Programs and Models
Starts With An S!
Prep For a Good Teacher
100

This refers to any program that provides literacy and content instruction to all students through two languages and that promotes bilingualism and biliteracy 

Dual Language Education

100

Sink or swim.

Submersion


100

Primarily focuses on teaching the English language over content.

English as a Second Language (ESL)

200

This program aims to transition ELLs to an English-medium classroom as quickly as possible.

Transitional Bilingual Education

200

Primary goal of this is to teach area specific content in a manner that makes it comprehensible to ELLs. 

Sheltered instruction

200

Strategies for providing support for ELL's  in their home languages.

Bilingual Strategies

300

Programs that aim to help develop both English and their home language so that they become both bilingual and biliterate.

Developmental Bilingual Education

300

The model identifies eight key components of effective sheltered instruction which include: preparation, building background, comprehensible input, strategies, etc.

Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)

300

Perspective that views bilingualism as the norm and treats the languages of bilinguals as co-existing.

Heteroglossic Perspective

400

Specialized academic environment that serve newly arrived immigrant English Language Learners for a limited period of time.

Newcomer Program


400

Another term for "sheltered instruction" which is used in states like California and others.

Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English

400

Education that uses practices of multilingual learners and teachers to it's advantage.

Translanguaging Pedagogy

500

Dual language is a type of this immersion program for BOTH English speakers and ELLs.

Two-Way Immersion

500

Perspective that views monolingualism as the norm and treats the languages of bilinguals as two separate distinct systems.

Monoglossic Perspective