Alternative Education DepartmentEnglish Learner Professional Development (ELPD)

September 15, 2010

Bill Conrad, Ed.D.bill_conrad@sccoe.org

Yee Wan, Ed.D.yee_wan@sccoe.org

Santa Clara County Office of Education

Outcomes

1. Review strategies introduced at the August 11 meeting and discuss their implementation

2. Understand the structure of the ELD standards-based report card

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Agenda

1. Warm-up: I Am Poem

2. Share EL Strategy Implementation

3. What’s New for the English Learners Program?

4. Review CELDT Proficiency Levels

5. Introduce the ELD Standards-based Report Card

6. Model How to Complete the ELD Standards-based Report Card

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Warm-Up: I Am Poem

1. Select one team member to read the “I Am” poem

2. Please share one message/idea from this poem that resonates with you

3. How does the use of the “I am” poem or a similar activity support our teaching and student learning?

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Review Strategies

1. Anticipation Guide

2. Pre-assessment

3. Self-rating (Traffic Light)

4. Collaborative groups

5. Graphic organizer

6. Note-taking

7. Language frames

8. Pair share

9. Connection to real-life (classroom) application

Share EL Strategy Implementation

1. Write down one EL strategy that you have implemented since the beginning of the 2010-11 school year

2. In your table teams, share your strategy with colleagues

3. Select a spokesperson

4. Spokesperson reports your group’s discussion to the entire group

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Share EL Strategy Implementation

Name of the Strategy Describe how it was used

Successes Challenges

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What’s New in the EL Program?

1. Master Plan for Services to English Learners was adopted in April 2010

2. ELD Programs: Edge for grades 9-12

Inside for grades 6-8 (pilot)

3. Accountability system for measuring the effectiveness of the EL program

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What’s New in the EL Program?Content Area

Core Assessments Purposes

ELD National Geographic/Hampton Brown Edge andInside (Pilot)

Edge/Inside Placement Test

English Language Gains Test

Reading Gains Test

ELD Standards-based Report Card

Identifies students for appropriate instructional levelMeasures Lexile Level

Measures gains in language proficiency over time in vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension and writing composition

Measures gains in reading Lexile level

Collects formative assessment (class work) information provided by ELD teachers

Rank Overall CELDT Performance Level Descriptors

1. Read the five CELDT proficiency level descriptors

2. Rank the CELDT levels Beginning

Early Intermediate

Intermediate

Early Advanced

Advanced

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ELD Standards-based Report Card

1. Review the ELD Standards-based Report Card

2. Select the intermediate language proficiency levels

3. Highlight the performance indicators that are relevant to your subject area

4. Complete the 3-2-1 Go graphic organizer on page 16

5. Share your responses on the 3-2-1 Go graphic organizer with an elbow partner

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Strategies (9-15-10)

1. Connection to prior learning/personal experience - I Am poem

2. Cooperative Groups (CELDT level ranking)

3. Ranking (CELDT level ranking)

4. Graphic Organizers (Strategy Implementation, 3-2-1 Go)

5. Elbow partner (3-2-1 Go)

6. Modeling (ELD Report Card by Dorothy Desfosses)

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Making Real Life Connections

1. Reflect on the strategies that you experienced in today’s session

2. Select one strategy

3. Share at your table group how you can use/adapt the strategy in your classroom

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October 20, 2010 EL Meeting

1. Bring student work that illustrates your chosen strategy

2. Mark the standard(s) that indicate mastery on the ELD Report Card

3. Be prepared to share your strategy and the marked standards on the ELD Report Card

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EL Resources

Alternative Education Department

http://www.sccoe.org/depts/ell/aed/login.asp

Password: aed

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Thank you for your contributions and commitment

to English learners!

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Thank You