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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Thank-you!