If you love working with children and adolescents, love other cultures, and are excited about developing your proficiency in a World Language, your skills and highly-qualified status as a Bilingual Education teacher will be much in demand. The Michigan Dept. of Education has reported a dramatic need to hire Bilingual teachers. A Bachelor of Arts in Bilingual Education allows teaching candidates to build a career in language education. Teach English to speakers of other languages, and teach a language of your choice to students in Michigan or around the world.

Learn

You’ll learn to plan and deliver creative, engaging, age-appropriate lessons for K-12 learners and will have many opportunities to practice your skills when teaching small-group lessons to your peers, working individually with special-needs learners, and leading your own students during student teaching.

Opportunities

In addition to the demand for certified Bilingual teachers in Michigan, across the nation, and around the world, teacher certification and teaching experience provide the foundation for graduate degrees in counseling, educational assessment, educational leadership, and school administration. Completion of the major will allow you to enter the teaching profession directly, or to continue in many graduate programs, or to pursue careers in fields as varied as tourism, business, retail, fashion, the arts, homeland security, government, and many others.