Esl Education Administration Presentation

What Are Academic Standards?

The New York State Learning Standards:

Number of Standards for Each Each content area has a different number of

standards.

Health, physical Education

3 Standards

Languages Other Than English

2 Standards

English language Arts

4 Standards

Social Studies

5 Standards

Mathematics, Science, and Technology

7 Standards

Career Development and Operational Studies

3 Standards

The Arts

4 Standards

The New York State Learning Standards There are 3 levels.     ELEMENTARY

    INTERMEDIATE

    COMMENCEME NT

ELEMENTARY

INTERMEDIATE

COMMENCEMENT

Primary School Middle School

High School

Grades K-5

Grades 9-12

Grades 6-8

ESL Standards • Goal 1: To use English to communicate in social settings. • Standard 1: Students will use English to participate in social interactions. • Standard 2: Students will interact in, through, and with spoken and written English for personal expression and enjoyment. • Standard 3: Students will use learning strategies to extend their communicative competence.

ESL Standards • Goal 2: To use English to achieve academically in all content areas. • Standard 1: Students will use English to interact in the classroom. • Standard 2: Students will use English to obtain, process, construct, and provide subject matter information in spoken and written form. • Standard 3: Students will use appropriate learning strategies to construct and apply academic knowledge.

ESL Standards • Goal 3: To use English in socially and culturally appropriate ways. • Standard 1: Students will use appropriate language variety, register, and genre according to audience, purpose, and setting. • Standard 2: Students will use nonverbal communication appropriate to audience, purpose, and setting. • Standard 3: Students will use appropriate learning strategies to extend their sociolinguistic and socio-cultural competence

Levels of Language Development

Considerations for assigning students to levels using percentile scores on an English Language measure. Placement decisions should consider student age, maturity, native language proficiency, and grade level. See: Snyder’s Placement Package.

1% 13% 20% 30% Beginning

Intermediate

Advanced

16%

Transitional

23%

33%

40%