Implement formative assessments for ELL students
How will you implement formative assessment in your classroom to support the Common Core State Standards and the ongoing, formative assessment of ELL students?
Category: Education
What is a technological support you might provide to help them (could involve a computer, computer program, phone, iPad, etc.)?
Visual report
PURPOSE:
When we begin to think about ways to provide supports to students with disabilities we can quickly get overwhelmed. We often “overthink” what supports might be needed. For example, many educators will create elaborate, color-coded, laminated charts for students to help them stay on task or select reinforcers. While these are totally fine (as long as they are age appropriate), always start small. Can just create a post-it they can point to for the reinforcer they choose (e.g., library time, computer)? Can simply have a post-it with the question staying on task right now?YES or NO” and point to it as walk around the room. Can provide a written schedule they can put in a notebook instead of a giant visual schedule with pictures that needs to be placed on a wall with velcro? Can put a reminder in their phone? Sometimes the answer is need the big elaborate support” and that isTOTALLY FINE.But hope this helps you think about different ways of supporting students. Ways that are more socially appropriate or don’t require so much planning and preparation on your end are ideal.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Respond to the following prompts. See rubric for scoring and specific items to include.
(1 paragraph minimum)
1. Think back to your own high school experience. If you were sitting through an IEP meeting with your parents about your future what would you find challenging about the meeting? What would you feel? (memes are encouraged) What supports might you need to participate? Get specific.
(1 paragraph minimum)
2. Some students we work with have complex communication needs (they might not use verbal speech, might use an augmentative and alternative communication device, might use images for comprehension instead of written text) or extreme behaviors.
We often think of these students as not being able to participate in the IEP process because they have challenges self-managing their behavior or aren’t able to communicate with IEP teams in traditional ways.
Post a visual support (develop on your own or find an existing support on the web) that might help a high school student with these challenges (you can choose behavior or communication challenges) to participate in an IEP meeting.
Think critically to discuss how it will be used, how it is socially appropriate, and which IEP steps it would support them through.
What is a technological support you might provide to help them (could involve a computer, computer program, phone, iPad, etc.)?
Think critically to identify how it will be used, how it is socially appropriate, and which IEP steps it would support them through.
Exclamation point.
This week’s technology alert activity is more about using the web to find resources than creating something.
Find and post a resource (e.g., website, blog, podcast, video) about self-determination.
Make sure to tell us why you selected the resource and how it might be helpful for other colleagues. If you want to get real wild you can speak to why self-determination is important for ALL students.
Discuss one of the philosophies—perennialism, essentialism, progressivism, and reconstructionism—by explaining how the four philosophies of education differ from each other and influenced education over time.
Discusses four major philosophies that influenced U.S. education
Chapter 2
Discusses four major philosophies that influenced U.S. education. In your original post, discuss one of the philosophies—perennialism, essentialism, progressivism, and reconstructionism—by explaining how the four philosophies of education differ from each other and influenced education over time.
Green: Perennialism
Hawkins: Essentialism
Lu: Progressivism
Watkins: Reconstructionism
Chapter 3
discusses the curriculum development in six different historical periods.
choose one of the historical periods and discuss the major characteristics of curriculum development in that period.
Discuss how Learning to write in English is a developmental process that involves being able to. Is it useful or not useful to use the conventions from the First Language?
Teaching English Language Learners: Across the Content
Description
The essay should discuss:
-Determining the degree of Writing Instruction that is needed in the classroom for the English Language Learners. Is it useful or not useful to use the conventions from the First Language?
Discuss how Learning to write in English is a developmental process that involves being able to
-Communicate meaningfully through writing
-Write for a range of purposes
-Use Culturally appropriate terms
-Use correct form and grammar.
_What are strategies that educators may use that are helpful in ELL Writing Instruction.
_Discuss Calkin’s Four Phases of the Writing Process
This essay must be written in the first person and must conclude with a personal interpretation of what is written.
