Teacher Aides IDENTIFIERS Arizona

This final report relates to student socialization through a bilingual (Spanish/English) , bicultural program involving 6 second grades in I schools of Phoenix, Arizona, for the 1970-71 school year. As reported, the major objective of the program was to develop and implement a group process anproach to bilingual education; in addition, classroorri instructional personnel were trained by site coordinators. Program success was regarded as outstanding in classrooms having strong administrative support for the program; partial success was achieved in overall efforts to create classroom enviroments and appropriate activities to facilitate small group interaction. The relatively unsuccessful aspects of the program were attributed to lack of (1) bilingual teachers, (2) a true heterogeneous student population, and (3) supporting administration. The document contains discussions of program rationale, the grou