MLL Demographics
What percentage of U.S. students are multilingual learners?
What is 10.2%?
List 2 problems in our country limiting multilingual learner success.
What are:
-disproportionate special education referral rates
-ESL teacher shortages
-low graduation rates
Define Multilingual Learner.
What is a student who speaks another language at home who takes an English linguistic assessment and is determined as needing additional support in English at school?
Name the module at PCG to support multilingual learners.
What is ELL module?
How many languages are there worldwide?
Over 7,000
Which state has the largest population of multilingual learners?
What is California?
Finish this sentence: “Multilingual learner education is a protected ____ right.”
What is civil?
Name 2 other acronyms or initialisms used to describe the population of multilingual learners (e.g. MLL)
What are:
-ELL
-ESL
-ENL
-EB
-EL
-LAT
List three products or services PCG currently has to support multilingual learners.
What are ELL module, curriculum writing, and UI?
Name how many sovereign and non-sovereign states list English as their official language.
What is 86?
List three of the top 5 most commonly spoken language in the U.S. by our multilingual learners.
What are: Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, French/Haitian Creole, and Arabic
Name the federal consequence of districts not meeting the needs of multilingual learners.
What is get sued by the Department of Justice?
List 3 benefits of bilingualism/multilingualism.
What are: academic advantage, higher pay, more friends, more job opportunities, cognitive benefits like multitasking and increased attention span, health benefits (delayed onset of dementia/Alzheimer's, faster stroke recovery, lower stress), open-mindedness, social adeptness, being in the majority (more than half the world is bilingual)
List 3 new services or products that PCG could leverage to support multilingual learners.
What are:
-teacher pipeline
-professional development
-district & state auditing
-parent portal
-SEI/RETELL support
-new programming: SLIFE, newcomer, bilingual programs
Describe is the difference between multilingual and multilingual learner.
Multilingual means you speak more than one language.
Multilingual learner means you are a student who speaks another language at home and has been identified as needing English support at school.
What percentage of K-12 multilingual learners were born in the United States?
What is 77%?
Name the difference between multilingual learners and special education students.
How many letters is the longest word in the English language? Extra 100 points if you can pronounce it and 100 points to define it.
What is 42 letters?
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Name 3 states that use the EDPlan ELL module at PCG.
What are Indiana, Texas, and Virginia?
Name today's objectives.
What are:
1. Define multilingual learner.
2. Describe our nation's issues in supporting multilingual learners.
3. List ways in which PCG can support outcomes for multilingual learners.
How many states reported multilingual learner teacher shortages?
What is 35?
Name the initiative in MA after the DOJ cited the state as failing to serve its multilingual learners.
What is the RETELL initiative?
Say hello in 5 different languages. Get 100 extra points for each additional language.
hola
ciao
bonjour
alo
aloha
Name all of the multilingual staff on our team.
I wish I knew!
Name the United States' official language.
What is does not exist?