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Need help with your limited English proficient
students?
Bilingual/English
as a Second Language Education for English Language learners
Who are the Limited English Proficient Students
(LEP)/English Language Learners (ELL)?
Who is eligible?
How can a student be included in the MISD Bilingual/ESL
Education Program?
Funding Sources
Tutors
Languages What Services Do We
Offer?
Need help with your limited English proficient
students?
Help is available to assist LEP students to learn English as
quickly as possible so the students can benefit fully from
the mainstream English-only classroom.
Call for information about how to refer the LEP students
in your classroom.
(586) 228-3481
Bilingual/English
as a Second Language Education for English Language Learners.
The MISD Bilingual/ESL Education Program
provides bilingual instructional assistants
who help limited English proficient (LEP/ELL)
students to learn English and to achieve
competency in English language and reading
skills. This ensures them to have equal
access to education in a classroom where
only English is spoken.
Who are the Limited English Proficient Students
(LEP)/ English Language Learners (ELL)?
LEP/ELL students are those who either:
- Come from a home where a language other than English is
spoken.
- Speaks a language other than English as their primary
means of communicating.
- Or are learning English but have sufficient difficulty
in understanding, speaking, reading, or writing English as
to deny the students the opportunity to learn
successfully in an English only classroom.
Who is Eligible?
- Students in grade K through 2nd
grade, whose home language is other
than English and whose parents want
additional academic support.
- Students in grades 3rd through
12th whose home language is other
than English and who score below the
40th%ile on a standardized English
reading test. (MDE Rule 388.705)
How can a student be included in the MISD Bilingual/ESL
Education Program?
When a
student who speaks a language other than
English in the home enrolls in one of the
participating school districts, the district
personnel administer a standardized reading
test to determine eligibility. Then the
principal refers the students to the MISD
Bilingual/ESL Office. The program then
assigns a bilingual instructional assistant
(BIA) to further assess the student's
English proficiency using a state mandated
assessment (ELPA), language
assessment in English. Then the BIA
provides the needed assistance.
Funding Sources:
- MDE Section 41 funds
- Participating Macomb County LEAs
- Title III
- MISD
Tutors
- The MISD Bilingual/ESL Program has
approximately 35-40 Bilingual/ESL tutors
who speak over thirty-four (34) of the
different languages spoken in the homes
of students in Macomb County.
- Educational background: BA, BS, MA.
Some have their degrees from their
native country. Some have degrees
from both their native country and the
United States. The rest have
degrees only from the United States.
- Each tutor has approximately 20-45
students, who are non, limited and
advance English
proficient.
- Each tutor travels to approximately
3-10 different schools and districts per
day.
Languages
- Languages: Albanian,
Arabic/Chaldean/Syrian, Armanian,
Assyrian, Bengali,
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian,
Bulgarian, Cambodian,
Cantonese/Mandarin, Farsi, Filipino/Tagalog,
French, German, Greek, Gujarati,
Hindi, Hmong,
Hungarian/Kazak, Indonesian,
Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, Korean,
Laotian, Lithuanian, Macedonian,
Malayalam, Pashto, Pohnpeian,
Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi,
Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Slovak,
Spanish, Thai, Twi (African),
Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese. (Bolded
languages are the 5 major
languages in Macomb).
What Services Do We Offer?
- Direct service tutoring assistance to the LEP/ELL students in
basic English skills and help in reading comprehension of
core content areas by a bilingual instructional assistant
who comes to the local school and can work in the
student's classroom.
- Training of parents and staff of participating districts
in the areas of bilingual/ESL and multicultural education.
- Assisting local school districts in implementation of
instructional programs designed to enhance cultural
awareness.
- Interpreting services for parents in parent teacher
conferences, parent-child study meetings, and special
education related matters for LEP/ELL students.
- Sharing multicultural materials and activities.
- Translation of school documents.
- Interpreting legislative rules and regulations.
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