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