How can children resolve their misunderstanding, lack of understanding, or fear when presented with an opportunity to interact with someone who is different from them?
Literature Representing Diverse Perspectives Aoife O’Leary, Sarah Manning,
Diverse Perspectives in the United States★“The best defense against allowing racist views to take hold of our children is to surround them with rice, Realistic information about children from many other backgrounds.” ○Some critics worry that emphasizing multicultural education in the U.S may fragment our loyalties and loosen our civic ties to each other.○Others argue that multicultural education is fully American and that recognizing the culture and potential of different groups is necessary to their pursuit of happiness and justice.
★Schools in the United States are experiencing a tremendous increase in the cultural and ethnic diversity of the children they serve.
★Despite decades of calling for diversity in literature, the books being published today still do not reflect the depth and diversity of our diversity.
Diverse Perspectives in U.S (cont’d)
★Multicultural education theorists define pluralism as diversity in “ethnic” racial, Linguistic, religious, economic and gender among others.
★The goal of multicultural education is freedom-helping students develop the knowledge, attitudes, and skills that will allow them to participate in a democratic and free society.
★Educators must know their own culture, assumptions, and biases before they can be ready to scaffold how their students learn about their cultures and understand those of others.
★The enormous differences in urban/rural/suburban lifestyles need to be reflected in the literature to get richer, more nuanced ways of knowing our worlds.
Ask the Author: Alma Flor Ada
★Alma Flor Ada discusses the argument about whether or not one has to be a member of culture to write about it.○If you possess enough knowledge and understanding, you should be able to write about something with a degree of authenticity.○However, if you are not actually a part of that culture, it can be difficult to gain the intrinsic expression of the cultural values.★Children deserve the truth at its best
★Schools face many demands when it comes to shaping the curriculum. Some of these demands include having the curriculum based on one single perspective.○Imagine how that would work? If only white, able-bodied characters are presented in a curriculum, how would female students and people of Ethnic diversity feel?
★Although strides have been made in creating anti-bias curriculums that promote social justice, more work is needed
. ★Schools are instrumental in providing opportunities for students to read and discuss material from multiple viewpoints. ○These discussions are important in developing attitudes of open-Mindedness about diversity.
Literature’s Potential for Influencing the Reader’s Perspective
★Question: How can children resolve their misunderstanding, lack of understanding, or fear when presented with an opportunity to interact with someone who is different from them?
★Answer: Literature that portrays diversity in natural ways can provide realistic images as well as inspire discussion.
★Fiction and informational books can enhance children’s understanding of cultures by involving them emotionally. ○The narrower the focus of such books allows for deeper exploration of the thoughts, feelings and experiences of people from diverse groups.
★“We need to share our stories because in so doing, we hope to be understood, and being understood we are no longer so alone.” Julius Lester
What is Multicultural Literature?
★What definition would you use for multicultural literature?○There is mainstream agreement that multicultural literature is about people who are not in the mainstream however, there is no consensus as to what constitutes non-mainstream populations.
★Website related to multicultural literature- www.oyate.orgMulticultural literature in our book is defined as, “Works that reflect the multitude of cultural groups within the United States. These books reflect ethnic and regional groups whose cultures historically have been less represented than European cultures. “ Temple, C., Martinez M., Yokota J. (2019) Children’s Books in Children’s Hands.Pearson
What aspects of educational leadership that were discussed by the author were relevant and meaningful to you?
Educational Leadership.
First select one article from Part Four: Leadership for Learning in The Jossey-Bass Reader on Educational Leadership.
Include the following in your journal entry about the article that you selected.
1. Information about the article: Name of author and title of article.
2. Brief explanation about why you selected this article in this section.
3. Summarize the article and include the most poignant ideas described by the author.
4. What aspects of educational leadership that were discussed by the author were relevant and meaningful to you?
5. How did the article change the way you think about educational leadership?
6. How will you incorporate the lessons learned from the article into your future professional life?
7. Identify at least five KSMs in the article (either directly or indirectly referenced) then explain how these identified KSMs relate the content of the article.
