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[quote=Anonymous]I teach ESOL in another district and the way students are referred to the ESOL teacher for testing is from the home language survey when they register for school.  If they indicate that any other language is spoken at home other than English, they will be tested by an ESOL teacher.  Most of our ESOL students are born in the U.S. to Spanish speaking parents.  We do get some students from Latin America and the Dominican Republic too.  It is true what a PP wrote about the parents' educational levels.  The students that do the best academically are the ones whose parents are well educated in their home country.  The same is true for non-ESOL students.  Wasn't there a study done that showed that the #1 predictor of a student's success in school is the mother's educational level?  We do mostly pull-out in our school with the beginners and some push-in with more advanced students.  We pull students out of class for appr. 45 mins per day if they are beginners and 45 mins a few days a week if they are more advanced.  Our principal spreads out the ESOL students in the early grades so that there is a good mix of beginners and high level students in each class.  Once they get up to 4th grade and are departmentalized, the ESOL students are put in one class for scheduling purposes.[/quote]

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