ESOL Roles and Goals
Role of the ESOL Resource
- To help students develop English skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
- To help students in subject areas.
- To help give students strategies to use for comprehension of materials.
- To help teachers develop strategies to use in a mainstream classroom setting.
- To help the parents of ESOL students understand their child's progress in language development.
- To help students connect their individual culture to their surroundings.
Goals
Goal one - Increase listening skills of students
- Give clear and direct instruction
- Ask questions to provide clarification
- Use vocabulary that follows a classroom theme
- Support communication activities between students
- Use repetition
- Use graphics/pictures to aid in comprehension
Goal two - Increase speaking abilities
- Encourage dialogue in the classroom setting
- Allow students time to formulate responses
- Rephrase questions for clarification
- Use vocabulary in speaking that follows a classroom theme
- Use select time to correct inaccuracies in speech
- Practice letters, blending and word sound
- Repetition through singing, reading, poetry, talking and word cards
- Emphasize vocabulary words in lessons
Goal three - Increase writing activities
- Give students guided writing activities (i.e tracing, fill in the blank, graphic organizers)
- Give students strategies for successful writing
- Allow repetitive practice
- Give specific topics with specific information
- Give writing activities that follow a classroom theme
- Give instant corrections so students will be able to compare their mistakes to correct answers
- Provide accurate samples for students to model or compare their work against
Goal four - Increase reading abilities
- Provide multiple levels of reading materials
- Provide guided reading time
- Focus on content of reading selections
- Focus on vocabulary of reading selections
- Give strategies to pull content from a passage or book
- Use repetitive books where students will use repeated words or phrases
- Use books with pictures
- Use books that follow a classroom theme
- Use vocabulary exercises to strengthen word knowledge/recognition
- Use of word building games/flashcards
Performance Measures
- The teacher will plan appropriate lessons for language level
- The teacher will create a schedule for students to receive ESOL instruction
- The teacher will use hands on/interactive activities
- The teacher will incorportate the mainstream classroom activities/topics into ESOL classes
- The teacher will provide inclusion lessons for classroom teachers
- The teacher will communicate with classroom teachers about student's performance and progress
- The teacher will create a positive low pressure dynamic to allow students to feel comfortable to participate in class
- The teacher will use assessments such as IPT, ELDA, ITBS and PACT to monitor the student's language growth
- The teacher will use informal assessments to monitor student's growth
- The teacher will communicate the student's progress to parents
- The teacher will maintain an accurate student roster with all pertinent information