3 pages Bilingual

1) Please explain the components of the Prism Model and why these components are important in creating a welcoming school that promotes success for English Learners.

2) There have been many programs and ideas in the US Public schools for how best to serve English Learners and close the gap between those who enter school speaking English and those who have to learn English along the way.

Following is a list of Bilingual Education Models that have been tried. According to the text book and the research of Virginia Collier and Wayne Thomas, please rate the following programs from 1-6 with 1 being the most effective program for student success and 6 being the least effective program for learning English:

__________Maintenance Bilingual Ed., Self-Contained

__________Transitional Bilingual Ed.

__________One-way Dual Language

__________Pull-out Bilingual Ed.

__________Two-way Dual Language

__________Enrichment Bilingual Education (30 min. per day)

The following programs are designed for ELs who do not live in an area where bilingual ed. is available or do not qualify for bilingual education due to the language they speak. Please rate the following ESL programs on a scale of 1-4 with 1 being the most successful way to teach English and 4 being the least effective program:

__________ESL Pull-out

__________Sheltered Instruction in the regular classroom

__________Total emersion with no language support

__________English enrichment, 30 minutes per day, by classroom teacher

3) Please explain the difference between a 50/50 model and a 90/10 model of Dual Language Education.

4) Why does 2-way Dual Language Education usually have better results than 1-way Dual Language Education?

5) In order to have an effective Dual Language program, there are two important things teachers should not do. What are they?

6) What does it mean to see other cultures not as a deficit but as a difference? Why is this idea important to your classroom?

7) We are required to have many formal assessments in our educational curriculum. However, informal assessment can be much more informative to the teacher of language learners. Please explain why Informal Assessments might be a better way for the teacher to know the true level of the student.

8) Please identify the following assessments as:

Formal, Informal, Authentic, Pre-Assessment, Formative, Summative, Standardized or Language Assessment.

You can use more than one assessment type in each space---

An interview with a student_________________________________________________

A science experiment______________________________________________________

The WIDA______________________________________________________________

A mid-term exam_________________________________________________________

Teacher observation_______________________________________________________

A Portfolio______________________________________________________________

Having students design a game_______________________________________________

The Tic Tac Tell activity ___________________________________________________

An oral presentation _______________________________________________________

The PARCC Test_________________________________________________________

A survey to see what students know about a topic________________________________

This exam_______________________________________________________________

9) In class we participated in a scaffolding activity in which we wrote Hai Ku poetry. Why would scaffolding, as we did it in class, be good for any subject area, such as math, for helping kids to learn a concept?

10) Chapter 8 in the text suggests 12 recommended actions for improving schools. Please comment on Action 8 by explaining what it means, how it can be accomplished, and why it is important for English Learners.