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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of bilingual is Spanish-English bilingual.  If you could find a school hiring Russian bilingual staff for a bilingual classroom, you might be able to get an emergency certificate and agree to go get a masters within a certain period of time and teach.  ESL teachers are different than bilingual teachers.  ESL does English support as a resource teacher who pushes into classrooms or pulls small groups out of classrooms.  Bilingual is a grade level teacher who teaches a grade level, but in the native language plus helps kids transition over to English.  There's a lot of different models and the details vary by school.

Sped is in high demand.  I'm not sure what your state requirements are, but because of federal sped laws, you probably would actually have to have a sped certification to teach.  (meaning you can't get your degree while teaching, the degree would have to come first)  But some states are kinda backwards and might allow it, who knows how it is where you are.

I'd say Russian, while valuable, is MUCH less in demand for bilingual teachers.  Talk to your state board of education about their certification requirements for each of these.  You can also talk with a university and one of the profs would likely be able to advise you.  Be aware that you are talking about 60+ hours a week of work and for sped, it's more like 70+.  Good luck.  It's a really hard career.  [/quote]

Just to clarify- this person is talking about ESL in elementary school. The model in elementary is that ESL providers push in or pull out and help smaller groups of kids, but they don’t have self-contained classes or classrooms. In middle and high school ESL teachers conduct their own classes. They are the teachers. [/quote]

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