MCPS elementary school curriculum

[Anonymous]

ESOL is now referred to as EML - Emergent Multilingual Learners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ESOL is now referred to as EML - Emergent Multilingual Learners.

Does that mean they teach children how to speak languages other than English?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ESOL is now referred to as EML - Emergent Multilingual Learners.

Does that mean they teach children how to speak languages other than English?

No - it's just the new PC term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ESOL is now referred to as EML - Emergent Multilingual Learners.

Does that mean they teach children how to speak languages other than English?

No - it's just the new PC term.

Ok, so to review, they are teaching kids to speak English, not providing a special foreign language class that other kids can't access.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ESOL is now referred to as EML - Emergent Multilingual Learners.

No, ELD is the term: English Language Development

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ESOL is now referred to as EML - Emergent Multilingual Learners.

Does that mean they teach children how to speak languages other than English?

No - it's just the new PC term.

You're saying MCPS is "woke"?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ESOL is now referred to as EML - Emergent Multilingual Learners.

No, ELD is the term: English Language Development

ELD is the term for the program and teachers. EML is the term for the students receiving those services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ESOL is now referred to as EML - Emergent Multilingual Learners.

No, ELD is the term: English Language Development

ELD is the term for the program and teachers. EML is the term for the students receiving those services.

One of the highlights of any staff meeting is watching admin try and remember the new PC terms and inadvertently always fumbling to keep it all straight.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I never see my kid needs to do homework at home, and there's never a book/workbook sent home. I know she is a first grader, but when is kid required to do homework at home or if there are any books be sent home to review for exams?

Do elementary school teach social study, science, geography, foreign language or history at later grades? I am confused with the curriculum in mcps. I am not from here.

Kids who speak English as their first language do not get any foreign language instruction in ES in MCPS. The only exception is if your kids gets accepted into a Language Immersion program, which has very limited seats.

Kids who are ESOL do get a bilingual education.

What are you talking about? MCPS provides English instruction for all kids. ESOL is not designed to teach Spanish or any other language besides English. That is why it is called ENGLISH as a second language. These kids are bilingual because they learned their native language at home from their families. You are just angry that "poor" kids can have something your child doesn't.

Wow. So racist. All ESOL kids are NOT poor. This is a diverse area. Plenty of kids who come here speaking another language who are not poor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ESOL is now referred to as EML - Emergent Multilingual Learners.

Does that mean they teach children how to speak languages other than English?

Yes. They teach the kids in Spanish AND in English.

Our MS teachers give out assignments in both languages. Not all the assignments, but many of them are translated into Spanish. Hence, multilingual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP— why don’t you ask your child’s teachers these questions? It’s November. By this point you should know who they are? They can answer all your questions.

Teachers aren’t really knowledgeable about the overall curriculum. They just know about the grade they teach. Our ES teachers are not a good resource for curriculum information.

Also, in MCPS, the curriculum changes often. Impossible for elementary school teachers to know everything about every subject.

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Anonymous wrote:Science is not taught till 4th or 5th grade. It was the last class of the day and lasted about 20 minutes. Just enough time to take attendance and get ready for dismissal. It was the first class to be cut if some other activity was going on.

Science is terrible in elementary school in MCPS. It’s lumped in with Social Studies so they alternate. And MCPS got rid of so many of the fun Science activities (butterflies, etc).

The MS teachers at our MS lament the fact that MCPS science is just so bad in ES.

My daughter’s MS science teacher wasn’t too complimentary about the MS curriculum, either.

True. Science education in MCPS is quite poor. ES is almost non-existent, unless you get a teacher who is passionate about it and willing to add it in when he/she can. MS is also pretty bad.

Too bad, because science can be a lot of fun! Especially in ES. But, MCPS does like to suck the fun out of school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I never see my kid needs to do homework at home, and there's never a book/workbook sent home. I know she is a first grader, but when is kid required to do homework at home or if there are any books be sent home to review for exams?

Do elementary school teach social study, science, geography, foreign language or history at later grades? I am confused with the curriculum in mcps. I am not from here.

Kids who speak English as their first language do not get any foreign language instruction in ES in MCPS. The only exception is if your kids gets accepted into a Language Immersion program, which has very limited seats.

Kids who are ESOL do get a bilingual education.

No they don't. They are instructed in English only unless enrolled in a bilingual program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never see my kid needs to do homework at home, and there's never a book/workbook sent home. I know she is a first grader, but when is kid required to do homework at home or if there are any books be sent home to review for exams?

Do elementary school teach social study, science, geography, foreign language or history at later grades? I am confused with the curriculum in mcps. I am not from here.

Kids who speak English as their first language do not get any foreign language instruction in ES in MCPS. The only exception is if your kids gets accepted into a Language Immersion program, which has very limited seats.

Kids who are ESOL do get a bilingual education.

What are you talking about? MCPS provides English instruction for all kids. ESOL is not designed to teach Spanish or any other language besides English. That is why it is called ENGLISH as a second language. These kids are bilingual because they learned their native language at home from their families. You are just angry that "poor" kids can have something your child doesn't.

Wow. So racist. All ESOL kids are NOT poor. This is a diverse area. Plenty of kids who come here speaking another language who are not poor.

That is why I'm put quotes around the word "poor". Anyone pissed about ESOL services has a particular idea of who the ESOL students are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ESOL is now referred to as EML - Emergent Multilingual Learners.

Does that mean they teach children how to speak languages other than English?

Yes. They teach the kids in Spanish AND in English.

Our MS teachers give out assignments in both languages. Not all the assignments, but many of them are translated into Spanish. Hence, multilingual.

Yes but they did not teach the students Spanish, the students came in with that knowledge, that asset. It came from their families. MCPS didn't teach it. You just HATE that that they have something you want.