NM ELD Standards

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NM ELD Standards

• Education Secretary García states
• ELD Standards developed by state taskforce of NM
  educators led by professional team from World
  Class Instructional Design and Assessment Team
  (WIDA) from the University of Wisconsin are
  official, in statute and ready to be implemented
  in all schools (August 31, 2009)
• Purpose
• Ensure that all English Language Learners (ELL)
  receive best practices in ELD and core academic
  content area instruction
• Ensure that the transition and implementation of
  the adopted ELD Standards is successful in order
  to close the achievement gap for all learners

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New ELD Standards...

• Comply with the requirements of NCLB
• Align with state and national academic content
  standards (curriculum, instruction and
  assessment)
• Address separate language domains and grade level
  clusters
• Represent the expectations of English Language
  Learners to achieve academic parity with their
  proficient English peers

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How are these ELD Standards Different?

• Are specific to grade levels
• Address the separate language domains of
  listening, speaking, reading and writing
• Target five developmental stages in language
  development
• Incorporate the necessary development of
  informal, social language and academic language
  of core content areas to achieve academic success

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Role of Language Teachers

• Collaborate with mainstream teachers, in
  curriculum planning, co- or pre-teaching (key
  concepts and academic language)
• Consult with mainstream teachers about how to
  scaffold and model instruction and how to assess
  progress in less language dependent ways ( e.g.
  Graphic organizers, separate grades for
  content/skill vs. language on assignments, etc.)
• Teach language and content as an integrated whole
• Begin lesson planning with standards-based goals
  for the content area(s) and supporting language
  objectives

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Role of Classroom/Content Teachers

• Understand that educating English Language
  Learners is a shared responsibility
• Be familiar with the basics of language
  acquisition, how long it takes and how culture
  affects learning
• Pay attention to the language of the content area
• Know how to scaffold and model instruction and
  how to assess progress in less language-dependent
  ways
• Work with language education teachers on a
  regular basis to coordinate instruction to
  maximize success of English Language Learners

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