ENL Acronyms
The acronym CALP stands for ___________.
What is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency?
A student recently arrived and attending a U.S. school and new to English is often referred to as ________.
What is a Newcomer?
This is a plan developed to ensure that a student with an identified disability receives specialized instruction and related services.
What is an Individualized Educational Plan (IEP)?
A support that is provided to help a student fully access the general education curriculum and is usually provided during classroom instruction/assessments and state assessments.
What are Accommodations?
Despite arriving to the United States and learning English as a second language, he overcame his language deficits to become an accomplished actor. He is well known for his words, "I'll be back!"
Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Social or playground language that is learned first may be referred to as _______.
What is BICS - Basic Interpersonal Communciations Skills?
The levels ELL students are on are called ________.
What are proficiency levels?
This assessment identifies what is maintaining or causing a challenging behavior and the subsequent written improvement plan specifies the actions to take to improve or replace the behavior.
What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment and Behavioral Intervention Plan (FBA/BIP)?
One teacher instructs one large group of students and the other teacher works with a small group of no more than 8 students.
What is the Alternative Teaching ICT Model?
Developing the theory of relativity isn’t something a person with difficulty concentrating would normally do, but he was notoriously distracted. Along with ADHD, some scholars believe he suffered from Asperger’s Syndrome.
Who is Albert Einstein?
An assessment designed to annually assess the English language proficiency of all ELLs is called __________.
What is NYSESLAT - New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test?
A method teaching language or vocabulary by using physical movement to react to verbal input.
What is Total Physical Response - TPR?
Under the Civil Rights Rehabilitation Act of 1973, if a student has a disability that significantly impacts a major life function, then that student may receive accommodations, modifications and related services.
What is Section 504 Plan
Tracking the academic progress of the student each quarter using teacher created materials, teacher observations/notes and assessments to determine whether that student is not meeting, approaching or meeting the annual goals on his/her/their IEP
What is IEP Goals Progress Monitoring?
Famous Italian Renaissance painter, most popularly known for his painting, Mona Lisa. He is also known for his dyslexia because he wrote his notes backwards, from right to left, in a mirror image.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
All families must fill out one of these documents when registering their child in school to let us know if the child has a language other than English spoken at home.
What is HLIS - Home Language Identification Survey?
What is prior knowledge?
Integrate Co-teaching classroom settings and support related services such as counseling, speech and language therapy, occupational/physical therapy, accommodations and testing accommodations.
What are Mandated Services in the IEP?
Changes to course content, required work or instructional level
What are Modifications?
This famous electric light inventor was born with a hearing disability and could not manage to develop reading skills until the age of twelve which also impacted his writing abilities.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The placement assessment students take when identified as possible ELLs is called __________.
What is NYSITELL - New York Identification Test for English Language Learners?
The knowledge of how sounds work within a language is foundational, especially when it comes to learning English as a second language.
What is phonemic awareness?
This support system addresses academic as well as social and emotional areas (non-academic), including behavior and other topics such as attendance. It also incorporates school culture, teacher professional development, and family and community engagement.
What is the Multi-Tiered System of Support Model (MTSS)?
This law mandates makes available a free appropriate public education to every eligible student with disabilities throughout the United States and ensures a specialized program/instruction and related services to meet that student's individual educational needs.
What is The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
Suffering from dyslexia, he is an inspiration to many, as he did not let adversity slow him down on his passion for success in the cartoon and animated film industry.
Who is Walt Disney?