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NYS Board of Regents Presentation: Draft of ELA/ESL Standards. December 15, 2009. Overview of the Process. Thank You. Regent Saul Cohen Leadership Core Team 120 participants including: Researchers, the Regents Standards Steering Committee, the ELA/ESL Content Panel & ESL Workgroups
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NYS Board of Regents Presentation:Draft of ELA/ESL Standards December 15, 2009
Thank You • Regent Saul Cohen • Leadership Core Team • 120 participants including: Researchers, the Regents Standards Steering Committee, the ELA/ESL Content Panel & ESL Workgroups • NY Comprehensive Center – Larry Hirsch, Dir. • SED Staff and Managers • 1,000 educators & parents from the 6 public fora; over 80 Bilingual educators including the BETACS, feedback from professors from four higher education sectors
Documents to share • Standards Review Working Principles • Diagram of ELA/ESL Standards (Draft) • Draft of ELA/ESL Standards & Performance Indicators • Introduction & List of Contributors • Beginning Level English Language Learners • Curriculum Guidance Document • Chronological Summary, 12/2007-12/2009 • Common Core Standards crossed w/NYS Standards & Performance Indicators • Researchers Kamil and Strickland statements
Additional reports • 16 reports generated for analysis including: • Three (3) reviews by Dr. Catherine Snow (Harvard) & Dr. Dorothy Stickland (Rutgers)
Working Core Principles • 3 levels of Standards: • Content Standards (first draft completed) • Teacher Knowledge Standards • System Infrastructure Standards (Resources) • Single set of standards for ALL students • Infuse academic literacy & cultural literacy in all content areas • Real life applications • Measurable standards • Seamless Pre-K-16 • Infuse technology in all areas
Viewing & presenting • 5th & 6th areas • Added to Reading/Writing & Listening/Speaking • ‘Text’ encompasses far more than printed material. Text may also refer to speech, graphics, visual art, digital and video presentations, and other audio depictions. • The revised standards include extensive referencing to digital media. Students must achieve fluency and develop judicious practice and use with current media, and in anticipation of future technologies , be able to adapt quickly to new media as they develop.
Integration of ESL work with the English Language arts Standards
Integration of ESL work in the ELA STandards • Newly arrived or beginning ELL students require a unique set of performance indicators. Appropriate performance indicators have been outlined for newly arrived LEP/ELL students. • The proposed new ELA/ESL Standards and Performance Indicators can be used to describe the language progression of ELL students from intermediate through advanced proficiency levels.
EXCERPTS FROM DR. MICHAEL KAMIL “From the very beginning of the revision effort guidance has been provided by researchers from a variety of backgrounds. We have had the counsel of outstanding researchers: Nell Duke, Catherine Snow, Dorothy Strickland and Frank Vellutino. We have also had the counsel of a number of practitioners who were able to take the research guidance and translate it into practical applications in creating standards.” “While many of the earlier New York English Language Arts standards still apply and are as important as they have ever been, new developments from research need to be acknowledged in the revised and additional standards. …. by adding viewing and presenting to tap skills in processing and creating multimedia and electronic texts. Many of the other research findings have been incorporated by developing new performance indicators for existing standards. The standards have been written to reflect explicitly skills and abilities in pre-Kindergarten populations.”
Excerpts Continued… “It has been shown that reading ability in 8th grade is a strong predictor of academic success in mathematics and science courses. …. It suggests that we need to acknowledge the need to teach students how to read in different disciplines. We have begun to acknowledge this need in the current version of the New York ELA/ESL Standards by separating literature from literacy. …. These discipline-based literacy standards not only reflect the NAEP and PISA standards, but will focus the need for reading instruction to provide students with the abilities to become independent learners in disciplinary material.” “…. The New York ELA/ESL standards do reflect much of what is and will be in the final version of the Common Standards.” “….there is also a body of research on English Language Learners, special populations, and school reform efforts.….conclusions from this research have been incorporated in the New York ELA/ESL Standards revisions by way of the guiding principles. Coupled with the focus on student learning, these contextual concerns (Teacher Knowledge and System Infrastructure concerns) make the standards a world-class model.”
Excerpts from Dr. Dorothy Strickland • “The language arts – reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and presenting: > are a part of every subject area; involve both cognitive & social skills; help establish life-long habits of learning; involve a variety of ways of interacting with texts; involve the strategic & capable use of technology. By their very nature, standards reflect a shared vision of an educational community about what learners should know and be able to do.”
EXCERPTS CONTINUED • “By their very nature, standards reflect a shared vision of an educational community about what learners should know and be able to do.” • “This committee did a superb job of reaching out to various sectors of the educational community across the State.” • “The standards adhere to the key implications from the research outlined earlier.”
EXCERPTS CONTINUED • “As New York State moves toward more alternative paths for teacher preparation and certification, this document may serve as the single unifying component of course content and expectations.” • “These standards are rigorous and rightly so. They represent the reality of today’s world. Most important, they establish realistic and attainable goals for all of the children of New York.”
