1. CONTENT-BASED ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) PROGRAMS
   1. What are Content-Based English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs?
      1. Description: The Content-Based English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs are linguistics-based program with dual focus on language and subject matter, with emphasis on content-based classes and lessons for English Language Learners students
   2. Objectives:
      1. Develop the learner's English Literacy Skills (speaking, reading, writing, and understanding the English language)
      2. Reflect on the learner's goals while considering their roles as family members, community participants, workers and lifelong learners
      3. Provide learners with the skills to apply English accurately and appropriately in a variety of home, community, workplace and academic settings
      4. Use assessment activities to document the learners' progress toward advancement to other training programs, employment, post-secondary education, self-sufficiency, attainment of a secondary school diploma, and other goals
      5. Integrate second language acquisition with relevant life experiences by emphasizing development of critical thinking, problem solving and other culturally-specific skills necessary for self-sufficiency
      6. Providing a non-threatening learning environment that respects adult ESL learners and integrates their cultural back grounds and experiences into the instructional process
   3. Standards:
      1. Language
         1. A learning environments that support ESOL students’ language and literacy development and content-area achievement
            1. Teaching Solutions & Recommendations
            2. Use “Six-T’s Approach” to Developing Content-Based Lessons
            3. Themes
            4. Texts
            5. Topics
            6. Threads
            7. Tasks
            8. Transitions
            9. Work with students at various proficiency levels, using techniques related to using content-based instruction with (literate) beginners, false beginners, intermediate, and advanced language learners
            10. Incorporate numerous technological resources that can be used in content-based instruction. These include Internet resources, such as websites that give information about language learning and teaching, as well as those that provide subject matter information
            11. Video
            12. Content-Based Approach
      2. Culture
         1. A learning environment that support ESOL students’ cultural identities
            1. Teaching Solutions & Recommendations
            2. Multicultural Education
            3. Use examples, data, and information from a variety of cultures and groups to illustrate key concepts, principles, generalizations, and theories in subject area/discipline
            4. Culturally responsive teaching
            5. Respect for students and belief in their potential as learners,
            6. Caring environments and personal connections with students and families,
            7. Cultural congruity between home and school, and
            8. Active teaching and a wide range of authentic assessments that tap into students’ learning
            9. Congruity between home and school
            10. Communicating clearly when giving directions and presenting new information,
            11. Pacing instruction appropriately,
            12. Promoting students’ involvement,
            13. Communicating clear expectations for success on tasks,
            14. Monitoring students’ progress, and
            15. Providing immediate feedback
            16. Video
            17. English Language Learners: Culture, Equity and Language
      3. Planning, Implementing, & Managing
         1. A learning environment that incorporates standards-based practices and strategies related to planning, implementing, and managing ESL and content instruction
            1. Teaching Solutions & Recommendations
            2. 1-Mission Statement
            3. Have a clearly philosophy & goals, developed with appropriate input from internal & external stakeholders on file
            4. 2-Advisory Board
            5. Maintain meeting records & communication
            6. 3-Public Accessibility
            7. Ensure public access to mission statement, objectives, & standards
            8. 4-System of Governance
            9. Ensures accountability & effective administration of all program activities
            10. 5-Personnel
            11. Personnel with experience/awareness of the specific needs of ESL learners
            12. 6-Instructional Offerings
            13. Ensure instructions are organized & consistent with the program mission & goals & with the goals/needs of learners
            14. 7-Curriculum
            15. Includes learning goals, materials, and resources in curriculum
            16. 8-Comprehensive Assessment, Evaluation Policies, & Procedures
            17. Ensure assessment, evaluations, & procedures link assessment to instruction and learner goals and needs.
      4. Professionalism
         1. A learning environment in which teachers collaborate with colleagues across disciplines and serve as a resource to all staff to improve learning for all ESOL students
            1. Teaching Solutions & Recommendations
            2. Share Resources with Equal Access
            3. Document & Share Success & Challenges
            4. Share Ideas & Plan Programs Together
            5. Co-teach (Main Teacher and Special Provider)
            6. Co-develop Instructional Material
            7. Collaborate Assessment of Student Work, Teacher-Parent Meetings, & Writing Report Cards
            8. SLIDE SHOW-
            9. Collaborative Teaching: What to Do & How to Do It
2. SECONDARY NEWCOMER LITERACY PROGRAM
   1. What is the Secondary Newcomer Literacy Program?
      1. Description: The Secondary Newcomer Literacy Program prepares ELL students with limited formal education background to become successful in school & in the post-secondary world.
   2. Objectives:
      1. Promote the accomplishments and potential of ELL students throughout the greater educational community
      2. Empower language learners to reach for success
      3. Accentuate the positive qualities and assets of ELLs
      4. Ensure that Teachers serve as advocates on the behalf of ELL students that contribute to the changing educational landscape
      5. Ensure that all educational partners, (stakeholders, paraprofessionals, superintendents, etc.) make a difference in the education of ELL students
      6. Send a powerful message that students from diverse linguistic, cultural, and experiential backgrounds enrich their schools and communities
      7. Video
         1. Secondary Literacy Coaches as Critical Change Agents: A Critical Analysis
   3. Classroom Ideas that Support Objectives
      1. (1) picture flashcards for phonics
      2. (2) playing games: two truths and a lie/bingo/matching games
      3. (3) engaging students in physically active reading activities
      4. (4) combining listening and reading
      5. (5) using music
      6. (6) creating picture-based learning walks
      7. (7) having debates in class
      8. (8) videotape classes
      9. (9) giving time limits for each task, incorporate flexible grouping
      10. (10) having students create a class journal or newsletter
      11. (11) using most of the class time for discussion-based learning vs. textbook-based learning
      12. (12) building real projects that students can use in other classes or later in life
      13. (13) using advertisements as well as content
      14. (14) making mistakes/substitutions while reading aloud (see if students can correct the errors)
      15. (15) using technology/internet resources
      16. Video
          1. New Comer Ideas
   4. Standards:
      1. 1-Language & Cultures
         1. Students’ languages and cultures are valuable resources to be tapped and incorporated into schooling
      2. 2-Home, School, and Community Experience
         1. Students’ home, school, and community experiences influence their language development
      3. 3-Metacognitive, Metalinguistic, and Metacultural Awareness
         1. Students draw on their metacognitive, metalinguistic, and metacultural awareness to develop proficiency in additional languages
      4. 4-Native Language
         1. Students' academic language development in their native language facilitates their academic language development in English. Conversely, students' academic language development in English informs their academic language development in their native language
      5. 5-Meaningful Use & Interaction
         1. Students learn language and culture through meaningful use and interaction
      6. 6-Functional and Communicative Language
         1. Students use language in functional and communicative ways that vary according to context
      7. 7-Language Proficiency
         1. Students develop language proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing interdependently, but at different rates and in different ways.
      8. 8-Academic Language & Academic Content Knowledge
         1. Students’ development of academic language and academic content knowledge are inter-related processes
      9. 9-Social, Instructional, & Academic Language
         1. Students' development of social, instructional, and academic language, a complex and long-term process, is the foundation for their success in school
      10. 10-Instructional Tasks & Complex Thinking
          1. Students’ access to instructional tasks requiring complex thinking is enhanced when linguistic complexity and instructional support match their levels of language proficiency