- Marcel Proust
History, Politics and Education of ELL's
Who are our ELLs?
- Get to know who your ELL's are
- What are their WIDA scores
- What do they what to go by. (Learn to pronounce their names....correctly)
- ELL's are a large growing population
- Since 1995 the ELL population has grown, by leaps and bounds
- Some of the most common languages:
- Spanish
- Vietnamese
- Hmong
- Cantonese
- Korean
- Other - 455 language
National Demographics and Trends
- 14 million language minority children (Census Bureau, 2006)
- Fastest growing group 12% annually (U.S. Dept. of Ed 2004)
- Achievement gap increasing in reading and math (2007)
- ELL (35%) and Immigrant (48%) students have highest drop out rate
- 76% of Ell's are Spanish speaking
- 85% of ELL's are born in the U.S. Start school in K and 1st grade.
Differences Among ELL's
- Native language(s)
- Level of native language and literacy skills
- this is a great proficiency of how they will be able to learn English.
- Previous schooling experience
- many refugees come form situations where they didn't have the opportunity to go to school. They have no knowledge or foundation of school, and these are the students who really struggle.
- Familiarity with school routines
- Content-area knowledge
- Parental education
- The higher the education of the mother in the family has a positive correlation of how successful the student will be
- How do we get the parents involved? More parent involvement, the better
A Culturally Responsive Classroom
- Welcoming the student in his/her native language
- Providing books in the class that reflect the students that are in your classroom
Different Types of Programs and Services Offered to EL's in School/District
- Imagine Learning
- ESLVideo.com
- Think Pair Share
Language Instruction Educational Programs
All of these programs: Focus is on developing literacy in English
- SDAI (Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English)
- been around for 30 years
- similar to sheltered instruction
- Content - Based ESL
- SIOP
- English Language Development
- ESL Pullout
- Newcomer Programs
- students that are new to the country have a location they go to within the school where they can learn basic English skills.
The following programs: Focus on developing literacy in two languages
- Two-way immersion
- Dual language
- Have a majority language (example: native English speaking students learning Chinese, Spanish, French....Canyons has this program)
- Not very ELL's are in these programs.
- Great programs for students to learn a different language
- Bilingual Immersion
- You have a majority minority group of students. That minority group are taught in their native language, and then are taught English as a second language on top of that.
- Development Bilingual Ed
- Heritage language
Strategies seen in the Dual Immersion video that we could use with ELL students
- repetition
- modeling....lots and lots of modeling
- hand gestures
- pictures
- teach through song
- no pressure to understand everything every time
Common Acronyms
- ELL - english language learner
- ESL - english second language
- L1 - native language of the student
- L2 - language student is learning
- BICS - Basic interpersonal communication skills
- CALP - cognitive academic language proficiency
- SI - Sheltered Instruction
- SIOP - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
Office of English Language Acquisition
- ensure all ELL's, including immigrant children attain English proficiency
- develop and reach high levels of academics attainment in English
- meet the same challenging State academic content and student achievement standards as all children are expected to meet
Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
- ensure equal access to education
- promote educational excellence
Legal Decisions
- Lau v. Nicols 1974
- identical is not equal
- San Francisco chinese-american families sued the district for not providing appropriate instruction for the ELL students
- Plyler v. Doe
- the state (any state) does not have the right to deny free public education to undocumented immigrant children
- Castaneda v. Pickard
- Criteria for programs serving ELL's
- based on "sound educational theory"
- implemented effectively with adequate resources and personnel
- evaluated as effective in overcoming language barriers
Sheltered Instruction
- A means for making grade-level academic content (science, social studies, math) understandable for English language learners while promoting their English language development.
- The practice of highlighting key language features and incorporating strategies that make the content comprehensible to students.
Sheltered Instruction Strategies that you should be using with ELL's (If not, all of our students)
- cooperative learning
- promotes risk taking
- develops social skills
- lowers affective filter
- provides support system
- new ways to solve problems
- hands-on activities
- develop concepts
- supports reading and writing
- interesting and challenging
- may be or lead to assessment
- may be or lead to assessment
- promotes open ended thinking
- visual strategies
- take abstract and make it concrete
- associates vocabulary and concepts
- incorporate into games, activities and tests
- pre-teach key vocabulary
- guard vocabulary
- pay attention to the rate of speech
- repeat key vocabulary
- contextual clues
- allow for student talk time
- Using books
- wordless books
- big books
- picture books
- abc books
- concept books
- multi-cultural books
- content specific books
- trade books/chapter books
- billngual books
ELL Websites
- www.siopinstitute.net - SIOP lesson templates
- www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en - Translate notes from English to other languages
- http://online.culturegrans.com/index.php -Cultural Information on more than 200 countries
- http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/ - National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
- www.cal.org - Center for Applied Linguistics
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