Iredell Statesville Schools English as a Second Language Department Fall 2010 WIDA Standards

What is WIDA? WIDA stands for World-Class Instructional Design and Consortium’s Assessment System. WIDA is a resource guide for teachers and administrators.

What is WIDA? It is designed to address the needs of English Language Learners (ELLs) to become proficient in social, instructional and academic English Language. WIDA developed ACCESS ( K-12 LEP annual test) for ELLs based on its English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards.

Members of the WIDA consortium Alabama, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin

About WIDA The Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the home of the WIDA consortium. WIDA partners with the Center of Applied Linguistics, MetriTech, Inc., and World Learning.

WIDA ELP Standards Frameworks SummativeFormative

Summative Framework Provides teachers, students, and test developers with tools to help ELLs to demonstrate their progress with the English language.

Formative Framework Guides teachers and students in aspects of language instruction and learning. This framework is less measurable than a test and less noticeable, but is important to teaching and language acquisition.

Elements of the Frameworks ELP StandardsGrade Level ClustersLanguage Domains Language Proficiency Levels

WIDA ELP Standards Standard 1: Social and Instructional LanguageStandard 2: The Language of Language ArtsStandard 3: The Language of MathematicsStandard 4: The Language of ScienceStandard 5: The Language of Social Studies

WIDA ELP Standards The standards focus on the language needed by the students to succeed in school. These standards are different from a regular NCSCOS.

Grade Level Clusters The standards are divided in 5 clusters: PreK-K, 1- 2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Language Domains Speaking ReadingWriting Listening

Model Performance Indicators (MPIs) Single cells within the standards’ matrices that describe specific levels of English language proficiency. Components of an MPI include: language function, example topic, and support.

Model Performance Indicators Components Indicates how language will be used to communicate in a specific task. Language Function Relates the context for language interaction within school. Example Topic Provides a necessary avenue for ELLs to access meaning. Support

Model Performance Indicators Components (Science 6 th Grade) Analyze, identify, explain, distinguish, give examples, describe, predict, compare. Language Function Metric system, seismic waves, lava, magma, types of volcanoes, epicenter. Example Topic Flash cards, scale models, videos, internet research, posters, pictures, graphic organizers. Support

Model Performance Indicators (MPIs) Language Function Sequence Example Topic the events in a story Support using picture cards and oral descriptions

Model Performance Indicators (MPIs) Science Language Function Identify Example Topic atomic number, atomic mass, metals, and non- metals Support using flashcards from the periodic table.

Model Performance Indicators (MPIs) Math Language Function Recognize and match Example Topic shapes and formulas Support using handmade geometric models.

The Strands of MPIs… Thematically connected Scaffolded Developmentally appropriate Academically rigorous

Performance Definitions Frame the ELP standards and shape the six levels of English language proficiency Linguistic Complexity Vocabulary Usage Language Control

… provide a collaborative tool for planning. … can be shared with students and their families. … provide indicators in each language domain. … facilitate teachers’ examinations of the language domains. The CAN DO descriptors…

Performance Definitions (Language Proficiency Levels) 6. Reaching 5. Bridging4. Expanding3. Developing2. Beginning1. Entering

CAN DO Descriptors (Example)

Strands of MPIs ELP Standards CAN DO Descriptors Performance Definitions Relationship Among WIDA Components

Created to score the productive tasks in ACCESS and W-APT Used by teachers on a formative basis Used in conjunction with the Performance Definitions and CAN DO Descriptors May be incorporated into the classroom assessment Speaking and Writing Rubrics for Classroom Assessment

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