Sentences with phrase «language learners just»

A kindergarten curriculum for older English language learners just isn't the best choice.

Not exact matches

It takes advantage of «just in time learning» so that language learners can have lessons at their own convenience rather than having to adhere to a set classroom schedule.

As a result, English language learners may score in the 80th percentile on a word reading test, but in just the 19th percentile on a test of reading comprehension.

This is certainly not a complete guide — these are just a few of the most basic practices to keep in mind when teaching English language learners (or, for that matter, probably any second language learner).

Children whose first language is not English are appearing in greater numbers in classrooms across the U.S., and helping those students learn is no longer just a job for a few teachers of English - language - learners.

Her conclusion: Just because an English - language learner does poorly on the math section doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't know the math.

This was just the opening round of what is likely to be a long series of acrimonious debates over policy at the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, on topics including sexual harassment, affirmative action, instruction of English language learners and school discipline — even on who might head the agency.

I would like to think that my students are just a bunch of gifted, enthusiastic readers, but the truth is that all of them are LD learners with severe dyslexia, disorder of written expression, and various forms of speech and language difficulties.

In the Dec. 15 ruling, U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins gave the state until Jan. 24, or just 15 days following the start of its 2006 legislative session, to resolve the issue of paying for English - language learners or be fined $ 500,000 per day for 30 days.

This means that the goal of co-teaching can not just be to bolster student success it must also be to transfer skills, strategies, and understandings to classroom teachers so that they themselves can serve language learners well.

Therefore, to be a learner of language is to not just be an EL, an emerging bilingual or a multilingual learner, but also to be a cultural mediator, a symbol decoder, a truth - finder.

Just to clarify with a a simple example - Jose is an English language learner in the LAUSD.

A systemwide program that offers in - depth reading and writing sessions works for all students, not just English language learners.

Just 68 percent of English language learner (ELL) third - grade students met the «satisfactory» passing standard (a 22 percent gap in comparison to white third - grade students).

It was a wakeup call when teachers at Urban Assembly Academy of Arts & Letters middle school in Brooklyn jointly realized that their most struggling readers were the least engaged learners in all classrooms, not just language arts.

Language learners may come to the classroom with less background knowledge in English, but they have just as much aptitude for learning language and content when teachers scaffold instruction for both.

Rather than focus attention and resources on schools that serve just 4 % of our students, let's focus resources and support on the schools that serve the vast majority of all students: rich and poor, black and white, typical and disabled, English speakers and English language learners.

«It's not just an ESL teacher, but it's the whole school focusing on the needs of English language learners,» she said.

That's an impressive turnaround for any school — not just one for language - learners.

The pattern did not hold, however, for former English language learners who were just as likely to attend non-zoned schools as students who had never been classified as English language learners.

At Carver Elementary in Oak Park, where students speak eight different languages, just over half the school's students are English learners.

Teach for America teachers work with not just the poor, but also English language learners and special education students.

Recent test results tell us that only 5.2 % of Oakland's English language learners are proficient in English, and just 8.3 % are proficient in mathematics.

And just as with the CAASPP exams, students with exceptional needs who take the approved exam must be provided with appropriate accommodations, or be administered the California Alternate Assessments, and English learners must be provided appropriate accommodations, including access to testing instruction in their primary language, bilingual glossaries and extended testing time.

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