Beyond Curriculum: Developing Comprehensive SLIFE/ELL Programs
Location
Bowie C
Focused Area
Improving the Educational Setting of Students in ESOL Programs
Relevance to Focused Area
Our programming has improved attendance and academic grades for ELL and SIFE students despite past educational experiences and background. The programming has measurable positive outcomes that can be replicated in any high school.
Primary Strand
Academic Achievement & School Leadership
Relevance to Primary Strand
ELL and SIFE students (many times refugees as well) face multiple hurdles in seekingeducation includinglanguage barriers, limited or disrupted education,various forms of discrimination and issue of personal safety. We have identified best teaching practices in relation to these students and created several tiers of support to meet their holistic needs. Our strategies and programs have effectively improved overall attendance and graduation rate. These practices and program can easily be replicated in other districts for limited costs.
Brief Program Description
SLIFE/ESL Students at the High School Level
Attend this workshop to learn howPrinceton Public School Districthas created an active year-round learning environment that engages students in curricular and co-curricular activities that aid in increasing English language proficiency and invites students to become active participants in the school community.
Summary
Based on the conceptual framework formulated byWidaand supplemented by several key printresources includingresearch from Cal Linguistics, and New York and Denver publicschools wehave designed a program that addresses the needs of SIFE students in order to help them acquire English and be successful in and out of school.
Our presentation will include steps to creating a Welcome Center and a summer English camp. An administrator will be present to discuss scheduling and graduation requirements. A history ESOL teacher will present curriculum and teaching practices that can be utilized by all teachers at the secondary level and the director of the summer camp will present on programming and college and career support services.
Evidence
The practices we have implemented have motivated our students and have improved their attendance and engagement in school. Our improved relations with community organizations have resulted in more resources and programming support. Students outside the ESL program as well as an increased number of faculty members have become involved in this work. We will present small scale and large scale changes that attendees can implement in their own schools.
Our dropout rate for ELL/SLIFE students has improved by 50% and the last two classes of ESL/SLIFE students that graduated are attending Community College or Adult Vocational School.
Format
Individual Presentation
Biographical Sketch
Jessica Baxter has 13 years of experience as an ESL teacher and Assistant Principal of Schools; Andrea Dinan has 19 years of experience working in teaching and guidance; Christine Carbone has 12 years of teaching history and ESL. All work at Princeton High School and have developed, implemented and enhancedthe theESL Instructional Program, the ELL Summer Program and the ELL After School Program.
Start Date
10-26-2017 12:30 PM
End Date
10-26-2017 1:45 PM
Recommended Citation
Dinan, Andrea; Baxter, Jessica; and Carbone, Christine, "Beyond Curriculum: Developing Comprehensive SLIFE/ELL Programs" (2017). National Youth-At-Risk Conference, West (2015-2017). 6.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar_vegas/2017/2017/6
Beyond Curriculum: Developing Comprehensive SLIFE/ELL Programs
Bowie C
SLIFE/ESL Students at the High School Level
Attend this workshop to learn howPrinceton Public School Districthas created an active year-round learning environment that engages students in curricular and co-curricular activities that aid in increasing English language proficiency and invites students to become active participants in the school community.
