Adriana Ochoa, EL Coordinator
Phone: 618-346-6301
Yesenia Malagon, EL Secretary
Phone: 618-346-6301 #3
The mission of the English Learners’ program in the Collinsville Unit 10 School District is to embrace, respect, and build upon the unique cultural-linguistic characteristics that students and families bring to the learning community for the benefit of all aspects of American life and to be successful in the global community.
Collinsville Unit 10 School District provides Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE), Transitional Programs of Instruction (TPI), Dual Language (one-way), and ESL services to eligible students within the district. The program employs full-time certified professionals as teachers and tutors to work with students in grades Pre-K-12. In addition, full time translators are employed to assist our bilingual families. Any family requiring the assistance of a translator to communicate with Unit 10 staff, may contact their school office.
The Transitional Bilingual Education program is for students to develop pride in their home language while learning all aspects of language in both Spanish and English and have an understanding of the promise of career success that biliteracy creates.
The Transitional Program of Instruction in District 10 serves English Learners whose home language is one other than English. The mission of this program is to develop linguistic and academic achievement through instruction that integrates both content and language learning, and by embracing, respecting, and building upon our students’ rich language and cultural backgrounds. The program provides support to help students succeed in academic subjects and further develop their English language proficiency.
The ESL (English as a Second Language) Program is designed to teach English to non-native English speakers. ESL focuses on language skills, including speaking, listening, reading, and writing, to help individuals communicate effectively in English-speaking environments.
The One-Way Dual Language Program is a Spanish dual language program that includes instruction in both English and Spanish to help scholars excel academically while becoming bilingual, biliterate and bicultural. A one-way program is intended for native Spanish speakers to continue developing and building on their native languages while learning English.
The following screeners: Pre-IPT (PK), WIDA Screener for Kindergarten, or the WIDA Screener for grades 1st-12th, are used to determine student eligibility in the program. These tests assess English proficiency in the four domains: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Parents of eligible students are notified of program enrollment annually.
All K-12 students enrolled in the program, as well as those who have not previously scored proficient, are required to take the state administered ACCESS test annually. ACCESS for ELLs is a standards-based, criterion-referenced English language proficiency test designed to measure English language learners’ social and academic proficiency in English. It assesses social and instructional English as well as the language associated with language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies within the school context across the four language domains. The results give parents, teachers and schools one measure of student learning and school performance. PARCC is administered to all English Language Learners in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and high school students in English III and Algebra II. Testing accommodations are available to all students who take these exams as appropriate.
IAR (Illinois Assessment of Readiness) is administered to all English Language Learners in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and high school students in English III and Algebra II. Testing accommodations are available to all students who take these assessments as appropriate.
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