WIDA- Clinical 1

WIDA acronym originally came from what three states in a grant proposal?

• West Virginia, Delaware, Alaska

• Washington, Denmark, Arlington

• Wisconsin, Delaware, and Arkansas

• Wyoming, Denmark, and Arkansas

What year did the WIDA acronym meaning change?

• 2001

• 2000

• 2002

• 2003

Before we had WIDA we had?

Why did the acronym change?

• Every state was already using the same English proficiency tests

• They wanted to change things up

• The three states received funding to develop standards for emergent bilinguals

What are some ways in your classroom that you can advocate for your emergent bilingual students?

Please list two words that can describe the guiding principles of language development.

True or False: The can do philosophy is the belief that ALL students bring established knowledge, skills, and ways of seeing and understanding the world from their homes and communities.

• True

• False

Features of academic language uses what?

True or False: the WIDA English Language Development standards changes from 2012 to 2020?

• False

• True

There are 5 ELD standards. What are the abbreviations?