Policies & Laws
This court case is from 1954 and known for the desegregation of schools.
What is Brown v Board?
In this program I exit early between grades K-3.
What is Transitional?
This is when parents sign up to chaperone a school field trip.
What is volunteering?
The social language acquired by a learner.
What is BICS?
An individual who has not attained fluency in English.
What is an ELL?
This recent policy from 2015 replaced No Child Left Behind.
What is Every Student Succeeds Act?
In this program I exit late between grades K-5.
What is Developmental?
This is when parents and teachers have conferences and meetings to discuss the student.
What is communicating?
The language used by students to perform academic tasks.
What is CALP?
These four basic skills are basic language competency.
What is reading, writing, listening, and speaking?
This act was passed in 1968 to provide federal grants to school districts for programs for children with limited English speaking ability.
What is the Bilingual Education Act?
In this program I am pulled from class with a few others for additional assistance.
What is Pull Out?
This is when students have access to books and tutoring outside of school.
What is learning at home?
Aid provided by a knowledgeable person to help a student with a task they cannot complete alone the social language acquired by a learner.
What is scaffolding?
The four levels of proficiency in ELPs.
What is beginning, intermediate, advanced, and advanced high?
In this case a teacher was convicted of violating a Nebraska law for teaching a student German.
What is Meyer v Nebraska?
In this program I am a student who speaks English at an Arabic school trying to learn Arabic.
What is Bilingual Immersion?
This is when parents set up an area for study at home.
What is parenting?
The domain/space where learners can obtain a higher level of knowledge and skills with the assistance of a more knowledgeable person.
What is the zone of proximal development?
This can be defined as sentence structure/grammar. Words combined to create a sentence.
What is syntax?
The 3 prongs of this are research, resources, and evaluation.
What are the Castaneda Standards?
In this program I am learning to be bilingual. Half the class is English and the other half are ELLs.
What is Dual Immersion(Two Way)?
This is when schools post things around the school and send flyers home of community events.
What is collaborating with the community?
A set of universal information across all languages that facilitates second language learning through a transfer of cognitive and literacy skills from L1 to L2.
What is common underlying proficiency?
All five hypotheses come together to form Krashen's theory of second language acquisition.
What is the acquisition learning hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the input hypothesis, the affective filter hypothesis, and the natural order hypothesis?