NC Essential Standards: English Language Development
Training for Gaston County Elementary Schools
Spring 2012
I. Objectives
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I can distinguish academic language that is critical for English Language
Learners to learn in my class.
I can use WIDA MPI’s to create or adapt lesson objectives for ELLs at various
proficiency levels.
I can collaborate with the ESL teacher in order to determine my students’ ELP’s,
instructional supports for my students, and language objectives.
I can describe the roles of the classroom teacher and the ESL teacher in an
ELL’s education.
II. Alphabet Soup
ESL
English as a Second Language
LEP
Limited English Proficient
ELL
English Language Learner
ELD
English Language Development
CCSS
Common Core State Standards (Math and ELA)
ES
Essential Standards (all other subject areas)
NC ES ELD North Carolina Essential Standards for English Language Development
WIDA
World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment
(NC’s source for standards and assessments for the ESL program)
MPI
Model Performance Indicator (WIDA’s objectives are called MPI’s)
ELP
English Language Proficiency
L1
Primary Language
L2
Target Language
NC ES ELD
Gaston County Schools
2012
III. NCDPI Module
UNDERSTANDING THE STANDARDS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
“The North Carolina Essential Standards for English language learners, also known as
the English Language Development Standards, are the WIDA English Language
Proficiency Standards.”
1. The North Carolina English Language Development Standards are for _________
teachers of English language learners (ELLs).
2. Content teachers as well as ESL teachers are responsible for integrating these
standards into _________________ instruction.
3. The WIDA standards focus on the development of the students’ social and academic
_______________________________________________ over time and are designed
to be used for instruction of ELLs in _________ content areas.
4. The focus of the standards is teaching students to use
________________________________________________________________.
5. The WIDA standards are the bridge which connects __________________ to
___________________, thereby making content accessible to English language
learners.
6. The extent to which an English language learner can express understanding and
communicate in English is very limited at levels ______ and ______.
7. ELLs must move forward in learning ______________________________________
while at the same time developing _________________________________________.
8, Content teachers should use the WIDA standards documents to _______________
_____________________________________________________in their classrooms.
9. ESL teachers should teach ____________________________________ , not
____________________ .
10. __________________________________________________________________
must occur to effectively integrate academic language and content.
NC ES ELD
Gaston County Schools
2012
IV. Reflection Activity
At your table, think of one objective you have taught:
How would you teach it? Discuss and take notes here:
V. Model Performance Indicators
The language function describes how the student communicates, and corresponds to
one of the four language domains: reading, writing, speaking, or listening.
The topic is the subject area concept of the lesson.
The support can be graphic, interactive, or sensory.
Examples:
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I can discuss the stages of the water cycle using sequence words with a partner
using a word bank.
I can label features of the Earth based on diagrams or models.
I can sequence descriptive sentences and pictures to illustrate forms of
conservation.
I can repeat information about math operations using manipulatives and teacher
models (e.g., “Here are three groups of four.”)
I can give a partner directions from one place to another on maps or globes,
using sequential language.
WIDA website: www.wida.us
NC ES ELD
Gaston County Schools
2012