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Newcomer English Curriculum: A Path to Empower Multilingual Learners

Transform your Classroom with Smartclass – Where every learner thrives and can unlock their true potential!

SmartClass brings an interactive, engaging, and student-centered approach to English language acquisition. The digital SmartClass Newcomer English Curriculum /ML Curriculum adapts seamlessly to any teaching style, putting students at the heart of their learning experience and improving all four language domains.

Transform English language learning by combining a powerful platform with engaging content, offering students more opportunities to practice, speak, and master fluency.

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The SmartClass Curriculum Overview

SmartClass hones in on the unique linguistic needs of newcomers and multilingual learners at all proficiency levels.

With over 3,000 engaging activities spanning from beginner to advanced, you’ll have all the tools you need to ignite inspiration and drive learning.

Designed to enhance fluency through interactive lessons and real-world speaking practice, our Newcomer English curriculum can be used for in-person, hybrid, or fully online classes. SmartClass enables students to practice anytime, anywhere and teachers gain robust tools to personalize learning, create custom activities, and track progress with ease.

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Aligned with WIDA Standards:

Our curriculum empowers ML teachers to align instruction with WIDA guidelines, supporting multilingual learners as they progress through the WIDA English Lan-guage. Proficiency Levels, Language Expectations, and Key Language Uses to develop essential lan-guage skills effectively.
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Flexibility:

Download our full English curriculum or filter and select specific activities to enrich your daily lessons.
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Track and Measure Growth:

Teachers can easily monitor student performance and growth over time.
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Real-Time Feedback:

Auto-grading and immediate feedback help students reflect and improve faster.
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Structured Levels:

Five complete proficiency levels, aligned to WIDA, ensure a smooth progression from foundational receptive and productive skills to advanced receptive and productive skills.
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Diverse Tasks:

Conversation practice, authentic videos, grammar reviews, and 20 different activity options elevate the student learning experience. 

Student-Centered Learning:

Redo activities enable students to practice at their own pace and take ownership of their learning.
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Teacher Input:

Teachers can customize existing activities or create their own, digitizing and organizing original instructional content across all four language domains to meet specific learning needs.
For Administrators:
  1. Standard-aligned content for beginner to advanced levels. 
  2. Interactive activities that improve language proficiency in all language learning domains.
  3. Offers auto-grading to streamline evaluation.
  4. Tools to monitor student progress, provide feedback, and assess learning outcomes.
  5. Availability of teacher training, onboarding support, and customer service.
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For Educators:
  1. Access to over 3,000 ready-made activities that cover all four language domains. 
  2. Provides flexibility—use activities as they are, customize them, or create your own to fit your needs.
  3. Saves time and offers valuable feedback with auto-graded activities.
  4. Increases student engagement with real-life application topics.
  5. Offers interactive tools to enhance language acquisition.
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For Students:
  1. Makes learning dynamic with 20 interactive templates to keep students engaged.
  2. Covers real-life topics for practical language use.
  3. Empowers students to take ownership of their learning through immediate feedback and redo options.
  4. Builds confidence with AI speaking tools and practice in conversation and comprehension.
  5. Simple, intuitive platform that’s easy to navigate.
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Discover how our Newcomer English curriculum engages students in meaningful learning! Watch this short video to see our interactive lessons and dynamic activities in action.

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Placement Test and Resources

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Placement Test
Our SmartClass Placement Test evaluates student proficiency and places them into their respective SmartClass level, ensuring effective and personalized learning from day one.
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Teacher Resources
Teacher Handbooks: Easy-to-follow guides for planning and implementing lessons that meet diverse student needs.
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Student Resources
Student Resource Books: A printed resource book to aide practice and support students as they complete their digital activities.

Support and Training for Teachers

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Pedagogical Mentoring, SEI Coaching & Training

Transitioning to a new curriculum can be daunting, but SmartClass is here to support you! Our mentoring and training sessions equip you with strategies to effectively implement the program and elevate your teaching.

An All-in-One Solution for English Language Teaching

A Solution Built for Today’s Schools

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SmartClass is more than just a digital platform—it's a comprehensive solution for 21st-century education. To take your students' learning experience even further, consider adding our language lab option.
In-School Interactive Language Lab

In-School Interactive Language Lab

The SmartClass Language Lab provides a dedicated space for students to immerse themselves in language learning.

With state-of-the-art tools for listening, speaking, and assessment, the language lab creates an interactive environment where students can practice conversation, focus on comprehension, and refine their pronunciation and fluency in a supportive, real-time setting.

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Access to a Flexible Teaching Platform

Accessible through the web from anywhere, the SmartClass Teaching Platform allows teachers to easily create and assign activities for any language. Teachers can monitor student progress, provide targeted feedback, and tailor lessons to meet individual needs, ensuring that each student receives the support necessary to master language acquisition at their own pace.

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The SmartClass Blog

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 Aug 02, 2024

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 Sep 10, 2024

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 May 30, 2024

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Customer Success Stories

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Flexible and Adaptable ELL Curriculum

For many ESL teachers, it is hard to have students of different backgrounds, levels, native languages, and cultures mixed together within one class. The SmartClass English curriculum offers teachers the flexibility to address each student’s needs while also allowing teachers to create activities around the academic language of other subject areas.
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Complete ELL Curriculum:

• Everything housed in the SmartClass Teaching Platform.

• Over 3000 digital activities available for teachers.

• Allows teachers to create their own activities.

Supplementing with Academic Language Activities:

• Gabriela Flatt, English Language Specialist, created a unique "Master Curriculum" for EFL teachers.
 
• She was able to select the activities she wanted from the English curriculum, organize them in folders within the platform, and create hundreds of supplemental activities.
 
