English Language Learners

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English Language Learners

• Leigh High School
• Collaboration September 08

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4 Categories

• English Only 87 students
• Initially Fluent English Proficient IFEPs 9
• Born outside the US. CLEDT score Advanced.
  Usually bilingual parents are bilingual and
  educated.
• English Learners EL lt 1 (12 students)
• Redesignated Fluent English Proficient RFEPs
  3
• Completed an ELD program successfully
  reclassified. Monitor academic success for 2
  years.

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English Learners List

• Correction
• The following students should actually be coded
  4 or RFEP
• Higuera, Jessica (12103)
• Hurtadode-Mendoza, Fredy (11942)
• Mendez, Edgard (11939)
• Reyes, Jason (12199)

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CUHSD ELD Master Plan

• District Professional Development
• TransACTtranslated forms
• Parent Waivers EL students at Leigh
• Home Language Survey
• Parent Notification form
• Reclassification form

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Language Development

• Students acquire basic conversational skills
  FIRST
• Academic language skills take 5-7 years
• Fluency in their first language is KEYbaseline
  for fluency in their target language

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EL Students Performance

• ELA scores 66.7
• Math scores 87.5
• EL students are usually mainstreamed into math
  FIRST
• Electives Science NEXT
• English and Social Science LAST

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Wide Range of Variance

• Hard to categorize these students
• Some have oral, but not written native language
  skills
• Some are highly educated in both languages
• Some are struggling culturally with our school
• Some are bright, but cant articulate their
  intelligence, especially orally in class

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High-Quality Instruction

• Makes a BIG difference!
• Understand their linguistic needs
• Allow them to interact with their peers
• Use teaching strategies that benefit ALL the rest
  of your students
• Focus on language acquisition FIRST

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Promote Academic Literacy

• Reflect on the language demands of your course.
  Provide direct instruction on how to read the
  textbook, take notes
• When you establish your learning goals, include a
  language objective. Engage students in
  pre-reading and pre-writing activities to produce
  a better product.

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Promote Academic Literacy

• Emphasize academic vocabulary development.
  Include non-linguistic representations to
  increase your students understanding.
• Activate students prior knowledge or explicitly
  build prior knowledge in its absence (i.e. The
  Civil War)

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Promote Academic Literacy

• Increase your students oral interaction and
  extend their academic talk. Engage students in
  extended discussions to increase their
  comprehensible input.
• Make a point of reviewing new learning each day,
  so students are not exposed to new concepts just
  once.

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Highly Motivated to Learn

• Most EL students will work harder than your
  average students, especially if they are fluent
  in their native language.
• Many EL students have parents who push/support
  them at home to work hard and learn in class.
• Many families arrived to find The American
  Dream

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When you call home

• Dont be surprised if your call is answered by
  someone who speaks another language.
• Politely ask if there is an adult at home who
  speaks English.
• If not, ask to speak to your student. His/her
  parents are watching/listening.
• Reach out and support your EL students.

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Amazing Resources!

• The best one I found (yesterday)
• www.everythingELS.net
• Lists specific challenges that ELs face and
  teacher strategies for
• English
• Math
• Science
• Social Science