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The World is in Our Hands

The World is in Our Hands. Rose Tree Media School District ESOL Program 2005-06. ESOL Services. 99 ESOL students new students enter almost every week Indian Lane Elementary – 11 Glenwood Elementary – 13 Media Elementary – 25 Rose Tree Elementary – 8 Springton Lake Middle – 22

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The World is in Our Hands

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  1. The World is in Our Hands Rose Tree Media School District ESOL Program 2005-06

  2. ESOL Services • 99 ESOL students • new students enter almost every week • Indian Lane Elementary – 11 • Glenwood Elementary – 13 • Media Elementary – 25 • Rose Tree Elementary – 8 • Springton Lake Middle – 22 • Penncrest High School - 20 • Students with 27 different languages • Students from 29 different countries

  3. Asian Languages Gujarati Malayalam Marathi Hindi Cantonese Mandarin Burmese Tagalog Korean Vietnamese Cambodian Persian (Farsi) World Languages • European languages • Spanish • French • Polish • Russian • Swedish • Romanian • Hungarian • Italian • Portuguese • Albanian • Greek • Ukrainian • African Languages • Swahili • Twi • Africaans

  4. Argentina Belarus Brazil Cambodia China Colombia Costa Rica France Ghana Hungary India Iran Italy Latvia Liberia Myanmar Pakistan Philippines Poland Puerto Rico Countries of Origin • Romania • Russia • South Africa • South Korea • Sweden • Taiwan • Tanzania • Ukraine • Vietnam

  5. ESOL Testing Instruments • IPT – Idea Proficiency Test • Entrance, Placement, and Exit decisions • SELP – Stanford English Language Assessment • Pennsylvania requirement

  6. BICS & CALPS

  7. Basic InterpersonalCommunicative Skills • Universal aspects of language proficiency that are normally acquired by all native speakers of any language • Usually by ages 5-6, all children have developed BICS in their first language • Language skills needed for every face-to-face comunication (personal and social situations) • Contexts are clear and generally concrete • Not necessarily related to academic success • May take up to 2 years to develop in a second language (L2)

  8. Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency • Those language skills associated with literacy and cognitive development • Language skills required to go beyond ordinary social communication • Cognitively demanding, decontextualized • Language skills needed for reasoning, problem solving, or other cognitive processes required for academic achievement in subject matter • CALP development in a first language (L1) contributes to the development of CALP in a second language (L2) • May take 5-7 years to develop in a second language (sometimes 9-11 years, depending upon L1 CALP, age and other variables)

  9. Communication Tools • Language Line • A “conference call” • District supplied through AT&T • Place the call to LL, tell them the language of the person, their name and phone number • Explain what you will be talking about and any specialized vocabulary you will be using • Translator places the call to the parent • Talk to the parent, giving time for the translator to translate for you. • IT’S EASY!!

  10. Communication Tools • TransACT • A new data base coming to RTMSD soon • Includes all required NCLB forms in many languages • Includes some “housekeeping” forms schools often need

  11. If you get nothing else… • Please think of your students as a RESOURCE for you and your classes • Students are not coming in with a DEFICIT just because they do not speak English. • Students come with a broader WORLD VIEW and EXPERIENCES your native speakers do not have (most likely). • American students can LEARN from the ESOL students as they HELP the newcomers learn English.

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