What is the process for enrolling students into the ESOL Program?
• At registration, all parents complete a Home Language Survey. • Surveys of parents who indicate that their child does not speak English are forwarded to the Office of World Languages and ESOL and the ESOL Teacher assigned to the building. • The Instructional Coordinator for World Languages and ESOL contacts the ESOL teacher for the school. The ESOL teacher for the school will contact the parents, arrange a conference, and administer a standardized language assessment test to determine English language proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. • The ESOL teacher informs the parents and the child’s teachers of the test results. • If the child qualifies for ESOL services, the parent is asked to sign a permission form, so that the student may be formally admitted into the ESOL Program and receive appropriate services. • The mission statement of Cecil County Public Schools instructs us to meet the needs of all students. To what services are English Language Learners (ELLs)
