ESOL
PROGRAMS
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CHANGES IN
THE ESOL PROGRAM
In June 2008, the North Carolina State Board of Education approved the adoption of the WIDA Consortium English Language proficiency standards and an English proficiency test aligned with those standards. ESOL teachers were trained on the new assessments and standards in August and September 2008.
With the new standards and assessments there are new proficiency levels. They are as follows: Level 1-Entering, Level 2- Beginning, Level 3-Developing, Level 4- Expanding and Level 5-Bridging. These leves are replacing the Novice, Intermediate, Advance and Superior levels on the IPT. Students who took the 2008 IPT test will maintain their IPT proficiency levels until they are assessed with the annual ACCESS for ELLs in February. Newly enrolled students who are assessed with the W-APT will be assigned the new proficiency levels. If you would like more information on the new proficiency levels, W-APT and ASSESS test, or the English language standards, contact the ESOL teacher at your school.
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SIOP
SHELTERED INSTRUCTION OBERVATION PROTOCOL
What is Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol?
It is a research-based model that makes grade-level content more accessible for English Language learners while at the same time promoting their English language development.
The strategies and practices of this model also benefit native English speakers.
Last year, the ESOL Department of the Rowan-Salisbury School System sponsored a Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Train the Trainer workshop for classroom teachers, ESOL teachers and administrators for the following schools: China Grove Elementary, Hurley Elementary, Knollwood Elementary, Landis Elementary, Southeast Middle, and Salisbury High. Each school team is responsible for training their school staff on SIOP beginning in August. SIOP training fro ESOL teachers is scheduled for October 14 and December 17, 2008.
STRATEGIES THAT ARE EFFECTIVE FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Grade Levels: 3-12
Subject Levels :All
Grouping Configuration: Partners, Small Groups, Whole Class, Individual
Materials: Informational or expository text duplicated on paper students can write on.
Description:
In partners, students read a nonfiction article using the following coding system, inserting the codes directly into the text they are reading:
- A check ( ) mark indicates a concept that or fact that is known by the students.
- A question(?) indicates a concept or fact that is confusing or not understood.
- An exclamation mark (!) indicates something that is new, unusual or surprising.
- A(+)indicates an idea or concept that is new to the reader.
When the partners have concluded reading and marking the text, they share their markings with another set of partners. As misconceptions or misunderstandings are cleared, the question mark is replaced with an asterisk (*). Following this small group work, the text is discussed with the teacher and the whole class.
4-Corners Vocabulary
Grade Levels: All
Subject Levels: All
Grouping Configurations: Partners, small groups, whole class
Materials: Large piece of chart paper folded in fourths; students may also fold an 8-1/2 X11 sheet of paper in fourths for a personal 4-Corners Vocabulary activity.
- Corners or areas of the classroom are designated for focused discussion of four aspects of a topic.
- Students individually think about the topic for a short time.
- Students go into the corner of their choice and discuss the topic.
- At least one student from each corner shares about the corner discussion.
Inside-Outside Circle
Grade Lavels: All
Subject Levels: All
GroupingConfigurations: partners, small groups, whole class
Materials: Information for students to share orally (written information, pictures, illustrations, white boards, etc.)
- Students stand in concentric circles facing each other.
- Students in the outside circle ask questions; those inside answer
- On a signal, students rotate to create new partnerships.
- On another signal, students trade inside/outside roles.
Numbered Heads Together
Grade Levels: 3-12
Subject Areas: All
Grouping Configuration: Small groups within a whole class setting
Approximate Time Involved: 30-45 minutes
Materials: A numbered spinner
- Students number off within each group.
- Teacher prompts or gives a directive.
- Students think individually about the topic.
- Groups discuss the topic so that any member of the group can report for the group.
- Teacher calls a number and the student from each group with that number reports for the group.
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Learning Express
TT he ESOL Parent Resource Center has created a take-home educational activity for students K-12.
Learning Express is a carry out system where parents check out a large tote bag, age and grade level appropriate, educational materials such as: The Quantum Leap Frog Pad, flash cards, Phonics Activity Sets, Hot Dots, Bingo games, board games on comprehension, puzzles for strengthening visual and fine motor skills, activities for vocabulary development, and many more resources.
Our main objective is to target our novice low and novice high English proficiency ESOL students to increase their level of learning so they can more easily achieve English proficiency.
P.A.T.C.H.
PROGRAM
Parents Actively Teaching Children at Home
The ESOL program is sponsoring a parent involvement preschool program called P.A.T.C.H. (Parents Actively Teaching Children at Home) the purpose of the P.A.T.C.H is to actively engage parents in helping their four year old children get a good start to learning before entering kindergarten. Participating families will receive a P.A.T.C.H. box of learning materials that include
books, games, tape recorders, blocks, crayons, sequencing cards, lace and trace games, etc. Parents training on the use of these materials will be provided.
The P.A.T.C.H Goals
- To provide training and materials to parents of preschool-aged children to enable them to support learning in the home.
- To assist parents and students in building positive attitudes toward learning and school.
- To provide parents with information on available community resources whish impact learning
- To provide parents a network to share and receive ideas on effective educational practices.
The Language Center
This year the ESOL Parent Center is focused on technology and improving students and parents skills.
We invite parents to visit the ESOL Parent Center and take advantage of the Language Center to help you learn English.
The Language Center /Computer Lab is open to all ESOL parents who are interested in learning English and basic computer instructions, with connections to the internet. With a multitude of educational programs, the ESOL personal can help you get on the infromation superhighway in no time.
The Language Cent er...
- is a free service provided by the Rowan-Salisbury School System's ESOL Program.
- provides written translation and interpretation services to promote positive relationships between English speaking faculty and non-English speaking parents/students.
- has 10 computers and software for parents and students to use.
- has books, audi tapes, educational games, leap frog and many other materials for families to check out for use in their homes.
- offers the Achieve Now Take Home Program ( parents receive a play station with software to use at home.)
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Language Center
Educational Resources
Computers
Rosetta Stone Language Learning
Lightspan Adventures
Leap Frog
Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing software
Baileys' Book House, Phonics Alive, The Sound Blended,
Storybook Weaver Deluxe, Kids Phonics, Reader Rabbit, Carmen San diego, ABC Letter Sounds, Just Grandma and Me, Failure Free, Rosetta Stone, and many more.
The Language Center Resource Books
| Star fall books | Books on tapes |
| Failure Free | Dictionaries |
| Novels | Read-Along Kits |
| Bilingual Fables | NC EOG Coach |
| Classics (books) | Troll Talking Picture Dictionary |
| Oxford Monolingual Dictionary |
ESOL
Parent Educational Center
314 North Ellis Street
Salisbury, NC
Telephone: (704) 630-6131
Fax: (704) 638-3546
Hours
Monday - Friday
From 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 P.M.
Los Lazos
Los lazos is a newly created volunteer program for parents in selective schools.The process of educating students involves the school and the home working together. Together we can increase the learning opportunities available for the students.
The group of parents will be able to assist their school with many tasks at hand, such as: book sales, picture day, volunteers for field trips, phone calls, daytime events, assist with art displays, and many more tasks.
Parents will be trained to follow all guidelines set forth by the school system to ensure a positive relationship between parents and the school, for the benefit of our students.
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LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE DEFINITIONS
AND PROFICIENCY LEVELS
Following are the new English language proficiency levels and definitions. They replace the former terms: novice low, novice high, intermediate low, intermediate high, advanced and superior. DPI will develop new exit criteria for LEP students based on multiple criteria.
6-Reaching |
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5- Bridging |
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4-Expanding |
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3-Developing |
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2-Beginning |
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1- Entering |
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