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The ELPS—English Language Proficiency Standards
The English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) were approved by the State Board of Education on November 16, 2007, and will replace the ESL TEKS beginning in the 2008-2009 school year, and may be found online at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/curriculum/biling/
elps.html.
What are the ELPS?
Part of required curriculum for each subject including proficiency standards and level descriptors
What are Level Descriptors? Beginning Students- few
simple conversations Intermediate Students-
requests clarification, needs adaptations and supports
Advanced Students-seeks clarification with some processing time
Advanced High Students- longer discussions on unfamiliar topics
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What does this mean?
ELLs need social and academic English language proficiency to be successful.
ELLs must READ, WRITE, LISTEN, and SPEAK in increasing complexity.
What are the District’s Responsibilities?
Identify students’ proficiency levels Provide linguistically accommodated
content instruction Provide linguistically accommodated
content-based language instruction Focused, targeted, and systematic language
instruction for beginning and intermediate ELLs (Grade 3 or higher)
What do I need to do now?
TEACH students language and strategies to use when they don’t know what to say.
Strategies to Encourage Proficiency
Encourage students to speak in complete sentences. This should be the culture of the classroom.
What Else Can We Do Now?
Use response signals for students to monitor their own comprehension(thinker’s chin, thumbs up).
Use strategies for pre-reading, during reading, and post reading.
Engagement
Make sure you ask every student in the classroom to participate. Turn to the person next to you and discuss a strategy you will use this year in your classroom to ensure whole class participation.
Lesson Plans Are All In My Head!
Lesson planning is essential in order to differentiate instruction!
Formative AssessmentFormative Assessment
Can someone tell us what the ELPS are, and what part they
must play in our AISD classrooms?
Think-Pair-Share
Turn to the person next to you and discuss how these strategies will help your ELLs in your classroom.
A Question for the McCallum Knights…
After a brief discussion, share with us a strategy that works well for promoting accountable talk in the classroom.
More Information on the ELPS to come!
The district and your campus will provide more information on this new standard during the school year. Your campus ELA teachers will be quite well-versed in more ELPS strategies next week!
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