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Page 1: Colonial Beach Public Schools “Striving For Excellence” Title III Program  Abigail Smith, Director  Eight Participating Students Grades K – 12 CLIMBS.

Colonial Beach Public Schools “Striving For Excellence”

Title III Program Abigail Smith, Director Eight Participating Students

Grades K – 12

CLIMBS Training Participants: Abigail Smith, Erika Cornwell, Karen Camlin, And Lisa Mott

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Title III Program

Students identified as ELLs participate in an after school vocabulary enrichment program.

Students attend a pre-lesson - introducing academic topic and accompanying vocabulary.

Students attend field trip on Saturday (experiential learning experience)

Students attend post lesson to wrap up lesson review activities from pre-lesson and vocabulary.

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Past Trips

Smithsonian Museums

Air and Space Museum

American Indian Museum

Natural History Museum

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Other Excursions Include...

Baltimore Aquarium Mount Vernon Riverside Dinner

Theater Department of

Defense Open House and Air Show

Richmond Science Museum

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Title III Program Plan for Improvement

Phase 1 – Title III Coordinator and Teachers attend CLIMBS Training

Phase 2 – Present to Superintendent of schools and Principals

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Improvement Plan Cont.

Phase 3 - Superintendent and Principals disseminate information and requirements to teachers

Phase 4 – Teachers utilize “crosswalks” to implement WIDA standards in classroom.

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Phase 1

Title III Coordinator, Elementary School Guidance Counselor and two General Education Teachers attend WIDA CLIMBS Training.

October 6-7, November 4-5, and December 1.

Group received training on PLCs, Instructional Planning, Assessment, Building Schema, and Lesson Delivery.

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Professional Learning Communities

• PLCs play an integral part in the implementation of new programs into a school system.

– PLCs must have a clearly defined mission (goal)

– Time must be provided during the school day for a PLC to meet.

– Colleagues must work together as professionals to meet the goal of the PLC.

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CBPS Title III PLC

• Mission – The Colonial Beach Public School's Title III PLC will educate administrators and teachers on the WIDA standards and implementation of crosswalks into general education classrooms.

– Goals: • Teachers will include WIDA standards in weekly

lesson plans as they correlate with Virginia SOLs. • Teachers will work collaboratively to insure that

students are prepared for the WIDA Access for ELLs assessment given in the spring of the school year.

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Colonial Beach Public Schools Lesson Plan Adaptation

Please see sample of current CBPS lesson plan format.

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Instructional Planning

In order to plan appropriate lessons for ELLs teachers must know and understand the Performance Definitions for ELP levels

1 - Entering through 6 – Reaching.

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Figure 5B: Performance Definitions

WIDA Consortium ELP Standards and Participation Guide

• See Handout with level descriptors (pg. RG-45).

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WIDA CONSORTIUM English Language Proficiency

Standards• Packets have been created for each

grade level general education teacher outlining the ELP standards for the grade and content taught.

• These standards should be integrated into the general education classroom.

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Student Objectives

• Blooms Taxonomy should be utilized when creating objectives for students from the ELP standards.

• Students should complete tasks which require them to use a variety of thinking strategies from remembering to creating.

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Bloom's TaxonomyActions Products

CREATINGDesigningconstructingproducingmaking

FilmStoryNew gameSongAdvertisement

EVALUATINGHypothesizingTestingMonitoringChecking

DebateReportInvestigationPersuasive Speech

ANALYZINGComparingOrganizingOutlining

SurveyGraphOutlineChart

APPLYINGUsingCarrying OutImplementing

IllustrationDemonstrationDiaryJournal

UNDERSTANDINGSummarizingClassifyingComparingExplaining

ListShow and TellLabelOutline

REMEMBERINGDescribingNamingListingRecognizing

WorksheetTestDefinitionLabel

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Assessment

Students should be given formative and summative assessments to evaluate their

progress. Formative Assessments – frequent classroom

assessments (daily, weekly) – quizzes, projects, etc...

Summative Assessments – Assesses material over a long period of time – Unit tests, SOL Tests.

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Yearly Assessments given to ELLs

English language learners participate in regular general education assessments (quizzes, tests, projects, etc...)

ELLs participate in yearly SOL tests.

(Students at levels 1 – 3 are eligible to participate in VGLA)

ELLs participate in the WIDA Access for ELLs assessment yearly.

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ACCESS for ELLs

• This assessment measures English language proficiency in the content areas.

• Students receive a scale score and a proficiency level for:

• Listening• Speaking• Reading• Writing

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The Scores

• Students receive a scale score out of a possible 600 points (100-600).

• Scale scores are interpreted into proficiency scores.

• Proficiency level scores range from 1.0 – 6.0.

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The Reports

• There are five ACCESS score reports

• Teacher Report

• Parent Report

• Student Roster Report

• School Frequency Report

• District Frequency Report

• It is the school systems responsibility to disseminate reports to recipients.

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The Facts

• ELLs are assessed more than any other subgroup.

• Students must be prepared for the spring ACCESS for ELLs assessment.

• Teachers must incorporate the WIDA ELP standards in daily instruction to prepare students.

• This must be mandated school wide.

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Next Steps...

CLIMBS Participants will present information to Sups., and principals (December 7 – 11, 2009).

Teachers will be given the WIDA crosswalks and trained to utilize to aid in instruction.

Additional administrative staff and teachers will attend WIDA training in spring.

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Sources

The WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards and Resource Guide, 2009 Edition, Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12.