Greenville County MLP Goals and Objectives

The goal of Greenville County School District’s MLP is to provide equitable educational opportunities to culturally and linguistically diverse students who have a primary or first language other than English.  The primary focus is to provide an English-rich environment with a variety of opportunities to reach English language proficiency as soon as possible.  Greenville County Schools is working to create a learning environment that encourages pride in cultural heritage and supporting Multilingual Learners (MLs) towards graduation plus.    

The Multilingual Learner Program strives to achieve the following learning objectives:

• To identify and assess all students whose first or primary language is one other than English as indicated on the SC Enrollment Survey.

• To provide MLP services for MLs in all English language domains:  Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.  

• To assess and monitor the academic progress of MLs with an on-going evaluation process.

• To create a learning environment that provides for the affective and cognitive needs of MLs.

• To communicate instructional goals and expectations to parents and encourage them to support their children’s progress.

• To provide MLP personnel with professional development in appropriate instructional, assessment and culturally responsive teaching strategies needed to support MLs.

• To hire and maintain staff to provide MLs with an equitable educational opportunity.

• To monitor students who have exited the program to assure continued language and academic success.

• To provide professional development for content area teachers to equip them with tools needed to educate MLs in their classroom.