Adult ESOL Program Updates

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Adult ESOL Program Updates

• Topics for Discussion

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Adult ESOL Program Updates

• Personnel
• Who teaches which level (s)?
• Is staff development needed?
• New class?
• New teacher?
• How many students to a class?
• Curriculum lesson plans, instruction
• No lesson plans for new Foundations
• Distinguish difference in instruction

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Adult ESOL Program Updates

• Personnel
• Who teaches which level (s)?
• Is staff development needed?
• New class?
• New teacher?
• How many students to a class?
• Curriculum lesson plans, instruction
• No lesson plans for new Foundations
• Distinguish difference in instruction

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Adult ESOL Program Updates

• Testing Materials
• Appropriate test form for each level
• Enough testing materials?
• No need for CASAS test Level D
• ECS for ELCATE?
• Testing
• Multi-level class/division of tests
• Scheduling

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Adult ESOL Program Updates

• Materials Allocations
• Right materials for class level
• Division of textbooks and texts series
• Data Reporting
• Work with your local data personnel to be certain
  that all LCPs are recorded accurately.

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Adult ESOL Program Updates

• Marketing changes necessary
• Advertising communication with the public
• Brochures
• Instructors manuals
• Handbooks
• Flyers

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Review

• What are the changes to the Adult ESOL program?
• What scale score is now required for Academic
  Adult ESOL?
• What are the changes to Literacy for Adult
  Learners Adult ESOL course?
• What is the minimum score to qualify a student to
  enroll in ELCATE?

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• A LCP can only be earned by the results of gains
  from an administered test

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Think

• When was the last test administered? Prior or
  Now?
• Keep a matrix of both of the scale scores. Prior
  and Now.
• Must still look at the lower score.
• When was the posttest administered? Prior or Now?
• Then one can calculate whether a LCP has been
  earned.

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What is Your Answer?

• Juan
• 3/3/06 pretest R 185 L 183
• Placement? Foundations
• 6/6/06 now R 185 L 183
• Placement? Low Beginning
• LCP earned? NO
• 7/7/06 posttest R 193 L 191
• Placement? High Beginning
• LCP earned? Yes LCP B

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What is Your Answer?

• Natalia
• 3/3/06 pretest R 185 L 183
• Placement? Foundations
• 5/12/06 posttest R 193 L 205
• Placement? Low Beginning
• LCP earned? Yes LCP A
• Now Placement? High Beginning
• 7/7/06 posttest R 204 L 205
• Placement? Low Intermediate
• LCP earned? Yes LCP C

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What is Your Answer?

• Jose
• 3/3/06 pretest R 165 L 0
• Placement? Foundations
• 6/6/06 posttest R 185 L 181
• Placement? Low Beginning
• LCP earned? Yes LCP A
• 7/7/06 posttest R 204 L 205
• Placement? Low Intermediate
• LCP earned? Yes LCP B C

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What is Your Answer?

• Natasha
• 4/28/06 pretest R 213 L 211
• Placement? Low Intermediate
• 6/6/06 now R 213 L 211
• Placement? High Intermediate
• LCP earned? NO
• 7/7/06 posttest R 219 L 218
• Placement? High Intermediate
• LCP earned? No

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What is Your Answer?

• Fiona
• New student beginning in the fall
• 8/28/06 pretest R 239 L 224
• Placement? Academic Skills
• Why?
• When does she earn a LCP?
• How does she exit?
• Progress Report

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What is Your Answer?

• Isabella
• New student beginning in the fall
• 8/28/06 Oral Screening 3
• Whats given next?
• 5 Practice Questions
• Completes with difficulty Whats next?
• Native Literacy Language Screening
• Rubric Score is 23 Placement? Lit. C
• What is needed to exit? Progress Report

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What is Your Answer?

• Mrs. Smith
• Teaches the advanced class for FY 06
• Scale Scores of 236-245
• Fall term begins FY 07
• Students come back to register.
• Students are told their scores are too high and
  cannot register.
• What needs to happen?

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Presenter
Claire Valier Valierc_at_palmbeach.k12.fl.us