The state of Georgia is a member of the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consotium. WIDA is a consortium of states dedicated to the design and implementation of high standards and equitable educational opportunities for English language learners.
The WIDA Consortium, established through a federally funded Enhanced Assessment Grant, is a consortium of twelve states, which includes Wisconsin (the lead state), Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Illinois, Alabama, Georgia, New Jersey, and Oklahoma. Combined, the twelve Consortium partner states account for nearly 380,000 English language learners in kindergarten through grade 12 in approximately 2500 school districts.
The WIDA Consortium has developed English language proficiency standards and an English language proficiency test (ACCESS for ELLs™). For more information about the Consortium, please see About WIDA.
The WIDA Consortium's English Language Proficiency Standards for English language learners in Kindergarten through Grade 12 ("the WIDA Standards") encompass five English language proficiency (ELP) standards and over 800 accompanying model performance indicators.
The Overview Document offers an explanation of the rationale for the Standards, the process of developing the Standards, and the format and components of the Standards. This document is an introduction to understanding and using the Standards.
The WIDA ELP Standards provide educators of English language learners (ELLs) with a curriculum and assessment planning tool for content area language objectives. The proficiency-based strands allow educators to gauge where ELLs are and how to appropriately challenge them in reaching the next levels. Educators may modify the content goals as needed to fit state and local standards as practiced at their schools.
Click here for a
description of how the ELP Standards are organized.
You can view or download the ELP Standards:
- Arrangement #1: the Standards are arranged by standard type, then by domain, then by grade level (in that specific order). In this arrangement, the combined framework consists of interleaved or alternating classroom and large-scale tables. Click here to see this arrangement of the WIDA standards, and for information about how you can order booklets of these standards.
- Arrangement #2: the Standards are arranged by either standard type, domain, or grade level. In this arrangement, each table in the combined framework includes the bullet points of the matching classroom and large-scale frameworks tables. Click here to see this arrangement of the WIDA standards. There is also a wizard that can assist you in choosing the standards you are interested in.
