ACRONYMS
FLORIDA CONSENT DECREE
CULTURE
ASSESSMENT
ESOL POST-TEST
100
ELL
What is English Language Learner?
100
A plan for Florida to bring its Education System into compliance for English Language Learners.
What is The Florida Consent Decree?
100
Information about different aspects of countries that will give you an insight into many cultures around the world.
What is a Culturegram?
100
An assessment that is meaningful to the student and demonstrates his/her level of comprehension.
What is Authentic Assessment?
100
An exciting time in your life and you are happy in your new environment.
What is "The Honeymoon Theory"?
200
LEP
What is Limited English Proficiency?
200
A law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or nationality.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
200
Making gestures, pointing, or using your body to communicate with other people.
What is Non-Verbal Communication?
200
A systematic, interative process of planning, collecting, analyzing, reporting, and using student data from a variety of sources over time.
What is Assessment?
200
Infusing yourself into a new culture and adding spice to the group.
What is the Salad Bowl?
300
NCLB
What is NO Child Left Behind?
300
A group of Chinese students in San Francisco sued the school district for violation of their Civil Rights.
What is Lau vs. Nichols?
300
A way of life that uses customs, values, and traditions to interact in our World today.
What is Culture?
300
Planning, collecting, analyzing, and reporting data for a whole group.
What is Classroom Assessment?
300
Use Cooperative learning activities. Use role playing. Use a variety of media. Provide hands-on experiences.
What are ESOL Strategies?
400
FCAT
What is Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test?
400
A Supreme Court decision that stated that separate facilities are inherently unequal.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
400
A part of your life that you can not see and need to develop to successful bond with your English Language Learners.
What is Deep Culture?
400
Feedback on student work from other students from the same class or grade level.
What is Peer Assessment?
400
Assimilating into a culture and becoming part of "Mainstream Society".
What is a Melting Pot?
500
ESOL
What is English for Speakers of Other Languages?
500
A Supreme Court decision that stated that all students have the right to attend public schools.
What is Phyler vs. Doe?
500
A Muslim student in your class refuses to take a sheet of paper from a classmate.
What is he is not allowed to socialize or make eye contact with females?
500
A collection of original student work generated from real-life situations and experiences.
What is Performance Assessment?
500
Gestures, Space, Proxemics, and Time......
What are some the areas of communication patterns that differ according to culture?