!Special!

Inspired by our guidance counselor's way of keeping track issues and actions during CSTs and my own personal goal to provide in-class support notes to classroom teachers as feedback, in January I decided to use the CST Child Conference form format to record the notes I took when I met with each teacher about ESL students. The ESL Conference forms are intended for ESL use. At the end of the year, I will put them in the students' ESL folder for future reference. The ESL Conference forms feature data about students' strengths; MAP, DRA, and STAR scores; classroom teacher comments; issues; actions; and follow-up actions by me in WL ESL classes/pull-outs/push-ins.

I have to take this time to advocate for a few resources that I feel are invaluable to the ESL program.


 * Access to the LES bookroom--It is upon the wings of that book room that Intensive ESL students reading soars
 * Reading A-Z--Fills in the gaps in reading and research
 * BrainPOP videos--For our viewing pleasure and edification
 * Student laptops--We are all beginners in something related to things tech. We learn to learn from each other--all the time.
 * Who Was biography series--As fate would have it, I discovered the REST of the series a week before G4 began the biography unit. **Any chance I can order more books from Amazon during 2012-2013? About $150.**..