This is a landmark where Chinese speaking community members in San Francisco challenged the school board for equal access to education and won. Now, every school district in the country must have a "Lao plan," a strategy to provide equal educational access to ELLS
Schools receive Title III funding to assist in this. As a result, ELL students are audited to test for proficiency and progress. The general expectation is that students will advance one proficiency level per academic year (for example Early Intermediate----Intermediate). If stundents don't pass the audit, schools will lose funding.
Express Placement----If the student tests high in English, s/he might get monitored.
Susana Dutos's Systematic English Language Development curriculum is the ELD curriculum that is most commonly accepted nationwide. The scope and sequence of this curriculum tends to dominate these audits and therefore, schools that utilize other curriculums sometimes fail to measure up.
Another commonly used ELD program is Rigby's "Into English" program. However, it is less popular than Dutros's.
Students are assessed on:
Oral Language Development
Purposes of language use (functions)
Grammatical structures
Structured oral and written language proficiency
This is aligned with language proficiency standards.
Mortar words= connecting words (of, for but, and, etc.) These are often the most difficult words and structures for ELLs to master.
Different forms of assessment: Woodcock, SOLOM, ELPA
*Assignment: find out which assessment your site uses.
Susanna Dutro's home page has some info on scope and sequence. However, she carefully guards a lot of her information!
The ELPA test is available online through a website. Students use a computer and headphones to complete the test.
For the case study next week: bring in SOLOM and all artifacts (writing samples, etc.9
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