WorksheetsEL Field - What Staff Should Know by MACH
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
When is a student classified as an "EL Learner" or "EL"?
Based on his language survey.
When the student speaks other language than English.
When the student passed the WIDA Screener.
Only if the student did not pass the WIDA Screener.
What can deceive a content class teacher when an EL student does not turn in assignments, therefore, he is considered "lazy".?
The EL student can speak some English (BICS)
The EL student has passed some classes in previous years.
The student does not come to class very often.
All of the above.
Regardless the fact that a student can speak English even without an accent, when does the student exit the EL program based on NC policies and procedures?
When the EL student scored 5 in reading in the ACCESS tests for EL student.
When the EL student is passing all of this school courses and speaks English.
When the EL student does not take an EL class.
When the EL student passed the ACCESS test based on the current NC WIDA standards.
When does the student become "eligible" to receive instructional accommodations and test accommodations under the EL umbrella?
When the EL student is classified and an EL student.
When the EL student did not pass the WIDA screener.
When the EL student has below 5 in the reading domain of the ACCESS/WIDA assessments.
When the EL student does not have good scores in the English class.
What can determine if the student should take the WIDA or ACCESS test?
The school EL staff, NC current policies about ELLs, and the student's enrollment documentation.
The student's parent.
The content teacher and the student's parents.
The School principal and the guidance department.
Once the student's documentation and NC policies for EL students indicate that the new enrollee should take the WIDA and ACCESS test, can the student refuse testing?
No, he cannot. Both tests are NC state mandated.
Yes, if the parents want to refuse testing.
May be, if the classroom teacher thinks he is proficient.
Yes, if the student is passing all the content classes.
Should the guidance department and the school administration send the family to the Newcomers School when the new enrollee does not speak English?
Sending the family to the Newcomers school can be recommended but not imposed regardless the student's language proficiency.
The Newcomer school is just an option, not mandatory even if the student is a newcomers with no English Proficiency.
If the newcomer student does not speak English, the summer school is an option but parents can still enroll the newcomer in a regular school.
All of the answers are correct.
Can an EL student be failed?
An EL student cannot be failed by law.
An EL student must be passed with a 60 because of the language barrier.
The EL student should be failed if the content teacher modified instruction, documented intervention, but the student show no effort or participated in tutorials.
None of the previous answers are correct.
What is the procedure for content teachers, school principals, and school testing coordinators regarding the PNCF - Parent Notification Consent Form /documents?
They are required to report to sign the PNCF document to the designated location and during the assigned date to be in compliance with documentation procedures.
They do not need to sign these the PNCF documents.
They can sign the PNCF documents when they want.
They are not required to sign the PNCF documents.
What should content teachers, guidance and the school administration do when the school EL team sends the EL roster with all the Test Mods.
Read it immediately to identify if they will teach any of the EL students on the roster.
Read it immediately because the PNCF docs with the EL Test MODS and sent later when the schedule changes period is closed to families.
Read it immediately to inform that teachers many have flagged an EL student who is NOT included in this EL roster.
All of the answers are correct. They are good practices and team work.
