True or False?
ESOL is part of the special education program under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
What is false? Having a native or home language other than English is a difference, not a disability.
100
What assessment is given annually in Kansas to measure English learners' academic language development and proficiency?
What is the KELPA? (KS English Language Proficiency Assessment)
100
What is the purpose of the KELPA assessment?
What is give information about English learners' current level of English language development in all four proficiency areas and identify when students may be ready to exit the ESOL program.
100
Which is the best strategy for increasing English learners' academic speaking skills?
A) partner or group work B) bilingual dictionaries
C) read questions aloud to the students
D) graphic organizers
What is partner or group work?
200
True or False?
Not all ESOL students are migrant, and not all migrant students are in ESOL.
What is true?
200
According to KELPA, what are the levels of academic language?
A) easy, medium, and hard
B) beginner, intermediate, advanced, fluent
C) beginning, general, specific, and technical
What is beginner, intermediate, advanced, fluent?
200
What is the best way to elicit more elaborate responses from students during questioning by the teacher?
A) punish students for answers that are too short or too general
B) increase wait time before responding to the student
C) ask the same question every day
D) translate the question into the student's native language
What is increase wait time before responding to student?
300
True or False?
English learners who learned to read in English only have better literacy skills than those who learned to read in their native language before learning to read in English.
What is false? Research shows that students who learn to read in their native language acquire grade level literacy in English faster than English learners without native language literacy.
300
What are the four domains (parts) of the KELPA?
What are listening, speaking, reading and writing?
300
What is the best way to group English learners?
A) only with other English learners of the same proficiency level
B) with native English speakers only
C) using flexible grouping strategies
D) with students with disabilities
What is using flexible grouping strategies?
400
True or False?
ESOL students are held accountable for meeting the same content standards as native speakers of English.
What is true? English learners must be taught the same standards without them being "watered down." The standards must be made accessible through effective accommodations, scaffolding, and strategies.
400
What is the kind of language does KELPA address?
A) Language of Language Arts
B) Social and Instructional Language
C) Language of Math
D) Language of Science
What is Language of Language Arts?
400
What is the minimum KELPA score needed to exit the ESOL program?
What is all 4s (fluent) in all 4 proficiency areas for 2 consecutive years?
400
Which of these is the classroom teacher's most important role in teaching English learners?
A) correcting errors when students speak or write B) teaching American culture C) providing students with opportunities to listen to, speak, read, and write academic language of the content areas D) helping students memorize lists of vocabulary words
What is providing students opportunities to listen to, speak, read, and write academic language of the content areas?
500
True or False? Most ESOL students in America were born in Mexico.
What is false? The majority of ESOL students at our school and in America were born in the United States.
500
True or False?
Most ESOL students in America were born in Mexico.
What is false? The majority of ESOL students at our school and in America were born in the United States.