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28 Do you have any other information or comments related that you could share with us? * Stephanie is always readily available for the needs of the ESL students. She also offers us useful suggestions and strategies to make our lessons helpful for the ESL students. Excellent communication and a pleasure to work with each day. * Haven't worked with Simon Levy in a number of years but when I did it was fine. Not extremely involved (pull out). That is the reason for the IDK above. * Stephanie provides a welcoming and "safe" place for ESL kids, she goes above and beyond and the kids respond beautifully to her approach. She creates almost like an ESL "family" to support her kids social/emotional and behavioral and academic needs. She is also always willing to consult and collaborate. * Great instruction within the ESL department. * It is amazing. I think this would be especially helpful in terms of teaching writing. Absolutely! Our ESL department takes a whole child approach to learning... that includes what impacts students outside of school. * The ESL program is a great resource for me as an ESL classroom teacher. * The students seem to be comfortable having a place to go for ESL support. Especially how it relates to students who have speech/language disorders. Coordinating assessment and treatment with ESL needs is always a challenge. The presentations at staff meetings were useful. * With the increase of jobs in the area in the field of t3echnology, I believe our ELL population will only continue to grow. Therefore, ELL professional development should be mandatory for all educators in the district, as ELL students deserve the same quality instruction as our English-speaking students. * Having only 1 ESL teacher prohibits communication at team meetings and the ability to share pertinent resources to improve teaching strategies for these kids. * When there is support in the classroom for students who are new to the country and do not speak English. * It's been very helpful to have Marcia Ranieri attend our meetings for ELL kids
29 ESL Survey Data Analysis: Important Points • Elementary Student Survey: Students who participated in the elementary surveys overwhelmingly felt that they like ESL; their teacher helps him or her with reading and writing, listens to the students, and helps him or her to feel safe in the classroom. • Middle School Student Survey: Middle School students enjoy ESL, feel helped with reading and writing, safe in their ESL classroom and enjoy being able to eat lunch with their ESL classmates and teacher in the ESL classroom each day. • High School Survey: All of the students (11) who responded to the High School ESL survey enjoy being in the ESL class, and feel that the time they do spend in ESL helps them to be fully prepared for their other classes. In addition, students feel the ESL teacher advocates for him or her when there is a problem, by helping with their assignments to improve their grades, by helping with homework as needed, and answering sensitive questions when they are not sure who else to ask. Most students responded that they ask their ESL teacher questions about how to gain access to different clubs, activities, and places around Guilderland. Students also felt it was very helpful when the ESL teacher broke down words that they found troublesome or beyond their comprehension level. • Alumni Student Survey: Of the 22 Alumni students who were in ESL all responded positively about their participation in ESL and improvement in their language abilities. 16 of the 22 students are currently enrolled in a 4 year college and feel their experience in ESL helped prepared them to be successful in doing so. All of the 22 students feel comfortable saying they speak 2 languages fluently. • Parent Survey: The 41 Parents of ESL students feel that the ESL program helps their child feel welcome, improve their English skills and that their child’s language skills are better because of ESL. The ESL program has also helped parents learn how to help their child at home with reading, speaking, listening, writing and other language support. Most families have been here between 1-3 years in the Guilderland ESL program. 64.3% of parents would like there to be more workshops for them related to the needs of their children as English Language Learners. • Teacher/Administrator/Counselor/Staff Survey: 80% of staff feel that the ESL teacher is flexible and accommodating within their buildings district wide, 70% of staff feel that communication is effective between ESL teachers and their respective buildings, 61% of staff would like there to be more workshops related to ESL professional development, but only 42% of staff have attended workshops that have been offered in the past. 98% of staff feel that the ESL teacher in their building is receptive to suggestions and feedback, 95% of staff feel that the ESL teacher is available to communicate with parents and other teachers on an as needed basis, 99% of staff feel that the ESL teachers are advocates for their students. Only 88% of staff that responded has had experience working with ESL students during their career here at Guilderland. Lastly, 96% of staff feels that the ESL teacher is a valuable resource for professional knowledge related to ELLs.
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