A student who does not demonstrate proficiency in English on a valid and reliable ELP assessment of all four language domains.
What is ELL?
100
BICS for short
What are Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills?
100
Components needed to be present in an effective CLO.
What is function, form, supports?
100
WIDA for short.
What is World-Class Instructional Design Assessment?
100
Number of years a student should be monitored once he exits the ELA program.
What is 2?
200
A teacher that demonstrates proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and listening Spanish on a valid and reliable assessment of Spanish Language.
What is ELA-S?
200
The specific language needed to understand and contribute to classroom talk and to read and write texts for school.
What is Academic Language?
200
Grammatical conventions and structures.
What is form?
200
Large-scale test of English language proficiency based on the WIDA English Language Proficiency.
What is ACCESS?
200
Team that makes recommendations to the ELA Dept. regarding program entry, exit, and redesignation of students.
What is ISA?
300
Standards that advance academic language development and academic achievement for linguistically diverse students through assessments, research, and professional development for educators.
What is WIDA?
300
A diagram showing the relationships among concepts. They are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge.
What is a Concept Map?
300
Real-life objects, charts, graphic organizers, pictures and photographs.
What are visual supports?
300
Domain in which students show their ability to interpret and evaluate symbols and text with understanding and fluency.
What is reading?
300
Minimum number of Spanish students (level intermediate or below) needed at a secondary school to be considered a TNLI program.
What is 100?
400
The program in which services, including native language instruction in Spanish, supported English Content Instruction, and ELD are provided to ELLs.
What is TNLI?
400
Tailoring content, process, products, or the learning environment to meet individual needs.
What are the levels of WIDA or English Language Acquisition?
400
The purpose of this committee is to provide information, listen to concerns, and increase communication between ELL parents, the school and the district regarding
What is PAC?
500
A questionnaire used by trained staff at registration with parents and students new to the district to determine whether the student’s primary or home language is a language other than English.
What is HLQ?
500
The provision of sufficient support to promote learning when concepts and skills are being first introduced to students.
What is Scaffolding?
500
Principal MCREL consultant (and co-author of Classroom Instruction that Works for English Language Learners) who helped develop CLO framework
Who is Jane Hill?
500
They build upon the Performance Definitions by describing what students can do at each proficiency level by domain.
What are CAN DO Descriptors?
500
Plaintiffs in lawsuit against DPS that led to the Modified Consent Decree