January 19, 2006 1:15 2:15 pm Austin Middle School

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January 19, 2006 115 -215 pmAustin Middle
School

• Mrs. Cynthia Bean
• Avalyn Balliet
• Carolyn Yarbrough

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• Demographics
• Philosophy Shift
• Leadership
• Expectations Set
• Specialized Training
• Implementing Strategies
• Building Climate Change
• ESL Structure
• Specialized Programs

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• You cant change the kids you get,
• but you can change the way you
• teach the kids you get!
• -- Avis Balliet, SFA social studies teacher

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• Disaggregated data
• Recognized needs
• Modeled effective school correlates
• Professional Development
• Department chairs trained as trainers
• Supported campus pull-out and sub pay
• Shared leadership

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• Failure rates
• Planning and Instruction
• Special needs students

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• If you teach at Stephen F. Austin, YOU ARE an
  ESL teacher!
  
• ---Principal, Cynthia Bean

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• Building-wide focus on Reading

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• Mentors for new teachers
• Accountability for competency

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• Understanding OUR students
• Ruby Payne- A Framework for
• Understanding
  Poverty
  

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• What are their needs,
• and how can we meet them?
• ESL Strategies for Content Area Teachers
  (Center for Applied Linguistics)
  
• Dr. Judy Jameson
• TESA (Teacher Expectations-Student Achievement)

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Giving students the tools to succeed!

• Thinking Maps
• SIOP
• (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol)
• Book-n-Brain

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• VOCABULARY
• acquisition and comprehension

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• It is ALL about

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• WORD
• WALLS

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• Jigsaw
• Peer Tutoring
• Carousel Gallery Walk
• Thinking Maps
• Think-Pair-Share
• Teach the Text Backwards

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• RAD (Reading Across the Disciplines)
• Main IdeaVIP (very important point)
• One sentence summaries
• Previewing
• Graphics

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• Jump Start the learning
• Building background
• Pre-teach vocabulary
• Artifacts

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• Jump Start the learning
• Simulations
• Realia

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• Jump Start the learning
• Experiential exercises tie learning to
  emotions
  
• Kinesthetic learning

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• Focused on Student Achievement
• Instruction is data driven
• Focus the students and faculty on academics
• zero tolerance regarding discipline
• emphasis on free reduced lunch program

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• Level 1 ESL
• double blocked in sheltered
• ESL Reading
• ESL Math (6-7th only)
• sheltered ESL English
• Mainstreamed in Social Studies and Science
• (total English immersion)

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• Level 2 ESL
• sheltered ESL English
• ESL Reading
• ESL Math (6-7th only)
• Mainstreamed in Social Studies and Science
• (total English immersion)
• Majority have Reading Improvement Class

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• All ESL 1st time TAKS takers
• are required to take Reading Improvement
• Level 3 ESL no sheltered classes, mainstreamed
  in all classes and specialized classes as needed
  (Math or Reading Improvement, GT, Honors, AP
  Spanish)
• Pre-AP (3 sections for 7th grade) and AP Spanish
  (3 sections for 8th grade)

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• Warm environment to build relationships
• Individualized attention
• Opportunities for tutoring
• Bonding with ESL teachers and specialized ESL
  paraprofessional
  
• Cooperative learning
• Peer-tutoring
• Print-rich environment
• Acquire English very quickly

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• Saturday School
• ESL Summer School Camp
• Pre-AP and AP Spanish summer camp
• Key Connection (going to local businesses)
• Adult ESL and computer classes
• Homework Headquarters
• ECHOS (Every Child Has Opportunities to Succeed)
• KickStart Program-(Chuck Norris program)
• UD (University of Dallas)--Enrichment and Tutoring

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• Collaborative planning
• Cohesive faculty
• Higher student achievement scores
• A mentor school
• Questions
• aballiet_at_irvingisd.net
• cyarbrough_at_irvingisd.net