January 2022
TESOL News
1 Best Practice Tip
1 Nugget of Knowledge about EL's
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Anticipatory Guide-
Create an anticipatory guide for lessons that are heavy on student listening. This guide can be formatted a variety of different ways. One way to do this is by creating a list of true or false questions that student answers as you are speaking. This will allow students to have two methods of language input (listening and reading), while reflecting on the content presented. A different way this could be formatted is by creating sentence frames for the student to fill in while they are listening to content. This will also allow students to have two methods of language input, while reflecting on the content presented.
For more information, see this link provided by ELPA21.
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TLTR (TOO LONG TO READ)?
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Anticipatory Guides
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Create true or false questions
or sentence frames that cover
content being presented for
multiple methods of language
input
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ELPA21 is taken each year to assess
student language proficiency
JANUARY EVENTS
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Martin Luth King Jr.
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Monday, January 17th
Brooklyn Tribute to MLK
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Monday, January 17th 11:30 AM
Joy as an Act of Resistance
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Monday, January 17th On Demand
January Information Nugget:
ELPA21 Information ​
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Each year between February and March each of our ESOL students take what is called the ELPA21 assessment. ELPA
stands for English Language Proficiency Assessment. This assessment evaluates students in the four domains of language: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. In each domain, the student is scored on a 1-5 scale. A one indicates
that the student has very little English, and a five indicates proficiency. A student who scores fours and fives on each domain, they will no longer receive ESOL services. When this happens, they are monitored by the ESOL teacher for at least two years. Our students will begin taking these assessments in about three weeks, so wish them luck!
Please reference this document for FAQ's.
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