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Model Standards English as a Second Language OACE Integrated Programs Planning Project Summer 2009.
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Transcript of Model Standards English as a Second Language OACE Integrated Programs Planning Project Summer 2009.
Objectives
• Identify the document(s) that guide curriculum, instruction and assessment in the OACE ESL Program
• Identify how Standards are organized
• Identify how our Program has selected “key” or “essential” standards
• Practice using the ESL Standards
ESL Model Program Standards
• What was Adult Education ESL like before MS (1992)?
• How were ESL courses described?
What are the Model Standards?
• Identify core knowledge and skills (content standards)
• Identify performance indicators (performance standards)
How are they organized?
• Content Standards– 4 language skills: Listening, Speaking,
Reading, Writing– 7 proficiency levels
• Performance Standards– Sample assessment tasks
• 2 additional core content areas
• Section on integrating SCANS and EFF
What are Performance Standards?
Descriptive paragraph of how learner functions upon exit
Sample assessment tasks Examples of technology use how well learners need to perform to show
mastery
How do ESL teachers use the standards?
• What level?
• Should I promote him?
• consistent attender. • active participant. • confuses b and p, g and
a, v and y.• may not respond
appropriately when asked familiar questions.
• communicates haltingly. • wants to stay with
classmates and be promoted.
How do ESL teachers use the standards?
• Developing lessons
• Developing assessments
• Placement
• Promotion
• Program Exit
What do ESL Standards mean to students & teachers?
• For students:– What I must know, understand and be able to
do– What I need to do to demonstrate mastery– When I demonstrate mastery, where I will go
How do the standards contribute to improved student learning?
• What students need to know
• Helps teachers specifically target what ss need to learn
• Helps teachers gauge learner preparedness for the next level, or for exit
In summary…
• Identify the document (s)
• Identify how Standards are organized
• Identify how our ESL Program has selected “key” or “essential” standards
• Practice using the ESL Standards
Quiz
• How many …– proficiency levels are described in the MS?– levels are offered by OACE ESL Program– skill areas? Name them…– additional core content areas are described?
Name them….– proficiency levels are described in the
National Reporting System?