NM ELD STANDARDS Revisited

1. NM ELD STANDARDSRevisited Principals’ Meeting February 23, 2010

2. NM ELD STANDARDS • Provide the language infrastructure necessary to enable NM students to access the NM Content Standards, Benchmarks and Performance Standards by integrating language development, culture diversity and technology into the curriculum

3. NM ELD Standards • Are not intended to be an isolated document, but a flexible, living companion piece to the existing Content Standards, Benchmarks and Performance Standards • Are a necessary foundation to guide differentiated language instruction and assessment for pre-K-12th grade students

4. NM ELD Standards – a Review • Organization of the Standards • 2 Frameworks: • Formative & • Summative

5. Organization cont. • 5 English Language Proficiency Standards: • Social and Instructional Language • Language of Language Arts • Language of Math • Language of Science • Language of Social Studies

6. Organization cont. • 5 Grade Level Clusters • Pre-K- K • 1st – 2nd • 3rd – 5th • 6th – 8th • 9th – 12th

7. Organization cont. • 4 Language Domains • Listening • Speaking • Reading • Writing

8. Organization cont. • 5 Levels of English language proficiency • Entering • Emerging (Beginning) • Developing • Expanding • Bridging

9. Frameworks… • Formative • Geared toward guiding student learning and teacher instruction • Includes interactive supports • Allows for development of thematic units of instruction and long term projects

10. Why 2 Frameworks? • Summative • Identifies the range of model performance indicators that describe the outcomes of learning • Intended to provide students, teachers and test developers with ways for students to demonstrate their English Language Knowledge and skills

11. Next meeting… • 5 language proficiency standards