For students who have an identified language other than English on HLS and whose LEP status cannot be determined due to possible disability or for students identified as Special Ed in home country, and handicapping condition prevents language assessment.
What is LEP considerations for Entrance Flowchart?
100
Test given to students who indicate on the Home Language Survey a language other than English.
What is IDEA Proficiency Test (IPT)?
100
Committe composed of a campus administrator, a professional bilingual educator, a professional transitional language educator and a parent of a current limited English proficiency student.
What is Language Proficiency Assessment Committee (LPAC)?
100
Commitee that admits, reviews and dismisses students from special education services.
What is Admission, Review and Dismissal Committee (ARD)?
100
Students are grouped according to reading level and/or instructional needs.
What is Guided Reading?
200
Document that must be taken to all staffings and ARDs of a Limited English Proficiency student.
What is ELL Special Education Placement Information (appendix aa)?
200
State assessment that measures student growth in the areas of Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing each spring.
What is Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System?
200
Assesses students, meets to review assessment information, determines the appropriate program placement, and reviews progress and performance of LEP students.
What is the purpose of the LPAC framework?
200
Acceleration of English Language Proficiency
Individual Student Plan
What is AYP?
200
Interactive online curriculum that provides differentiated reading instruction based on student need.
What is Istation?
300
Document to be considered only if it will benefit the child to be out of a bilingual/ESL program due to a disability other than language.
What is Special Education Individual Considerations for Exit?
300
State Assessment that measures a child's performance, as well as academic growth.
What is State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR)?
300
Time of the year when the LPAC members review every child......
* identified in PEIMS as LEP
* has parental waiver
* has met criteria for bilingual/ESL program exit
* is no longer classified as LEP in PEIMS or
* is in his or her first or second year of monitoring.
What is Annual Review?
300
English Language Learner
What is ELL?
300
Language objectives aligned to cross-curricular student expectations.
What is English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)?
400
Document to be filled out when considering changes for student but must be completed through ARD meeting or change of IEP prior to state assessment and after state assessment to determine if the student has met the modified exit criteria.
What is Key ARD Committee and Key LPAC Meeting Document?
400
Reading Level, anecdotal notes, portafolios, etc.. are part of the fourth component required by the district for a student to exit.
What is subjective teacher evaluation?
400
Students will perform at or above grade level in all academic areas of both languages, develop high levels of oral and written proficiency in both English and Spanish, and demonstrate positive cross-cultural attitudes and behaviors and high-levels of self-esteem.
What is the goal of bilingual education?
400
English to Speakers of Other Languages
What is ESOL?
400
Comprehensive reading assessments that measure student's reading levels and target instructional needs.
What is Rigby, DRA, Fountas & Pinnell, Reading A-Z, etc...?
500
Is the education of students with special needs in a way that addresses the students' individual differences and needs.
What is Special Education?
500
Student meets state and district requirements at the end of the school year. Student may be classified as English proficient and be able to participate equally in a general education, all-English instructional program.
What is Exit Criteria?
500
Program required by law for all English language learners for whom a district is not required to offer a bilingual education program.
What is English as a Second Language (ESL)program?
500
Istation's Indicators of Progress
What is ISIP?
500
A multi-tiered approach to help struggling learners where progress is closely monitored at each stage of intervention to determine the need for further research-based instruction and/or intervention.