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English Language Learners and Maine's Assessments
Research Study: “New Measures of English Language Proficiency and Their Relationship to Performance on Large-scale Content Assessments”
Summary: Using assessment results for 5th and 8th grade English language learner students in three Northeast and Island Region states, the report finds that the English language domains of reading and writing (as measured by a proficiency assessment) are significant predictors of performance on reading, writing, and mathematics assessments and that the domains of reading and writing (literacy skills) are more closely associated with performance than are the English language domains of speaking and listening (oral skills). - Regional Educational Laboratory, 2009
2009 Webinars
April 2, 2009 - Don Bouchard, "Academic Language and Literacy for ELLs"
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Contextualizing Academic Language with Effective Classroom Teaching Practices excerpt from presentation
May 6, 2009 - Don Bouchard, "Strengthening Academic Content Literacy for ELLs"
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October 8, 2009 - Margot Downs, "Using ELL Student Data to Support Collaboration"
View session | Download the presentation (Click on "read-only")
"Delicate Balance" This article explains that by integrating ELLs into the larger school community, all teachers develop an awareness of the important role of academic language in the content areas.
High Challenge/High Support Instruction
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
| The Federal Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) provides national leadership to help ensure that English language learners and immigrant students attain English proficiency and achieve academically. http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/index.html |
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| The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA) collects, coordinates and conveys a broad range of research and resources in support of an inclusive approach to high quality education for ELLs. http://www.ncela.gwu.edu |
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| The Center for Applied Linguistics
(CAL) provides a comprehensive range of research-based information, tools, and resources related to language and culture. http://www.cal.org |
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| The World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium is the source of ACCESS for ELLs®:
www.wida.us |
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| SchoolsMovingUp/WestEd offers interactive resources to
schools and districts to address the challenge of raising student achievement for English Learners. http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/tpc/8 |
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| Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), is a global association for English language teaching professionals. http://www.tesol.org |
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| The National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) is a professional organization devoted to representing Bilingual Learners and Bilingual Education professionals. http://www.nabe.org/ |
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| Limited English Proficiency - a Federal Interagency Website. http://www.lep.gov |
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| MAINE LINKS |
| The University of Maine's Project Opportunity provides a comprehensive, state-wide program in support of K-12 English Language Learners (ELLs) in Maine's public schools. http://www2.umaine.edu/projectopportunity |
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| Portland Public Schools Multilingual and Multicultural Center. http://www.portlandschools.org/schools/multilingual |
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| Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine http://www.hhrc.org/ |
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| For Maine's service center that supports Maine's Wabanaki tribes and others interested in Indian education and issues, click Wabanaki Studies. http://www.umaine.edu/ld291/ |
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| Multicultural Resources, Services, and Diversity Initiatives of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services .http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/oma/MulticulturalResource/educ.html |
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| LINKS TO GENERAL RESOURCE SITES |
| "ESL Survival Packet" on survival Spanish, and language acquisitions communicating with LEP students, modifying instruction and assessment, and culture considerations in teaching LEP students. (Kentucky Migrant Technology Project ) http://www.migrant.org/esl/survival_packet/index.cfm |
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| everythingESL.net - ESL lesson plan samples, teaching tips, resources, ESL national news. http://www.everythingesl.net |
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| To join an international network of ESL educators, Dave's ESL Cafe http://www.eslcafe.com/ |
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| The Internet TESL Journal - Articles, research papers, lesson plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas and links for teachers of English as a Second Language. http://iteslj.org |
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| Free Curriculum Guide for Teaching Tolerance Focusing on the Uniqueness of the Vietnamese (Grades 7 and up): www.teachingtolerance.org/vietnamese |
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| ESL Magazine. http://www.eslmag.com/ |
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| Click here to access LEP students grades 6-12 to on line courses in English and a basic module course in ESL/Spanish. (Kentucky Migrant Technology Project ) http://www.migrant.org/courses/departments.cfm?category=2 |
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| English as a Second Language - a starting point for ESL learners who want to study English through the Web. http://www.rong-chang.com/main.htm |
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| Successful School Environments for Spanish-Speaking Parents: www.colorincolorado.org |
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| An organization of advocates for language minority students nationwide has formed a National Limited English Proficient Advocacy Task Force. Find out about their work, including a model policy from Portland, ME Public Schools on accessing parents to school matters in their native language. Click on www.leptaskforce.org/LEP%20Home%20Page.htm |
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| To access the nationally developed TESOL standards in use across most states with TESOL students, click ESL Standards http://www.tesol.org/assoc/k12standards/index.html |
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| Teaching English as a foriegn (or second) language in Japan, Korea & Taiwan. Online Certificate Courses, TESOL - TEFL - TESL - TEAL - CELTA. Certification Online. Jobs & Resumes for English Teachers. |
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Instructional Resources
Two-Level Current Affairs Lesson Plans for English Language Learners:
All lessons have a current affairs focus. Each contains a news article, listening (MP3 file), communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises. Classroom handouts are reproducible in Word and PDF. http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ |
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Learn English - a free, on-line, educational resource helping ESL and EFL students to learn English words. The flash site incorporates 40 topics, along with over 1,500 English words and phrases. When you click on a word or phrase you can hear it spoken. The high quality audio was created in a sound studio.
The site is multilingual. The menus, transliterations and translations are in four languages: French, Hebrew Russian and Spanish.
