The evaluation of language learners for possible special education services is a difficult process at best, with a long history of errors represented in both disproportionate qualification and anecdotal stories. The goal of this book is to help practitioners correctly identify language learners who truly have disabilities, whose disabilities are impacting their ability to access their education and who need specially designed instruction. The errors can be reduced with the following three-step process: 1. Analyzing the services and results within a building or district. 2. Utilizing data from a systematic pre-referral process, like the ELL Critical Data Process. 3. Providing the minimum data needed for each eligibility category. This book provides practitioners with tools and background information to follow this process. It also provides examples of both data and report write-ups. It is supported by the authors’ first book, The ELL Critical Data Process, also available at Amazon.com.

Evaluating Ell Students for the Possibility of Special Education Qualification

Education & Teaching

Gill, Steve

Nanayakkara, Ushani

Schools & Teaching

Createspace Independent Pub

This book, like the book on the ELL Critical Data Process, guides educators through a process to collect data, have critical conversations, and document their decisions in a matrix one data point at a time. The result is a pictorial image, the matrix, that represents the discussions of the team. This helps the team to determine whether to implement interventions, add more interventions, or make a special education referral. The discussions and work help the team to know the root cause of the presenting problem. Then the team designs a more targeted intervention or creates the ground work for better analysis of the special education referral. If a special education evaluation is started, this process helps create data that can lead to a more accurate special education evaluation.

Special Education Referral or Not: Using Data to Determine Between Interventions and Referral

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Our perspective is created through our acculturation and the knowledge we gain in our lives. What if our perspective is leading to poor results? Perspective is not reality and this disconnect can lead to difficulties in solving problems. This book uses stories and reflections to explore this problem and propose solutions. These stories and reflections were written by successful educators on topics close to their hearts. The stories let the reader see another way to look at an issue and can be used for personal growth or for professional development purposes. This book also includes an appendix that focuses on belief systems issues and an appendix that focuses on a new way to examine problems in skills development that children may face.

Processing Perspectives: Examining Beliefs, Biases, and Reality Through Stories

The evaluation of language learners for possible special education services is a difficult process at best, with a long history of errors represented in both disproportionate qualification and anecdotal stories. The goal of this book is to help practitioners correctly identify language learners who truly have disabilities, whose disabilities are impacting their ability to access their education and who need specially designed instruction. The errors can be reduced with the following five-step process: 1. Address belief system challenges that lead to disproportionality. 2. Analyze district data to better understand the problems. 3. Examine the challenges using our LE3AP process. 4. Use data from a systematic pre-referral process, the ELL Critical Data Process. 5. Examine the category with the most disproportionality, Specific Learning Disability, using the model we provide. This book provides practitioners with tools and background information to follow this process. It also provides examples of both data and report write-ups. It is supported by the authors’ first book, The ELL Critical Data Process.

Evaluating ELL Students for the Possibility of Special Education Qualification - 2nd Edition

Sample report for integrating ELL Critical Data Process factors into special education evaluation reports. This is a companion workbook for the ELL Critical Data Process book.

The ELL Special Education Evaluation Workbook: Companion and Training Document for the ELL Critical Data Process

Independently published

This book is a self-study or group study course for ELL teachers to learn more about special education. The hope of the authors is that this information will help ELL teachers in their day-to-day work with special education staff, leading to better results for our students. The focus of this course came from asking special education staff what they want ELL teachers to know, presenting this information to ELL teachers, and then asking them what they still wanted to know. The course follows the following format: • Provide information on a topic • Quiz for knowledge and reflection • Provide additional information • Then to reflect again on what has been learned and what still needs to be learned The book also covers three scenarios that follow a similar pattern.

ELL Teachers and Special Education: A Self-Study or Group Study

This book provides teams with the processes, materials and training guides to complete the ELL Critical Data Process for K-12 and preschool students including a data analysis process for districts to better understand their issues. Knowing the critical data to gather, the staff to involve, and having a process to follow can increase the likelihood of appropriate intervention. This resource kit contains resources and guiding documents to help understand whether targeted interventions or a special education referral is the appropriate action for your student.

The ELL Critical Data Process - 2nd Edition: Distinguishing between disability and language acquisition

The ELL Critical Data Process - 3rd Edition: Distinguishing between disability and language acquisition

Lessons Learned while Evaluating ELL Students for Potential Special Education Qualification

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