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[quote=Anonymous]Did she say she had taught your child, or that she had pulled your child out?  In my school most ELL teaching, except for newcomers with almost no English, is with a push in model, in which the ELL teacher joins classrooms to intensify instruction, with the goal of supporting the English Language Learners, but groupings are flexible.  So for some kinds of activities they might divide the class into two heterogenous groups and have them rotate between two teachers (ELL and gen Ed) for two different lessons, or the they might both pull small groups for phonics divided by level and your kid happened to be in one of the groups the ELL teacher pulled.

The other possibility is that the form you filled out with information about home language led to him being assessed.  Those forms are screening forms.  Screening forms of all kinds are designed to catch a group that is too large because the idea is that you then refine the group during assessment.  In my district (and I think this is federal law), the form screens for kids who are born in other countries (even if it’s Canada) or who hear another language spoken in the household (even if its only between mom and Grandma).  Those kids are then assessed and released from ELL services.  So they have 1 or 2 individual interactions with the ELL teacher.  [/quote]

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