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Title: ESL PROGRAM OVERVIEW


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ESL PROGRAM OVERVIEW

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ESL Student Identification
  • http//www.p12.nysed.gov/biling/bilinged/pub/LEPpr
    oc.pdf ELL Identification Chart
  • When a new ESL student enters a school district
  • The parents complete a Home Language
    Questionnaire and ESL teacher administers
    Informal Interview Questions
  • http//www.p12.nysed.gov/biling/bilinged/pub/hlq.h
    tml
  • The student is tested by the ESL teacher using a
    LAB-R Exam (to be replaced by the NYSITELL Exam
    on February 1, 2014), if indicated.
    http//www.p12.nysed.gov/assessment/lab_r/

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Parent Letters Conferences
  • Principals mail parent letters home each
    September telling parents that their child is
    enrolled in an ESL program.
  • Sample Parent Letter http//www.ocmboces.org/tfil
    es/folder732/Sample20Parent20Letter20-2015420
    new.pdf
  • ESL parents participate in a Fall ESL Parent
    Orientation and parent conferences held during
    the year.

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Update-ESL Progression Levels
  • http//www.engageny.org/resource/new-york-state-bi
    lingual-common-core-initiative
  • Currently 4 Progression Levels
  • Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Proficient
  • 5 New Proposed Progression Levels
  • Entering, Emerging, Transitioning Expanding, and
    Commanding
  • The Department is seeking to complete the writing
    of the Progressions by the summer of 2013 to
    present to the Regents for their consideration.
  • http//www.regents.nysed.gov/meetings/2013Meetings
    /February2013/213p12d3.pdf

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NYS Assessments
  • All ESL students must take and pass the ELA,
    Math, and Science assessments-with
    accommodations.
  • NYS now requires ESL students with more than one
    year in US schools by April 1, to take both the
    ELA assessment-with accommodations, and the
    NYSESLAT.
  • All students must take the Regents
    exams-with accommodations.
  • http//www.p12.nysed.gov/assessment/schedules/home
    .html 2012-13 Exam Dates

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State Assessments Regents
Accommodations For Students
  • Extended time (1 ½ time)
  • Use of bilingual glossaries or electronic
    translators
  • Tests translated into Chinese, Haitian, Creole,
    Russian, and Spanish (by NYSED)
  • Allowing simultaneous use of English and native
    language versions of the test (if desired by
    student).
  • Test translated by an interpreter, if it is a
    rare language.
  • http//www.p12.nysed.gov/assessment/ac-general/arc
    hive/flep-accommodations10-08.pdf

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NYSED Bilingual Glossaries
  • Developed by NYSED in several languages for use
    in state exams and in classrooms.
  • Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Bosnian,
    French, Korean, Polish, Bengali, Serbo-Croatian
  • http//www.p12.nysed.gov/biling/bilinged/bilingual
    _glossaries.htm

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Foreign Language Credit
  • ESL students can earn up to five (5) units of
    credit for schooling in their home language from
    age 11. Students must produce a transcript/grades
    that show they were attending school from the age
    of 10 and be passing
  • 3 units at age 11
  • 4 units at age 12
  • 5 units at age 13 or older
  • www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/lote/documents/lote-qa.pdf
    See item 31

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Credit for ESL Class
  • High School ESL students can earn graduation
    credits for ESL class.
  • Each district can decide the specifics regarding
    ESL credits earned.
  • http//www.monroe2boces.org/files/2271/granting20
    esl20and20lote20credit20for20ells.pdf

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Annual NYSESLAT Exam
  • http//www.p12.nysed.gov/assessment/nyseslat/
    2013 NYSESLAT Guide
  • Includes testing in Reading, Writing, Speaking,
    and Listening taken over a 4 day period.
  • Six testing levels K, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-12
  • Exams are given in April May.
  • The scores arrive in July.
  • Test results are used to determine the required
    minutes of ESL per week
  • http//www.p12.nysed.gov/biling/docs/LAPtable12-09
    .pdf ESL Time Requirements

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Threefold Challenge of ESL Students
  • Grasping knowledge, skills, and attitudes
    specific to the subject areas
  • A better command of the English language
  • An ability to interact with others and function
    within the social environment of the school

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How Can Parents Help?
  • Make reading part of the childs daily routine.
    Read to children in either English or in his/her
    native language.
  • Take your child to the library and encourage the
    child to borrow books.
  • Schedule time every day for the child to do
    homework and provide a quiet place.
  • http//www.colorincolorado.org/guides/readingtips/
    Reading Tip Sheets for Parents
  • http//www.colorincolorado.org/guides/teachertips/
    Teacher Tip Sheets

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BICS
  • Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)
  • Can be acquired in fewer than two years.
  • If only an oral assessment is done, the student
    may appear as commanding the English language.
  • http//www.unco.edu/doit/Model20Courses/EDI20112
    _Introduction20to20BICS.pdf Introduction to
    BICS and CALP

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CALP
  • Cognitive/Academic Language Proficiency Skills
    (CALP)
  • Skills needed to succeed in areas such as
    reading, writing, math, science, social studies
  • CALP will often require five-ten years for ESL
    student to perform at grade level

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How Long Can a Student Receive ESL Services?
  • Up to three years unless
  • An annual extension is requested from the
    Commissioner for up to six years. Then student
    become a Long-Term LEP.
  • If a student scores as Commanding on the
    NYSESLAT, he/she exits ESL and performance is
    monitored for two years.

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Comprehensible Inputhttp//www.everythingesl.net/
inservices/comprehensible_input_output_70140.php
  • Understandable messages, called
  • comprehensible input, are not
  • communicated by words alone.
  • Use multisensory input visuals, realia,
    drawings, gestures, role-plays, graphic
    organizers.
  • Model, demonstrate, restate and simplify
    language introduce key vocabulary before the
    lesson.

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ESL Resources
  • ESL in a Nutshell http//www.ocmboces.org/tfiles/
    folder1739/ESL20in20a20Nutshell2.pdf
  • For Teachers Students http//www.monroe2boce
    s.org/professionalDev.cfm?subpage2266
  • Academic Vocabulary
  • http//www.fresno.k12.ca.us/divdept/sscience/Voca
    bulary/EnglishVocabulary.pdf
  • NYSUT Parent Guides
  • http//www.nysut.org/files/research_110412_R337_11
    _ELL_brochure.pdf
  • Helping Your Child Succeed in School
  • http//www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html
  • Parent Guide to the NYSESLAT
  • http//www.p12.nysed.gov/apda/nyseslat/brochure/ho
    me.html
  • Parent Guide to the Common Core
  • http//www.pta.org/4446.htm
  • 10 Ways-Promoting Reading at Home
    http//www.ocmboces.org/tfiles/folder732/1020Ways
    0001.pdf

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