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Congregated School Model
The number of students in local schools is not sufficient to sustain a full-service program for English language learners; learners are congregated in a magnet school, which serves students from the surrounding geographical area.
The school contains an ESL and ELD department with qualified ESL and ELD teachers.
The school offers a range of ESL and ELD credit courses.
The school offers a range of other credit courses adapted to the needs of English language learners (e.g., geography, history, science, Civics, Career Studies).
Resource Support Model
The number of students within a particular school board, geographical area, or individual school is not sufficient to sustain ESL or ELD credit courses.
The school provides a qualified ESL and ELD teacher to offer regularly scheduled individual assistance on a resource basis.
ESL and ELD professional resource support (provided by a qualified ESL and ELD teacher, consultant, coordinator) is available to classroom teachers.
Types of Support
Depending on the needs of individual students, one or more of the following types of support may be provided.
Intensive Support
Intensive support is suitable for English language learners who are in the early stages of learning English and/or who have had limited education. The timetable of each of these students includes an ESL or ELD course, supplemented, where numbers permit, with special sections of other subjects adapted to meet the needs of English language learners. In addition, these students must be integrated into at least one mainstream course to provide balance in the program and opportunities for interaction with English-speaking peers.
Students who arrive with little or no previous schooling need extra support to acquire basic literacy skills and academic concepts. In addition to ELD support, first-language assistance may also be provided, where resources are available, by teachers, trained and supervised tutors, or volunteers. In such situations, skills and knowledge acquired through the first language can be transferred into English and can help promote the acquisition of English.
Partial Support
Partial support is suitable for English language learners who have acquired some basic skills in using English and a foundation level of literacy. Such students take ESL or ELD courses at the appropriate level and, at the same time, take an increasing number of mainstream courses in other compulsory or optional subjects, at the appropriate grade levels that best suit their language needs and educational and career goals.
THE PROGRAM IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH LITERACY DEVELOPMENT
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