There is an English Only menu, for those who prefer not to use language translations and transliterations. |
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| eGlossary - a web-based glossary for mathematics with several languages - Arabic, Bengal, Chinese, Spanish, Haitian, Hmong, Korean, Russian, Tagalog Urdu, Vietnamese. http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/mlg/mlg.php |
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| itools is a useful intenet tool to help English language learners to look up words, check out computer terms, or to translate text (taken from freetranslation.com). all in one site: http://www.itools.com |
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| "Creative Use of web logs (BLOGS) In the Second Language Classroom" http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Campbell-Weblogs.html |
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| On Line Links to Newspapers Around the World: http://www.thepaperboy.com |
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| Lesson Plans on Domestic and International Events, Conflict Resolution, and Intercultural Understanding (Grades k-12): http:// www.teachablemoment.org |
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| International Volunteers Speaking Bureau (Free Multicultural School Presentations, Grades 4-12): www.unitedplanet.org |
| Language-based sites |
| Successful School Environments for Spanish-Speaking Parents: http://www.colorincolorado.org |
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| Free Curriculum Guide for Teaching Tolerance Focusing on the Uniqueness of the Vietnamese (Grades 7 and up): http://www.teachingtolerance.org/vietnamese |
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| Cultural Dictionary Network offers Somali-to-English and English-to-Somali translations. http://www.hickorytech.net/~cdn/somali.htm |
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| The Ministry of Education from Mexico has released authentic materials on line for Spanish speakers, Grades 1-6 http://www.sep.gob.mx/wb2 |
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| For education guides for Hispanic children as well as a "kids' zone" primarily for bilingual children www.YesICan.gov |
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| Blue Web'N An online library of learning sites on the web, including lesson plan sites that connect technology with content and language teaching materials. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/ |
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| Global SchoolNet engages teachers and students in meaningful project learning exchanges with people around the world to develop literacy and communication skills, foster teamwork and collaboration, encourage workforce preparedness and create multi-cultural understanding. http://www.globalschoolhouse.org/ |
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| International Volunteers Speaking Bureau (Free Multicultural School Presentations, Grades 4-12): http://www.unitedplanet.org |
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| The Diversity Bookmarks Collection - Intercultural Development Research Association educational websites for Bilingual/ESL educators and others interested in issues of educational equity and diversity. http://diversitybookmarks.homestead.com/index.html |
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| To find out about the geographic distribution of 2000 living languages or a listing of all the languages by country across the world. http://www.ethnologue.com |
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On-Line Dictionaries, Serving 6800 known languages in 191 countries http://yourdictionary.com/languages.html
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| Words borrowed from other languages might be fun to share with your students--might perk them up socially about their L1. Examples: Slim is from Afrikaan; satin is from Arabic as boondocks is from Tagalog. Click: http://www.krysstal.com/borrow.html |
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Lesson Plans on Domestic and International Events, Conflict Resolution, and Intercultural Understanding (Grades k-12): www.teachablemoment.org |
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| Links to ESL resources and curriculum. www.schackne.com/Languageteaching.htm. |
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| MIGRANT RESOURCES |
For Foundations that may provide grants to support immigrants and refugees. http://www.gcir.org/ |
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| ESCORT - the Migrant Education National Support Center for Migrant Limited English Proficient Students. Texts and help kits are available for low density populations of students for whom English is a new language, particularly for migrant students: http://www.escort.org/ |
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Migrant courses http://www.migrant.org/esl/index.cfm |
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| "ESL Survival Packet" On survival Spanish, and language acquisitions communicating with LEP students, modifying instruction and assessment, and culture considerations in teaching LEP students. (Kentucky Migrant Technology Project) http://www.migrant.org/esl/survival_packet/index.cfm |
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| National Immigration Forum - Model Programs and State/County Census Data http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/statemap.cfm# |
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ERIC is now available in Spanish and German with More Languages to Follow.
College Park, MD-The ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation and WorldLingo, Inc. announce the formation of a strategic alliance to make the world's largest education database accessible to the non-English speaking world. Effective immediately, teachers, researchers, and members of the public may search the ERIC database at Search ERIC.org in German and Spanish as well as English. Chinese and Japanese translations are expected to become available shortly. Users search by entering keywords in English or their own language and then receive descriptions of relevant journal articles and documents in both languages.To try the new search engine, visit http://www.eric.ed.gov/ select Search ERIC from the home page of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation at http://www.eric.ed.gov/. Select "German" or "Spanish" and insert keywords.The ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation, hosted by the University of Maryland's Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation, is one of 16 subject-area clearinghouses that make up the U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resources Information Center program. More than four million teachers and educators visit ERIC/AE's massive Web
site each year.
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Maine Fire Safety Video for Newcomers
The City of Portland Fire Department has produced a fire safety film. It covers topics such as fire and life safety issues --what the fire service calls EDITH. (Exit Drills In The Home). It describes a plan for families on fire safety. The film is available in the 12 most prominent languages spoken in Maine accessible on DVD as well as VHS. The languages are English, Arabic ,Cantonese, Dinka, French, Khmer, Nuer, Russian, Serbo Croation, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese.
The film depicts firefighters as being friendly people that serve to protect the citizens of their community. Since many immigrants and refugees were politically oppressed in their home land, it is important that we make them feel that they are safe in our communities and that the government of their community protects them.
The price for the DVD is $50 dollars for all 12 languages plus shipping and handling, The VHS format is $20 a language plus shipping and handling. This film is one of a kind, no other fire department or national organization has produced a safety video in as many languages.
If interested, contact John Beatty, Fire and Life Safety Educator III, Portland Fire Department, 380 Congress Street.
Portland, Maine 04101, 207-874-8409.
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