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Welcome to TELL Course Syllabus: Assessment for Linguistically Diverse Students Explanation of the Template Total Points Session One: Understanding My Role as an Assessor LA 1.1 Exploring Our Assessment Practices LA 1.2 Considering a Learner's Assets LA 1.3 Assessing For Placement AVG 1.1 The Assessment Process LA 1.4 Outlining and Applying the Assessment System LA 1.5 Building Knowledge of Types of Assessment HW 1.1 Actions Taken and Learning HW 1.2 Attending to Equity and Oral Language in Assessing ELs HW 1.3 Identifying Assessment Issues for ELs HW 1.4 Reading about Professional Learning Communities HW 1.5 Identifying WIDA Scores HW 1.6 Time Capsule Self-Assessment Session Two: Developing Understanding through Media AVG 2.1 Parables of Classroom Interaction LA 2.1 Changing the Conversation AVG 2.2 Learning WIDA's purpose and philosophy AVG 2.3 CAN DO Approach LA 2.2 Introduction to Using Can-Do Descriptors AVG 2.4 Planning with the End in Mind LA 2.3 Planning for the Final Project HW 2.1 Actions Taken and Learning HW 2.2 Assessment for English Language Learners HW 2.3 Implementing WIDA Can Do Philosophy HW 2.4 Supporting English Learners HW 2.5 Analyzing WIDA as Assessment Session Three: Designing Assessment Using Standards for Effective Pedagogy LA 3.1 Deepening Knowledge of Standards for Effective Pedagogy LA 3.2 Designing for Understanding in Action LA 3.3 Attending to the Five Standards in Evaluating a Lesson LA 3.4 Taking Action LA 3.5 Assessment as a Context for Teaching and Learning LA 3.6 Content and Language Objectives HW 3.1 Reflection on Taking Action Based on My Learning HW 3.2 Collaborative Work to Support EL Learning HW 3.3 Using Technology for Developing ELs Academic Language HW 3.4 Language Proficiency to Academic Achievement HW 3.5 AVG 5.1 The Alternative Assessment Movement HW 3.6 Constructing a Student Profile Session Four : Considering Alternative Assessments in Relationship to ELs AVG 4.1 Developing Knowledge of WIDA Interpretive Rubrics LA 4.1 Sharing My Student AVG 4.2 Types of Assessment LA 4.2 Exploring Informal Content Area Assessments LA 4.3 Assessment Tool Marketplace LA 4.4 Planning Assessment for My Unit HW 4.1 Actions Taken and Learning HW 4.2 Analyzing Student Writing HW 4.3 Conceptions of Oral Language Assessment HW 4.4 Examining Authentic Assessments Session Five: Designing and Developing Assessments AVG 5.1 Designing Alternative Assessments LA 5.1 Designing Assessments for Learning AVG 5.2 Selecting and Planning Alternative Assessments LA 5.2 Understanding Rubrics and Scoring Guides LA 5.3 Developing a Rubric or Scoring Guide HW 5.1 Actions Taken in Learning HW 5.2: Developing Expertise in Item Writing HW 5.3 Re-examining Your Final Project HW 5.4 What I Think about High Stakes Testing HW 5.5 To Test or Not to Test Session Six: Debating and Responding to Assessment Issues LA 6.1 Debating the Value of High Stakes Testing LA 6.2 ESL Assessment Issues LA 6.3 Making My Deliberations Public LA 6.4 Assessment Literacy for Alternative Assessment AVG 6.2 Assessing Student Development LA 6.5 Final Project Review HW 6.1 Actions Taken in Learning HW 6.2 Examining Alignment and Coherence in Assessment HW 6.3 Issues in Grading HW 6.4 Evaluating and Adjusting Record Keeping HW 6.5 Creating and Revising My Final Project Session Seven: Developing Knowledge for Practice and Advocacy LA 7.1 Useful, Meaningful, and Equitable Assessment LA 7.2 Center 1--Analyzing the Final Project LA 7.3 Center 2--Motivating Learners LA 7.4 Center 3--Sharing Strategies for Record Keeping LA 7.5 Center 4--Using Standardized Test Scores to Guide Teaching LA 7.6 Center 5--Meeting Legal Obligations for ELs LA 7.7 Revising My Final Project HW 7.1 Actions Taken and Learning HW 7.2 Completing the Final Project Session Eight : Revealing My Learning LA 8.1 My Learning Presentation LA 8.2 Communicating My Unit Plan and My Reasoning LA 8.3 My Commitment for Assessing StudentsQuestions and Tasks
Add a note to the content. Download the content in PDF, Microsoft Word, or other format. View a summary of the content. View available translations of the content.Candidates understand issues of assessment and accommodation and will use a variety of measurement tools to evaluate English language learners for placement, proficiency and instruction.
1. Articulate issues of assessment as they affect learners’ development of English language skills, their access to the Utah core curriculum, and their placement in appropriate programs.
The experiences within the classroom cannot be reconstructed outside of class time with the facilitator or independently. Therefore, while attendance in and of itself does not count as part of your course grade, it is an important factor since recovering and reconstructing learning that occurs during class time will be difficult, if not impossible. Further, you will often be given credit for products developed during class time, and your presence is highly valued. In addition, students will usually work with colleagues and will frequently present findings and analysis during class time. For these reasons, it will be very difficult to make up class periods missed.
For the above reasons, full credit is only available to those students who attend each session and are present for the entire session. We recommend that if a teacher has to miss more than one of the eight sessions, they should be advised to take the course at another time.
In this course, your grade is based on participation in a learning process (i.e., process points) and the creation of individual and group products (i.e., individual and group product points) that emerge from participation in learning activities and homework. In addition, you will be asked to complete independent major assignments that will be evaluated for evidence of how you are learning and growing as a professional. Finally, you will present your professional development in relation to educating students of cultural and linguistic diversity in the final session of the course.
Type of Points | Description | Points |
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Process | Points for participating in learning activities during class | |
Homework Individual Product | Points for individual products produced for homework assignments | |
Practicum | Points for individual or group products produced for practicum assignments | |
Total |
Percentage | Grade |
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94-100% | A |
90-93 | A- |
87-89 | B+ |
83-86 | B |
80-82 | B- |
77-79 | C+ |
73-76 | C |
70-72 | C- |
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