Teaching English Learners

Provides instruction to ALL students in 2 languages

• Transitional Bilingual Education

• Two-Way immersion

• Developmental Bilingual Education

• English as a Second Language

Academic content instruction is provided in the student’s native language

• Two-way Immersion

• Transitional bilingual education

• developmental bilingual education

• English as a Second Language

English instruction is provided in English only or may be delivered in the student’s home language

• Two-Way immersion

• Developmental bilingual Education

• Transitional Bilingual Education

• English as a Second Language

Academic content instruction is provided in native language and the goal is English proficiency.

• Transitional bilingual education

• ESL

• Two-Way Immersion

• Developmental Bilingual Education

Which type of bilingual program had students that made the greatest gains on standardized reading assessments?

• ESL

• Two-way immersion

• Transitional bilingual education

This teacher is fluent in and provides instruction in more than one language

• Bilingual Teacher

• ESL teacher

Provides instruction in English and does not need to be fluent in a second language

• Bilingual teacher

• Bilingual paraeducator

• ESL teacher

Students learning two languages at the same time.

• Simultaneous bilinguals

• sequential bilinguals

• English learners

Strong first language and learning English as a second language

• Simultaneous bilinguals

• Sequential bilinguals

Math is easy for English language learners because numbers are universal.

• TRUE

• MYTH