8. Outline a real-life event (s) that you have either experienced or observed that you thought about as you read the article.
What would you change and why? what worked and what didn’t? what was useful and what was pointless? can the wider teaching community learn anything from your investigation?
Critically reflect on how creativity and assessment are used to support children’s learning in science.
A creative tool was developed for a KS3 Biology class, where they had to do a story board for a journey of a sandwich through the digestive system. this was delivered across 3 lessons. Assess the students in relation to what they have learned using your creative tool.
intro – outline the aim of the assignment, talk about the school the demographic and the class that be teaching for the lesson sequence . any SEND or EAL in the class (this can be left out –
lit review – Defining creativity and what it means in the classroom. how can it be achieved in science, what factors increase it, so what can you as a teacher do to facilitate it as much as possible, how do you know students work is creative?Defining assessment, different types. what type will you be looking at and why? thats AfL for us. how is effective assessment done? What tools/methods are used to make assessment for effective?The lesson sequence – explaining the design of the lesson sequence based on everything youve found out in your lit review. e.g. did this because Dennis and Williams (2003) said blah blah’. justify everything in your lesson sequence designinclude the lesson sequence table and reference lesson plans in appendixfindings and observations – reflect on how it went, did the students work creatively? why do you think so? any issues/problems in the class? why? reference students work in the appendix. is it creative? why? how did the assessment go? any issues?recommendations and conclusions – so what would you change and why? what worked and what didn’t? what was useful and what was pointless? can the wider teaching community learn anything from your investigation?
What specific guidelines would be critical for you to consider when planning the lesson?What are some ways teachers can assess students in the classroom to include reading and writing?
Planning the lesson
These are separate assignment and should have its own reference page.
Topic 5 DQ 1
If you were utilizing a reading strategy among students with Intermediate English proficiency, what specific guidelines would be critical for you to consider when planning the lesson?
Topic 5 DQ 2
When assessing ELLs, teachers must use a variety of assessments in order to get the most accurate snapshot of academic and language progress.
What are some ways teachers can assess students in the classroom to include reading and writing?
What are the 4 curricular components that UDL can be applied to? Why is it important for educatorsclear about what they expect students to learn (learning goals) before addressing the other curricular components? 4
o Type directly into this graphic organizer document to complete this assignment as you work through the Iris Module.
o Upload your completed assignment to the course site.
Challenge
Watch the video for this section & jot down your initial thoughts by answering the questions.
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Complete the activity provided at the bottom of the section (purple box)
Explain how completing this activity will influence your thought process when developing lessons.
2
Define the 3 principles of UDL and share your comfort zone for embedding each into your lesson plan design.
3What are the 4 curricular components that UDL can be applied to? Why is it important for educatorsclear about what they expect students to learn (learning goals) before addressing the other curricular components?
4
Complete the activity provided at the bottom of the section (purple box).
Rewrite the goal so that it incorporates the UDL principles. How did the feedback component support your understanding?
5
Complete the activity provided at the bottom of this section Include your answers in this box.
6 Complete the activity provided at the bottom of this section and include your answers in this box.
7
Complete the activity provided at the bottom of this section. How has completing this activity supported you to think about student projects and the development of rubrics?
8
Explain how Ms. Sung’s learning needs and preference chart can support the needs of learners in her class. Explain how considering the 4 learning modalities addressed in this section supported the development of her UDL lesson plan.
9
Summarize the 4 instructional approaches that Grace Meo addresses and explain how UDL might minimize the need for some of these supports.
How can the use of music help in developing literacy, math and the social sciences in the early childhood classroom? Explain why music is often more effective than words for preschool children.
Explain why music is often more effective than words for preschool children.
* What activities would you use with children to develop their Phonological awareness? (Refer to Fig. 4.1)
* Explain how you have (or could have) used music to promote your own cognition or memory.
* How can the use of music help in developing Literacy, math and the social sciences in the early childhood classroom?