EPLT
Linguistic Accommodations
TTESS
Classroom Environment
100

This is the acronym for Extended Professional Learning Time.

What is EPLT?

100

This is where linguistic accommodations are assigned and signed. 

What is ESPED?

100

This is the acronym for Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System.

What is TTESS?

100

These are the consistent daily habits students should follow each class period. 

What are routines?

200

This is 10 minutes after each class period begins.

What is the time frame in which each EPLT begins?

200

This is an accommodation that is vital to introducing and understanding a lesson.

What is Preteach Vocabulary?

200

This is the highest rating in any TTESS domain.

What is distinguished?

200

This is a task students should complete, independently, in approximately 5 minutes, upon entering the classroom.

What is the Do Now?

300

These are the times at which you can attend EPLT.

What is my conference period or after school?

300

The use of drawings, pictorial models, visuals, and graphic organizers to make language and content comprehensible. 

What is an Anchor Chart?

300

This is the planning focus dimension of TTESS.

What is Domain 1?

300
This is an evolving display, of a collection of terminology, with which students should interact through each unit of learning objectives.

What is a word wall?

400

This is the day of the week on which EPLT is held.

What is every Tuesday?

400

Semesters when accommodations must be assigned for EB students.

What are fall and spring Linguistic Accommodations?

400

This is the dimension of TTESS that includes the following focus: achieving expectations, content knowledge, communication, monitor and adjust.

What is Domain 2: Instruction?

400

These are a sequence of daily actions students should perform upon entering the classroom and ending with completing the exit ticket.

What are procedures? 

500

This is the most recent EPLT session, the core intervention program, used during 4th-period intervention block.

What is APEX learning?

500

The following image is an example of this type of linguistic accommodation.


What are pictorial representations?

500

This is the third dimension focus for TTESS.

What is learning environment?

500

This is the delineated, schedule of minutes for which teachers should account throughout the lesson cycle.

What is the agenda?