Case Studies
Directions: review the following 6 case studies
and identify the program model that each case study represents.
Provide a rationale for your answers. You may submit your answers to
the facilitator using either the downloadable document or P. 41 in
your study guide.
- In this high school there is a separate science class for
intermediate level LEP students. The teacher is a science teacher who
has worked with an ESOL resource teacher to modify his curriculum so
that he is sure to cover the most important basics of science, such
as the scientific method, principles of experimentation, etc. He also
spends more time on language related skills such as how to state a
hypothesis, how to state scientific principles in the students' own
words, how to write a lab report, and common vocabulary words that
have specific scientific meanings: force, power, pressure.
This Program Model is ________________________
Rational:
- This is a high school English class and students receive
English credit. They are studying a novel by Pearl Buck entitled "The
Good Deed" and are identifying the plot, setting, characters, etc.
Each student reads part of the novel and then shares his/her learning
with the other students. All the students are limited English
proficient.
This Program Model is ________________________
Rational:
- This is a high school English class with 25 native English
speakers and a few high-intermediate LEP students. The teacher is
teaching the writing process. The LEP students work in small groups
with the English speaking students who often help them by showing
them what the teacher is looking for. The teacher also gives the LEP
students extra help with their outside assignments.
This Program Model is ________________________
Rational:
- This is a third grade class composed of children with many
different first languages, all of them learning English through the
grade-level curriculum. The teacher uses many hands on activities,
pays a lot of attention to the developing students' language and
literacy skills, often invites parents into the classroom, and
encourages parents to read to their children in their native
language.
This Program Model is ________________________
Rational:
- In this class, half of the subjects (in the morning) are taught
in Spanish and the other subjects (in the afternoon) are taught in
English. Half of the students speak Spanish and are learning English
as a second language and the other half speak English and are
learning Spanish as a second language. Parents of both student groups
regard this as a "gifted and talented" program which is preparing
their children for a multicultural world.
This Program Model is ________________________
Rational:
- In this fourth grade class, most of the students stay with the
teacher all day long, but a few students leave the class every day
for a portion of language arts time for instruction in ESOL. The
teacher realizes that this instruction is helping some of the
students, but she worries that the students have an interruption in
their learning environment and also are made to feel different.
This Program Model is ________________________
Rational:
