ESL Program                                                               Return to Curriculum & Instruction 

NYSED Requirements 

Standards

  • English for information and understanding

  • English for literary response, enjoyment, and expression

  • English for critical analysis and evaluation

  • English for social and classroom interaction

  • English for cross-cultural knowledge and understanding

Testing:

  • NYSESLAT (New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test) - Assessment

  • LAB-R (Language Assessment Battery Revised) - Identification

Our Population:  K-12

Number of students by grade and languages of our ELL students:

Grade Number of ELL Students
K 11
1 10
2 12
3 6
4 3
5 2
6 4
7 7
8 7
9 3
10 3
11 5
12 10

 

ELL Programs
 Flexible Grouping
Cluster Grouping
Co-teach
Push-in
Pull-out
Learning Center
ELL Lab support
Reading Support Services		 Languages of our ELL Students
 Spanish
Creole
Urdu
Chinese
Malayalam
Korean
Polish
   

Strengths

Many students achieving academically at or above grade level

Socialization in mainstream

Advances self-esteem

ELL teacher model teaching learning strategies for non-ELL teacher

Regular subject teachers share curriculum and materials with ELL teachers

Curriculum and materials can be modified and adapted as needed

Student tutors

Teachers are sensitive and offer extra help

Districtwide Teachers:

William O. Schaefer:  sfoster@socd.org
Tappan Zee Elementary:  Rebecca Williams - rwilliams@socsd.org
Cottage Lane/South Orangetown Middle School:  Jamie Fodor - jfodor@socsd.org
Tappan Zee High School:  Elizabeth Fearen - efearen@socsd.org
 

ESL at Tappan Zee High School
 The ESL Department at TZHS currently serves students from nine different countries and eight discreet linguistic backgrounds.  The goal of our ESL Department is to provide English Language Learners with the language skills they need to succeed in our District, our community, and our country.  Two years ago, the ESL Department  adopted a co-teach model of collaborative education to support ELL's in content area classes, such as World History, Living Environment, Active Physics, and English 11R.  This has had the interesting effect of turning our classroom into something of one room schoolhouse, with teaching aids from a variety of subjects posted around the room.
 

Links:

NYS Bilingual/ESL Network:
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/nysben.htm

The Bilingual/ESL Technical Assistance Center (BETAC)
http://www2.lhric.org/swboces/cpdcs/betac/index.html