• Math, Science, Social Studies, and History to not only support students in their English-language-learning journey but all throughout their Middle and High School careers.

SmartClass at Great Hearts:

• Positive feedback from educators on adaptability of lessons.

• SmartClass's flexibility addresses diverse student needs.

• The program grew from 20 to 150 students within a few weeks! 

Case Study

Empowering ELL Students at Holy Family School System

Holy Family School System adopted SmartClass to support its growing population of English Language Learners (ELLs), including Ukrainian refugees and Chinese exchange students. With diverse proficiency levels, the school needed a flexible and comprehensive digital curriculum. SmartClass provided customizable learning, accurate placement testing, and strong teacher support, allowing educators to effectively integrate students. Since implementation, 20 students have enrolled, and teachers have praised the platform’s adaptability. Looking ahead, the school plans to expand SmartClass to accommodate more ELLs, ensuring every student receives the language support they need to succeed.
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Empowering ELL Students at Holy Family School System

Addressing a Growing Need:

  • Influx of Ukrainian refugees and Chinese exchange students created diverse language learning needs.
  • Students ranged from absolute beginners to those with a fifth-grade reading level.
  • School needed a flexible, scalable solution to integrate students effectively.

Why SmartClass Was the Right Fit:

  • Customizable Learning: Teachers can tailor activities to individual student needs.
  • Accurate Placement Testing: Helps assess proficiency levels for appropriate class placement.
  • Teacher & Student Support: Provides resource books and training to enhance instruction.

Impact & Future Plans:

  • Immediate Success: 20 students enrolled, with positive teacher feedback.
  • Flexible & Scalable: Adaptable lessons accommodate new arrivals throughout the year.
  • Long-Term Vision: Plans to expand SmartClass use as the ELL population grows.
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Arkansas City Public Schools' Success with SmartClass

Arkansas City Public Schools implemented SmartClass to support its growing population of English Language Learners (ELLs) across middle and high schools. With an increasing number of ESOL students and mid-year transfers, the district needed a flexible and comprehensive curriculum. SmartClass provided placement testing, an extensive resource library, and seamless integration across grade levels. The program’s success was evident as students completed over 1,000 activities in a short period, fostering engagement and measurable progress. Moving forward, the district aims to expand SmartClass, making it a key component of its strategy to empower multilingual learners.
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Arkansas City Public Schools' Success with SmartClass

Addressing a Growing ELL Population:

  • The high school served 41 ESOL students, with projections rising to 60-75.
  • Frequent mid-year student transfers required a flexible curriculum.
  • Needed a solution to support both middle and high school ELL students.

Why SmartClass Was the Right Choice:

  • Placement Testing: Helps assess student proficiency and assign appropriate class levels.
  • Extensive Resource Library: Over 3,000 structured activities tailored for English learners.
  • Seamless Grade-Level Support: Enables continuity across middle and high school.

Implementation & Impact:

  • Quick Adoption: 100 student licenses purchased, with teacher training provided.
  • High Engagement: Students completed over 1,000 activities, demonstrating enthusiasm and progress.
  • Long-Term Vision: Plans to expand SmartClass usage to enhance academic language skills further.

FAQs

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How does this platform integrate with our existing curriculum standards and assessments, specifically for English Language Learners?

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SmartClass's Let's Talk! English curriculum is structured to comply with internationally accepted CEFR language proficiency levels (A1-C2) and is aligned with WIDA &  standards. The platform supports customization, allowing teachers to easily add their own activities. This flexibility enables alignment with specific curriculum goals and the integration of diverse materials.    

How does SmartClass for Newcomers help improve student speaking skills?

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The digital Newcomer English curriculum emphasizes speaking activities, with features like AI-powered conversations and pronunciation practice, and offers many opportunities for individual speaking practice.

How does SmartClass help teachers?

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It helps teachers save time with auto-graded activities, provides tools to personalize learning, and offers data-driven insights to monitor student progress. SmartClass offers a Newcomer English curriculum that will help guide your teaching and supplement your instruction.

How does Let's Talk! English curriculum aligns with recognized language proficiency standards like WIDA and how does it support the specific domains of language?

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Let's Talk! The Newcomer English curriculum is explicitly aligned to both the CEFR proficiency levels and the WIDA standards. It comprehensively includes activities for all four language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

What specific features do Let's Talk! English curriculum offers to build speaking and writing proficiency, and how does it incorporate automatic feedback?

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Let's Talk! English places a strong emphasis on speaking and writing. An AI-based speech-recognition engine enables students to practice their pronunciation skills and receive immediate feedback without teacher intervention. For writing, students can respond to teacher-generated prompts, and teachers can view and score these responses, providing feedback. Importantly, 50% of activities, including pronunciation and various written tasks (quizzes, matching, jumbling), are auto-graded by the software, providing instant feedback to students.

What is the scope of the digital activity library within the Let's Talk! English curriculum, and how does it cater to varied levels of rigor and teacher customization?

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Students have access to over 3000 digital activities through the SmartClass platform, with each course level  including over 400 digital activities. These activities are created using more than 20 different activity templates that address all language skills and varying degrees of rigor. Teachers also have the flexibility to easily add their own customized activities to the curriculum.

How does the newcomer english curriculum support teachers in managing and implementing the content effectively, including progress monitoring and providing personalized feedback?

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Let's Talk! English is a teacher-managed curriculum, with teachers using a dedicated teacher's handbook to navigate course materials and preview activities for assignment. Beyond auto-grading, teachers can selectively add written and/or oral feedback for individual students. The platform's integrated grade book and detailed progress tracking tools are crucial for teachers to monitor student performance over time and provide targeted instruction.

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