About this Resource
This professional development series is designed to help preschool to grade 12 teachers, EAL consultants, and school administrators understand the new Alberta EAL Proficiency Benchmarks 2.0. The series explores the:
- differences between Benchmarks 2.0 and Benchmarks 1.0
- new 8 level proficiency scales
- new developmentally appropriate grade groupings
- 3 required competencies (Vocabulary, Sentence Structure and Connections & Transitions) for annual assessment
- examples of the 3 competencies across the strands of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
- supporting competencies to aid in instructional design and understanding the EAL learner
- Vocabulary, Sentence Structure and Cohesive Devices levelled samples
