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Those programs do exist, but they don't hire for those
types of positions. Those are veteran teachers whose
assignments were a carry over from when ESL was a
foreign language program, or it's teachers that couldn't
handle a classroom anymore and are moved into support
roles. The focus is hiring bilingual teachers for
elementary ESL instruction. Either the district has enough
to do immersion or they use shifting inclusion and
resource. Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, they can
be selective, they get the bulk of applicants that have
exactly what they want and need.

An L1 other than Spanish, that's like looking at a drop of
water in the ocean, this is Texas. They would assign the
student to the regular elementary classroom and provide
them ESL support, because in Houston, Dallas, Austin,
and San Antonio they can find a para or a sub who could
service the student in the students L1, and if they
couldn't they would assign a district or campus ESL
teacher to inclusion in PEIMS and just muddle through it.
If it's not Spanish it's not a significant population of
students, one maybe two. That way the district can claim
they are legally providing services they are required to
even if it doesn't mean much.

Most elementary schools in Texas don't have the
resources, space, or staff to do ESL resource or inclusion,
there are so many students it's not cost effective. You
have to understand that in some campuses and districts
half or more of the the student population is eligible for
ESL services. There are campuses that will exit out
students to monitoring without services, because there
isn't another classroom to put an ESL teacher. There are
schools (middle and high schools) with such high ESL
populations that teachers essentially co-teach and
instead of a teacher having a classroom there is a work
room with the special education and language support
teachers where they have a desk and they move between
classrooms all day.

On 10/23/16, Delaware Duke wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Are you saying there are no pure ESL programs at the
> elementary level, as its all being lumped together with
> Bilingual programs? What about ELLs whose L1 isn't
Spanish?
> In what classroom do they get placed?
>

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