1. Greeneville City Schools K-5 Professional Development October 14, 2009
ESL: 101
Greeneville City Schools
K-5 Professional Development
October 14, 2009

2. Questions?
Please write down any questions you have about the ESL program, teaching English as a Second Language, topics you would like to address in these sessions.

3. “Seek first to understand, rather than to be understood.”
–Steven Covey

4. Please complete the ESL: 101 Pre-Test

5. English is the official language of TN
“English is hereby established as the official & legal language of Tennessee. All communications & publications, including ballots, produced by governmental entities in Tennessee shall be in English, & instruction in the public schools & colleges of Tennessee shall be conducted in English unless the nature of the course would require otherwise.”

6. Identifying ELLs Home Language Survey

7. GCS ESL Procedures

8. Funding Title III ESL October 1, 2008—GCS has 76 ESL students
Required ratio—1:45
2 of our teacher salaries come from state and local $
GCS has created a supplemental ESL teacher position through Title VI (Rural Education) funds

9. Accountability
TCAP
AYP subgroup
Gateway/End of Course

10. What do ESL students need to learn?
Social language
Daily interactions
Academic language
More abstract, precise, higher-order thinking
Necessary to express the content knowledge they already have & to process new content
Content
Culture

11. Let’s play…

12. We are ALL English Language Learners!
Remember…
We are ALL English Language Learners!