TESOL: Standards Resources

This resource page from TESOL includes information about TESOL's PreK—12 English Language Proficiency Standards. Technology Standards, Professional Standards, and Standards for Adult Education, as well information about the Common Core State Standards and guidelines for developing EFL standards.

Assessment in ESL and Bilingual Education: A Hot Topic Paper

This site, provided by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL), examines various assessment techniques used with ESL and bilingual education students. Another feature of this site is its section on things to look for when selecting an assessment instrument for ESL and bilingual students.

Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center

The Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center provides training, technical assistance, and research to support states and school districts in the administration and implementation of Title III programs under the No Child Left Behind Act. Here you'll find direct links to materials NWREL has created for teachers, staff, and families; State guidance and regulations; and National clearinghouses for the most up-to-date, useful information to help you serve English Language Learners in your schools and communities.

Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Prereferral Interventions

This practitioner brief from The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems highlights four key elements of culturally- and linguistically-responsive prereferral intervention for culturally and linguistically diverse students: (1) Preventing School Underachievement and Failure, (2) Early Intervention for Struggling Learners, (3) Diagnostic/Prescriptive Teaching, and (4) Availability of General Education Problem-Solving Support Systems.

TESOL: Pre-K-12 English Language Proficiency Standards

The new PreK-12 English Language Proficiency Standards, an augmentation of the WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards, provides extensive matrices elucidating sample performance indicators, organized by the five standards (targeting language in social/intercultural interactions, language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies) and grade-level cluster. This publication is available for purchase from TESOL.

State English Language Proficiency Standards: New York

The New York State Education Department Office of Bilingual Education has developed these standards, which are meant to serve as the foundation for ESL curriculum, instruction, and assessment for all LEP/ELLs in New York State, grades Pre-K through 12. The NYS ESL learning standards also serve as the framework for the New York State ESL Achievement Test (NYSESLAT), which is administered annually to all LEP/ELLs in New York.
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