“SURVIVING IN AMITYVILLE”
ELL’s + I-PaDS = SUCCESS
PERCENTAGE OF ESL STUDENTS DISTRICT-WIDE
District-Wide 2,986 Students = approx 14% ESL(not including ungraded & Private)
Bilingual Special Education = 14%
# ESL/BILINGUAL STUDENTS
NE 68
NW 90
PA 132
MS 65
HS 51
TOTAL 406
Special Education
57
Proficiency Percentages Per Building on NYSESLAT 2011
30%
16.6%
9.8%
District-Wide 406 ELL Students = 15.27% Reached Proficiency
Proficiency Rates of ELL’sAmityville SD 2011
Background – SY 2009/10
Amityville ELL students had not met AYP for 3 years
ELL students were not succeeding academically in ELA or Math
ELL students were not meeting AMAO advancement percentages
Consultant Recommendation
Curriculum writing for ESL programProject approach via SIOP methodology
○ Christmas Carol○ Swiss Family Robinson
Infuse with technology from three sources – SmartBoards, iPods, iPads
Batch scheduling ELL students Coordinate bilingual resourcesFocus ELL mainstream teacher training
Development of Project Format
Essential Question Background Knowledge
Vocabulary Syntax
BeginnerListening/speaking Reading/writing
Materials/resources/web sites
Concepts/Relationships Skills/procedures -------------------
IntermediateListening/speaking Reading/writing -------------------
Concepts/relationships Skills/procedures -------------------
AdvancedListening/speaking Reading/writing ------------------
Concepts/relationships Skills/procedures -------------------
Curriculum Priorities
Include all the key syntax concepts from Visions in a more naturally occurring environment via essential question
Item analysis of NYSESLAT and ELA exams
ESL by deletion
Swiss Family Robinson
iPod G-Flash questions Animal flash cards Video from YouTube
iPad Toontastic Beginner ESL eBook
Internet PortaPortal.com Survival Guide General resources
Basic Process Swiss Family is a book about survival –
what would be important for you to communicate to other new ELL students to help them survive Amityville?
Students identified topics Worked in groups or alone based on their
choices Differentiated activities – challenging &
interactive; full of sight, sound, movement Every student had to contribute
What makes this project noteworthy? Emotional honesty of students –
we asked them to invest in creating a document to help other immigrant students – they decided what was important to survival…
We learned that these students deal maturely with topics far beyond their years
We gave them a voice and told them we would listen; they trusted us to listen with integrity
Medium allowed all students at all levels to contribute
Management Issues Coordinate the synching,
charging, locking Volume purchase of apps through
BOCES Consistent initial set-up of iPads District iTunes account Policy on student names in
document Student file standardization
Mechanics Mechanics of creating an
eBook Mechanics of acquiring
an ISBN# Mechanics of submitting
to iTunes/iBookStore
Next Steps Roll-out to additional
buildings/grades “Food as Communion of Culture”
as a fund raiser Curriculum written to reflect
standardized test item analysis which incorporates technology
Presenters Elizabeth Reveiz
Director of ESL/BE/WL-Amityville UFSD631 [email protected]
Dr. Annette Shideler
Consultant – A-Net Consulting Services, Ltd516 [email protected]
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