Facts about Saline area schools' ELL Program and students (2016)
- 125 English Language Learners in the district
- 5 ELL tutors
- 32 different languages spoken-Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, German, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slavonic, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese (Note: In 2 years, the district has added 4 languages!)
ELL teacher training
On October 4th, teachers of ELL students will gather at Liberty to learn about WIDA and techniques for teaching ELL Students. In December, we offered SIOP training #2 based on the feedback from October.
SIOP Training
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol is a teaching model specifically designed for ELL learners in the classroom. To learn more about SIOP, click the button below. This year, I organized a SIOP workshop. 4 Saline teachers attended along with over 50 other teachers from the surrounding community. We hope to offer more SIOP trainings in the future to assist teachers in learning more about ELL instruction.
Important Sites for ell families, teachers and students
ELL Data
- 16 Exited Students for the 2016-17 school year
- 108 ELL students took the WIDA Access Exam, compared to 86 students the year before.