Math is sometimes the initial "language" that teachers and ESL students 
can connect through.  I would think that all the standards would be 
appropriate to use with ESL students.  In our program, with ESL and ABE 
students we talk with the students to find some of the skills that they 
do very well with before they even come to our program (listen, 
observe) which seems to give them some internal connection to what 
skill standarsa are as well as a sense of being accomplished at some 
important things already.  That helps give purpose and focus to the 
work we do with them on the communications skills that they are 
lacking.  The really nice thing about EFF has been how the skill 
standards, role maps, and common activities are so intertwined that 
they allow our teachers and students to blend and extend the learning 
and instruction.  Skills learned and mastered are transferrable and 
malleable to other purposes.

Bonnie Fortini, Machias, Maine

Quoting Lisa Mullins <lmullins89 at yahoo.com>:


> I believe that most ESL instructors will agree that

> Use Math to Solve Problems and Communicate is a very

> important Standard.  Although most ESL students can

> compute or calculate, they do not have the vocabulary

> to read, comprehend, and use numbers knowledge to

> solve problems or communicate.  Therefore it is

> important to their survival to teach them math, math

> vocabulary, and how to communicate about math.

> Lisa Mullins

> Hawkins County AE

> Rogersville, TN

>

> --- "Kohring, Aaron M" <akohring at utk.edu> wrote:

>

>> After speaking more with the ESL instructor who

>> posted the questions

>> below, I have some additional details.  She has

>> taught in ABE classroom

>> settings for 6 years, but now is part-time ABE and

>> part-time ESL. She

>> noted that reporting demands for her program often

>> lead to a

>> concentration on only those Standards that are

>> listed on the NRS and

>> included in standardized tests.  So, are there other

>> Standards outside

>> the ones she mentions below (speaking, listening,

>> reading, writing) that

>> are important for ESL students to know and use?

>>

>> Aaron

>>

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: contentstandards-bounces at nifl.gov

>> [mailto:contentstandards-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf

>> Of Kohring, Aaron M

>> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:58 PM

>> To: contentstandards at nifl.gov

>> Subject: [ContentStandards 204] Standards and skills

>> for ESL instruction

>>

>> Greetings all,

>>

>> I have some questions from a new ESL instructor who

>> is preparing lesson

>> plans for the coming year and is curious about the

>> topic of

>> 'Standards-based Instruction'.

>> Aaron

>>

>> ***********************************

>>

>> "My students' intake forms have a stated goal of

>> learning to speak

>> better English so I thought I should concentrate my

>> instruction on the

>> standards- speaking and listening.  I know that

>> reading and writing in

>> English are also important skills so I plan to teach

>> those standards

>> also.  Are there other standards or skills that I

>> should be teaching?

>> What challenges do you face in teaching these other

>> skills?  Are there

>> resources available that focus on these skill

>> areas?"

>>

>> ************************************

>>

>>

>>

>> Aaron Kohring

>> Coordinator, LINCS Literacy & Learning Disabilities

>> Special Collection

>> (http://ldlink.coe.utk.edu/)

>> Moderator, National Institute for Literacy's Content

>> Standards

>> Discussion List

>>

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>> Coordinator, Equipped for the Future Websites

>> (http://eff.cls.utk.edu/)

>>

>> Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee

>> EFF Center for

>> Training and Technical Assistance

>> Phone:(865) 974-4109 main

>>       (865) 974-4258 direct

>> Fax:  (865) 974-3857

>> e-mail: akohring at utk.edu

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