Long-Term ELLs
Long-term ELLs are students who remain in ELL status even after six years of ENL service. Academic Language Plan is a support plan for a student struggling to demonstrate English Language Proficiency after six years.
The Academic Language Plan is based on these principles:
Opportunities for Learning:
Instruction provides ELLs with opportunities to engage in discipline-specific practices to build conceptual understanding, analytical practices, and language competence simultaneously
Standards-aligned instruction for ELLS is rigorous, grade-level appropriate, and provides deliberate and appropriate scaffolds
Asset Orientation
Instruction leverages Ells' home language(s), cultural assets, and prior knowledge
Instruction moves ELLs forward by taking into account their English proficiency level(s) and prior schooling experiences
Developing Autonomy
Instruction fosters ELLs' autonomy by equipping them with strategies necessary to comprehend and use language in a variety of academic settings
Formative assessment practices, and language development simultaneously