“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 565-6044ereveiz@amityvilleufsd.org

Dr. Annette Shideler

Consultant – A-Net Consulting Services, Ltd516 702-3284a-netconsulting@optonline.net