English as a Second Language

District Learning DayRidgeway Middle School9:15-11:30 & 12:45-3:00

August 5, Middle & High Schools August 6, Elementary & K-8

Table & chairs Waiter

Café open

Where are you?

Menu

Norms

• Be present and engaged.• Be respectful of differences in perspective

while challenging each other productively and respectively.

• Monitor “air time.”• Make the most of the time we have.• Stay focused on students.

ObjectivesKNOW:

• The necessity of English Language Development (ELD) and content integration

UNDERSTAND• ACCESS scores & uses for differentiation• WIDA standards exist within the content areas• Strategies which can be used to encourage discourse

DO• Lead an activity so that mainstream teachers may chart the ACCESS scores of

students• Share benefits/ uses of instructional strategies presented today with mainstream

teachers• Teach vocabulary using the ExC-ELL method

WIDA Consortium:

www.wida.usDownload library

W-APTWIDA ACCESSBulletinsPerformance DefinitionsCan Do Name ChartsEssential Actions handbook2012 Amplified Standards2007 Resource Guide

Know your students & Compliance requirements

“How do you identify and plan for instruction for the ELLs within your building?”

Tennessee State Board of Education ESL Policy 3.207 Service Delivery Models:

State requires that SCS submits schedule of beginning level’s DAILY one hour ESL sessions

Activity:LEVELS WITHIN LEVELS

• Look at Sample ACCESS scores• Chart students within each Proficiency Level • Self reflect– How can this help classroom teachers?– How can this help you (planning for instruction)?

• Turn & Talk

ACTIVITY RESOURCES

Alphonso

Alphonso

Alphonso

Alphonso

AlphonsoKyle George

Jesus IrisBeatriceEstellaFranco

CarlosDaniellaHannaLawrence

Reflection:

• What resonated with you?• What is similar to your current practice of

identifying & planning for instruction?• What is different than your current

practice?• What are you going to change as a

result?

WIDA STANDARDS EXIST WITHIN THE CONTENT STANDARDS

“How can we be certain we are addressing WIDA standards? Where do we begin?”

5 WIDA StandardsSocial…Instructional…Academic…

http://www.state.nj.us/education/modelcurriculum/ela/

Vertically Challenged

• Focus: standard progression–Group together by numbers–As a numbered group, discuss your

standard’s progression–Underline changes in progression

Visual of deconstructed standard

VERBS NOUNS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

ASKANSWERDEMONSTRATEREFER

QUESTIONSUNDERSTANDINGTEXTBASISANSWERS

EXPLICITLY

STANDARD: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

http://rt3nc.org/objects/standards/cclitmap/ela.html?strand=language&grade=K-10

Reflection:Application

• What was easiest for you?• What was most difficult?• What else do you need to learn/do

prior to applying to your classroom?

Break…

TAKE 10!

Snowball!

Calderon’s ExC-ELL trainingInstructional Features:• Academic Vocabulary (i.e., Tier 1, 2, 3 words)• Language (i.e., rich discussions, argumentative discourse,

questions, answers)• Reading (i.e., text complexity, reading closely for different

purposes)• Writing from Sources (i.e., texts students are reading;

writing in all subject areas)• Building Knowledge in the Disciplines (i.e., by teaching

reading, vocabulary, and writing in math, science, social studies, and language arts)

A Change in ClimateFrom one day to the next, weather can have a big

effect on your life. When it rains, you have to stay in doors or carry an umbrella. When it’s cold, you have to bundle up.

Over the course of hundreds, thousands, and millions of years, weather trends affect life on Earth in more dramatic ways. Ice ages or long droughts, for example, can wipe out certain types of plants and animals. Although many species manage to survive such extreme long-term climate shifts, their living conditions also change.

ClosingPlease take a moment to share a way in which you can begin to relay to others at your school what you have seen & taken a part in today.

Turn & talk with an elbow partner:• Name 1 action you can take to share the info about the

usefulness of the “CAN DO” charts.• Name 3 or 4 strategies which encourage discourse that

you can apply in your classroom next week. • Discuss how you will begin to decide what vocabulary

words will be most beneficial to teach.

Revisit ObjectivesKNOW:

• The necessity of English Language Development (ELD) and content integration

UNDERSTAND• ACCESS scores & uses for differentiation• WIDA standards exist within the content areas• Strategies which can be used to encourage discourse

DO• Lead an activity so that mainstream teachers may chart the ACCESS scores of

students• Share benefits/ uses of instructional strategies presented today with mainstream

teachers• Teach vocabulary using the ExC-ELL method

Next steps and activities for follow up– Share the “Can Do’s” with mainstream teachers

• Conduct “Levels within Levels” activity (Use part I of this ppt)

• Provide the chart for them (for their class)• Emphasize

– Using appropriate Supports (via LSP)– Moving students to the next level of proficiency

– Participate in ongoing, monthly ESL PLCs• What do ELs need to know?• What does learning look like/ sound like?• What will help students learn?• Explicit Instruction (Calderon & ExCell)

Reflection: One minute paper on post-it

• Jot down your “Take-Aways” • Consider what you need to know and be able to

do to successfully implement what you have learned in this session.–What is still unclear?–What professional development or additional

resources do you need?

District Contacts

• Andrew Duck, ESL Advisor duckAW@scsk12.org 416-5411

• Debra Frantz, ESL Instructional Advisor frantzDL@scsk12.org 416-5503

• James Lancaster, ESL Instructional Advisor lancasterJK@scsk12.org 416-5737

Please visit: http://shelbycountyesl.weebly.com/ for other important ESL information