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