In partnership with general education all students will be provided the opportunity to develop the basic skills needed to survive in our changing world. Teamwork and collaboration and essential components while providing a continuum of services in Least Restrictive Environment. We then ask our trained teachers to train other staff members. While most ESL students in the Goshen schools speak Spanish as their primary language, our program also includes children whose first languages are Japanese, Khmer, Marshallese, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, French, German and Cantonese. Our goal is to provide these students with the language skills they need to be successful in grade-level classrooms in as short a period as possible.
Research shows that most children learn social English in one to three years.
ESL teachers and assistants provide services in all six elementaries, the middle school and the high school. The Student Services Program in Goshen Community Schools includes full time counselors in all elementary schools, three at the middle school and four at the high school. It also includes a Student Assistance Coordinator, four social workers, and four nurses. Goshen has at least two trained teachers in all elementary schools in Reading Recovery. The elementary schools also have a teacher trained in Early Literacy which helps K-2 teachers teach reading to students at all reading levels.