This approach is often used for a class of students from varied native language backgrounds. Structured immersion teachers have a bilingual education or ESL credential and understand the students' first language. An assessment system that measures student performance in a way that requires students to demonstrate their understanding. Students construct meaning using multiple resources and data sources. The use of language in ways that reflect real-world purposes and function authentically related to students' life experiences.
Strategies rely on using language rather than learning about language.
A norm-referenced test used by many districts to assess student achievement. A norm-referenced test used by many districts to assess student achievement. The IDEA test is part of a curriculum package that is used in some bilingual programs. Additionally, the child is asked simple questions, required to repeat sentences, provide information about common aspects of his or her environment, recall and retell parts of a story, and discriminate paired phonemes. It provides six levels of proficiency from no English language ability to an ability level that would correspond with a fluent English speaker.