluent in both English and
Spanish, but they feel more
comfortable the more they
practice, she said.
The Bilingual and ESL
program offers only Spanish and
English as second languages,
and Morolez-deAnda said there
is a need for certification in
many more languages.
"The most important thing is
multicultural awareness," she
said. "There's a great need for
other languages."
Undergraduate and grad-
uate students can partici-
pate in the program, which
offers two tracks to certifica-
tion. The first is ESL, which
focuses on teaching students
to speak English. The second is
the bilingual track, which takes
an entirely different approach
to instr uction.
"The bilingual track uses
both the student's native
language and English as the
media for instruction in all or
part of the school curriculum,"
said Diana Fonner, administra-
tive assistant to the Bilingual
and ESL office.
Both tracks teach from early
childhood to the eighth grade
but separate the certifications
into early childhood through
fourth grade and fourth grade
through eighth grade.
Fonner said there are several
hundred students in the under-
graduate program and slightly
less than 50 in the post-bache-
lor's program. Fonner said the
bilingual education depart-
ment, founded in spring 2005,
has pursued extensive adver-
tising in coordination with NT
public relations. The depart-
ment has placed ads through
several university media outlets
including KNTU, Univision and
NTTV.
i unes promotes learning, offers free space to colleges
By Rachel Mehlhaff
Intern
The ubiquitous white head-
phones plugged into students'
ears on campus could soon be
pumping out some different
notes: their class lectures.
Lectures and other educa-
tional items will be available
free through Apple's iTunes
store in a new option called
iTunes U.
"It is a place where univer-
sities can establish a pres-
ence for university content,"
said Patrick Pluscht, director
of the Center for Distributed
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Learning at NT.
The iTunes U service already
has a list of universities that
are a part of the initiative. NT
is not one of those listed yet,
but the university is working
to establish its place at iTunes
U.
A university
has to have a
certain volume
of content
before it can
be added to the
list. NT hopes
to have content
on the service
by the fall,
Pluscht said.
The service
provides both
audio and
video class
materials.
He said he
met with President Gretchen
Bataille and other admin-
istrators Tuesday to discuss
the possibilities iTunes U has
to offer.
Before the service can be
launched, NT has to revise
its copyright policy and have
it approved by the president
and provost.
Pluscht said training would
be offered to faculty and staff
using the service so they know
the copyright guidelines and
what they can
borrow and
how to cite
material.
"One of our
challenges will
be to help our
7 think it will
engage students,
and I know faculty
members are
excited about it.
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implications of
copyright with
multimedia,"
he said.
NT is also
working on
designing
and choosing
content for the
service.
Some NT students shared
their thoughts about iTunes
U.
"People will stop going to
class," Rockwall freshman
Omar Kattan said.
But he said he thought it
would be helpful for students
who miss class.
Janea Ward, a Dallas junior,
said she thought it sounded
like a good idea.
"It might be better for
people that commute," she
said. "It might be helpful for
studying."
Pluscht said he thinks it
will benefit students.
"If we can find ways to fit
education into other spots, we
can help students," he said." I
think it will engage students,
and I know faculty members
are excited about it."
But Pluscht said professors
would have to keep in mind
that not all students are tech-
savvy.
It is about having "the right
combination to reach their
students," he said.
Apple "remains a major
supporter in the education
space," Pluscht said.
The California-based
company has been working
on the application for several
years and formally added it
this year.
Apple provides universities
with the interface and 500
gigabytes of storage, he said,
at no cost to the university.
The cost to the university
is behind the scenes, Pluscht
said.
It is "a 'soft' cost and it has
to do with the time of the
faculty and staff" who are
producing it, he said.
Some Texas universi-
ties already using iTunes U
include Texas A&M, Texas
Tech University and Abilene
Christian University.
"Another neat thing about
it is it's helpful to see what
others are doing that are
innovative," Pluscht said.
He said he is excited about
the opportunities iTunes U
will provide.
This program "will give
faculty members a place to
put multimedia content for
their courses," Pluscht said.
"It will generate the excite-
ment to do so. And it has the
potential to truly engage
students."
Lawyers argue suit against Halliburton
HOUSTON (AP) — Lawyers for
a woman who says she was raped
by co-workers while employed by
a Llalliburton Co. subsidiary in
Iraq in 2005 told a federal judge
Wednesday they believe her case
should be settled by a public trial
and not through a private arbitra-
tion process.
But attorneys for Halliburton,
and its former subsidiary, KBR
Inc., argued the woman signed a
contract that binds her to settle all
claims—including sexual assault
allegations — against her former
employer through arbitration.
U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison
was expected to make a ruling at
a later date.
Jamie Leigh Jones, a former
Conroe resident, filed a federal
lawsuit in May saying she was
rapedby co-workers while working
for a Halliburton subsidiary at
Camp Hope, Baghdad, in 2005.
The Associated Press usually
does not identify people who say
they have been sexually assaulted,
but Jones' face and name have
been broadcast in media reports
and on her own Web site.
Jones' lawsuit claims she lived in
a coedbarracks and, after enduring
harassment from some of the men
in the quarters, was drugged
and raped on July 28, 2005. Her
attackers were Halliburton and
KBR firefighters, the suit alleges.
Jones said a KBR representative
falsely imprisoned her in a ship-
ping container for a day so she
wouldn't report the assault.
Attorneys for Halliburton,
KBR and other subsidiaries that
have been sued have disputed
Jones' allegations. KBR split from
Halliburton last year.
Halliburton's attorneys argued
Wednesday the employment
agreement Jones signed says any
claims made by an employee
against the company that in any
way touch on his or her employ-
ment have to be settled through
arbitration, in which a third party
would resolve the case through a
private hearing process.
The attack was alleged to have
happened in Halliburton-provided
barracks, which ties any claims she
makes to her employment, said W.
Carl Jordan, one of Halliburton's
attorneys.
"It's not employment related
because Jamie is not a 24-hour
employee," saidL. Todd Kelly, one
of Jones' attorneys. "If she had
been on call or required to work
out of her living space, then she
could be seen to be in her work
area."
Kelly also said that when Jones
signed her work contract, she never
imagined that beingfalsely impris-
oned by her employer would be
something she would have to settle
through arbitration.
Jordan said Jones was not falsely
imprisoned after she reported her
alleged attack but instead received
medical care and was able to call
her family.
"Ms. Jones has changed her
account several times," Jordan
said.
Ellison said he worried
Halliburton's attorneys would
argue the alleged rape was tied to
Jones' employment, thus making
it subject to arbitration. But once
in arbitration, the company would
say the alleged assault was not tied
to her work because Halliburton
is not responsible for the conduct
of its employees when they are off-
duty, he said.
"I do hope your client sings the
same song in arbitration, if that's
where it ends up," Ellison said.
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