Montgomery Public Schools

The philosophy of the Montgomery Public School District ESL is to develop articulate students who are:

• Efficient learners
• Effective communicators
• Competitive members of a global society

ESL Services

Our ESL Program is designed to help students attain their full social and academic potential within the American school culture. We are committed to developing our students’ communicative confidence and skills in the four main areas of language usage: listening, speaking, reading and writing. We support an optimal learning environment for all of our students as they become integral members of our community.

ESL students are identified by use of the home language survey.  If another language in addition to English is listed on the home language survey, the student is screened with the WAPT screener. Students that test into the ESL program are also assessed annually in the spring with the ACCESS test. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Web Resources for the Classroom

• Dave’s ESL Cafe
• English Learner.com
• TESOL
• Instructional Strategies appropriate for ELLs (Part 2)
• Instructional Strategies appropriate for ELLs (Part 1)
• Generating rubrics for Alternative Assessment
• Materials for Classroom Use
• Material for Classroom Use
• Culture and Instructional Process

Useful ESL Links

• OELA (Office of English Language Acquisition)
• NCELA (Nat. Clearinghouse for Eng. Lang. Acquisition)
• CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics)
• NABE (National Association for Bilingual Education)
• NEA (National Education Association)
• US Department of Education
• TESOL (Teachers of Eng. to Speakers of Other Lang.)
• CREDE
• SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol)
• ERIC (Education Resource Information Center)
• Pew Hispanic Center
• Consulado de Mexico en Atlanta

Consulates

• Mexico
• Korea
• Korea (In Korean)
• Brazil 
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• India
• Japan
• Nigeria
• Iran
• Venezuela
• Vietnam