1. Bilingual Programs in Andalucía and Castilla - la Mancha Authors: Silvia Collado Salas Victoriano Pimentel Mª Dolores Jaime Desirée Peña Muñoz Raúl Herschel Elena Fdez Añover

2. Bilingual centers in CLM An important step towards bilingualism was the European Section Program for Kindergarten, Primary and Secondary schools in 2005. Students can choose to study different subjects in English.

5. Requirements to become a teacher in a bilingual High School in Castilla - la Mancha 1) To hold a higher education degree. 2) To have a teaching certificate (CAP) or a Master's degree 3) To have certifications proving linguistic competence of B2 or higher within the European Reference Framework for Languages. To do that, teachers need to legalize their certificates (national or international certificates) through the “ Conserjería de Educación, Ciencia y Cultura de CLM”

8. 4) The plan takes into account also adults and foreigners, and includes Spanish courses in Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas , Adults Centers and so on. 5) To teach Spanish to foreigners but always maintaining their culture. In order to do that, agreements have already been made with Rumania and Morocco. 6) Everybody has the right to take an official exam and to obtain a certificate assessing their competence level. 7) Library resources will be revised in order to update language resources. The results of the plan are evaluated every year. Multilingual Plan in CLM (2009-2013)

9. Andalucía: Pioneer in Foreign Language Teaching Andalucía was the first region to carry out an experimental program to teach one foreign language in the second cycle of Kindergarten education and first cycle of Primary education. (Orden de 8 de febrero de 2000- BOJA de 11 de marzo). Bilingual Centers in Andalucía

11. Bilingual Centers in Andalucía New added Spanish-English centers in Andalucía for the year 2011:

12. Bilingual Centers in Andalucía

13. Search for bilingual centers in Andalucía: http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/averroes/impe/web/buscadorCentros?es_inicio=si&idMenu=mE2&idSeccion=27411 Bilingual Centers in Andalucía

14. Requirements to become a teacher in a bilingual school in Andalucía 1) To hold a teacher education bachelor degree or any other higher education degree. 2) To have a teaching certificate (CAP) or Master's Degree in Secondary Education, in the case of Secondary School Teaching. Except Primary School and Vocational Schools. 3) All foreign language studies must be legalized through the “ Consejería de Educación de Andalucía ” or all its “ Delegaciones o Subdelegaciones provinciales de Educación de Andalucía ”.

17. Integrated Curriculum The new curriculum in the linguistic field follows the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, making foreign language studies homogenous. Plurilingual Plan in Andalucía

18. European Language Portfolio (ELP) It is a document in which students record their progress and their language learning experience. Plurilingual Plan in Andalucía