1. Building a Successful Adult ESL Program
Anthony Tyrrell Eric Beecher Rady Sharkova-Foster

2. Where is your ESL Program in terms of its life cycle?
Start Up
Growth
Improve
Start up Growth Improve Reinvent Mature
Reinvent
Mature

3. What number of ESL students are served?
0 - 99
ESL Students served
300+

4. What types of classes are offered?
Only ESL
ESL + Citizenship
Only ESL ESL+Citizenship ESL+Citizenship+Workforce
ESL + Citizenship + Workforce

5. How do you enroll students?
Open Enrollment
Open enrollment Managed enrollment
Managed Enrollment

6. How are your teachers employed?
Full-time
Part-time
Full-time Part-time Volunteers
Volunteers

7. OCCC ESL Program ESL Classes Literacy Int. 1 & 2 TOEFL Tutoring & Labs
Beginning
Int. 1 & 2
Adv. 1 & 2
TOEFL
ESL
Classes
ESL Classes (Life Skills):
Literacy
Beginning
Intermediate
Advanced I and II
TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
ESL Blended Learning
Computer Basics
IELCE/Citizenship
Volunteer Tutoring and Labs (Conversation and Writing)
Tutoring & Labs
Comp. Basics
Burlington English
IELCE & Citizenship

9. Great Teachers An Intake Process A Vision for Student Success
Keys to Success
Great Teachers
An Intake Process
A Vision for Student Success

10. What is the Most Important Quality of a Successful ESL Teacher?
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13. What Makes a Great Teacher – Let’s Make Our Own Word Cloud
Engaging Challenging Empowering Informed Positive
Tech Savvy Teachable Organized Passionate Qualified

14. Great Teachers Finding Them Hiring Them Guiding Them Great Teachers

15. (Indeed/Social Media)
Great Teachers
Finding Them
Job Fair
Word of Mouth
Great Teachers
Finding Them
Hiring Them
Guiding Them
Internet
(Indeed/Social Media)
Partnerships

16. Great Teachers Hiring Them Knowing What We Want Setting Up for Success
Minimum Qualifications
Setting Up for Success
Experience
Passion
Resume & Cover Letter
Ten Min. Demo
Questions
Selection
Interview Process
Knowing What We Want
Setting Ourselves Up for Success
The Entryway - Minimum Qualifications
Resume and Cover Letters
Experience and passion
Interview Process
Show Us You Can Teach Adult ESL Students – the Ten-minute Teaching Demonstration
Questions
Selection of Candidates

17. On-going in-house training
Great Teachers
In-service 2x per year
Guiding Them
New Hire Training
Communication
Begins at New Hire Training
Handbook-Knowledge
Training Points Checklist (handout)
Continues at In-service (Beginning of Each Semester)
Communicating Expectations (handout)
Rapport-building, Guidance, and Availability
In-house Training to Meet Program Objectives.
Summer Training
Vlog series
On-going in-house training
Availability

18. Great Teachers Evaluating Them Teacher Expectations Class Observations
Teacher Expectations (at new hire/beginning of year)
Student Class Surveys
Teacher Self-evaluations
Getting Better All the Time
End-of-Year Checkout
Student Surveys
Teacher Self-Evaluations
End-of-Year Checkout

19. Intake Process Forms Orientation
Student Intake
Intake Process
Forms
Orientation

20. Intake Process

21. Forms
Enrollment
Conduct form
Best Literacy
NRS approved

22. Orientation Goal Setting Forms Policies Pre-test Placement
Goal Setting—Why are you here?
Job, citizen, use a computer, help your kids at school
Forms
Policies and procedures
Attendance
Locations and class schedule
Pre-test
Placement
Data entry and tracking
Placement
Data Tracking

23. Managed Enrollment Scheduled orientationsX
Scheduled orientations
Students start 1st of each month X X
Orientation Schedule
Once a month students start the class
Teachers are notified of new students who will be attending
Notify teachers of new students

24. What is student success?
Think pair share or something like this

25. Student Success Earning a post-secondary degree or credential
Obtaining Citizenship
Getting a better job
Becoming a better Parent, Worker, Citizen

26. Model for Student Success
Parent
Worker
Citizen
ESL - Life Skills
Post-Secondary Education
Career certification
TOEFL
Employment opportunities
Career Success Classes

27. Celebrating Our Journey
“I am really grateful…
I enrolled at the OCCC Family and Community Education Center to learn more English and get the American citizenship, and I happily achieved one of my goals.
I started GED classes, TOEFL classes, and I hope to become a pediatric nurse.”
“I am really grateful for having the opportunity to retake my school education. I got married when I was too young, so I decided to stop my education to take care of my family. After seventeen years my three children have grown up, and one more time, I had the great opportunity to return to school. Two and a half years ago I enrolled at the OCCC Family and Community Education Center to learn more English, and I started in the intermediate classes. They helped me have more confidence. Then I decided to continue working hard to get the American citizenship, and I happily achieved one of my goals. After that I continued my education and started GED classes. Again, I studied hard to try to accomplish my goal. Now I am in the TOEFL classes, and I hope to continue forward to become a pediatric nurse.” Georgina Fabela
I am really grateful
I enrolled at the OCCC Family and Community Education Center to learn more English and get the American citizenship, and I happily achieved one of my goals.
I started GED classes, TOEFL classes, and I hope to become a pediatric nurse.

28. Anthony Tyrrell atyrrell@occc.edu Eric Beecher eric.p.beecher@occc.edu
MAY 2018
Anthony Tyrrell
Eric Beecher
Rady Sharkova-Foster