Effective Schooling for

English Language LearnersBeginner Level

The School District of Philadelphia

Office of Multilingual

Curriculum and Programs

Session Outcomes

Gain knowledge of roles and responsibilities of schools and staff to accelerate achievement of ELLs

Understand the stages of Second Language Development

Understand the grading guidelines for ELLs and support models

What is your ELL IQ?

True or False

How do you identify an ELL student?

What are the roles of school and district based staff?

At the time of Enrollment Parent completes the EH40, Home Language Survey

The school secretary will schedule enrollment center to set up a time for the student to be evaluated for ESOL eligibility

What is the process?

The Enrollment Center staff will administer the W-APT

W-APT Indicates a Performance Level

Score of 4.5 or lower = ESOL placement

Enrollment Center will enter data in SCN

ELL Transcript Analysis will be done at 440

English Language ProficiencyEnglish Language Proficiency Levels Levels

Entering: 1-1.9

Beginning: 2-2.9

Developing:3-3.9

Expanding: 4-4.9

Bridging: 5-5.9

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How do you evaluate the academic performance of ELLs?

WIDA Can-Do Descriptors

Describe how English language learners process and use language for each language domain (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and level of language proficiency (Entering, Beginning, Developing, Expanding, Bridging) by grade level cluster (K, 1-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)

Grading Guidelines

How do teachers grade ELLs?

Exit Criteria

How do students exit from the ESOL program?

ELL Data Folder

Maintained by school based ESL teachers

Records, including the W-APT results, initial Parent Notification Letter, ACCESS for ELL results, a copy of Exit Notification to Parents, and the Year 1 and Year 2 Post-Exit Monitoring forms must be included in the folder.

ESOL Program Instructional Models

What instructional program models are used for

ELLs?

Interpretation Services

School- Based Bilingual Support

Bilingual Counselor Assistant Support

Office of Translations and Interpretation

Pacific Interpreters

ESL Look Fors

ESL Friendly and Sheltered Classroom “Look Fors”

Questions? Comments, Concerns?