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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/ELL
Education Program?
Funding Sources
Tutors
Languages What Services Do We
Offer?
Need help with your limited English proficient
students?
Help is available to assist ELL 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 ELL 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 grades K through 12, whose home language is other
than English and whose parents want
additional academic support.
- Students in grades K through
12h whose ELPA Initial Screener or
spring ELPA score is below
proficient.
How can a student be included in the MISD
ELL/Bilingual
Education Program?
- When parents enroll
students, they must fill out a
Home Language Survey.
- If survey indicates that
student or parents speak a
language other than English at
home, school personnel must
administer the English
Language Proficiency Assessment
(ELPA) Initial Screener.
- If student's ELPA Intial
Screener is below proficient,
school personnel must refer
student to the MISD
ELL/Bilingual Education Program
by filing out a referral form.
- The program director will
then assign a bilingual
instructional
assistance/bilingual tutor to
work with the ELL student.
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.
- Pull-out, in-class or ELL sheltered Resource Center
services are provided options.
- 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.
MISD Resources
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