Transcript Principals’ Conference CFN 204

Principals’
Conference
CFN 204
Tracking ELL Student Progress
Shirley Rouse-Bey
Achievement Coach
Tracking Student Progress
• By an individual student
• By percentages of students in a class or that an ESL teacher
services
• By grade
• By school-wide trends
Progress Monitoring
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Progress Monitoring (PM) is conducted
frequently and is designed to:
– Determine whether students are benefitting
appropriately from an instructional program
– Identify students who are not demonstrating
adequate progress
– Build more effective programs for the children
who are not benefitting appropriately.
– Compare the effectiveness of different forms of
instruction, and design more effective, individualized
instructional programs.
Content area logs
• Content area logs are designed to encourage the use of
metacognitive strategies when students read expository text.
Entries can be made on a form with these two headings: What
I Understood/What I Didn't Understand (ideas or vocabulary).
• What I understand/What I now understand
Reading response logs
• Reading response logs are used for students' written
responses or reactions to a piece of literature. Students may
respond to questions--some generic, some specific to the
literature--that encourage critical thinking, or they may copy a
brief text on one side of the page and write their reflections
on the text on the other side.
• Beginning ESL students often experience success when an
expository writing assignment is controlled or structured. The
teacher can guide students through a pre-writing stage, which
includes discussion, brainstorming, webbing, outlining, and so
on. The results of pre-writing, as well as the independently
written product, can be assessed.
Student writing
• Student writing is often motivated by content themes.
Narrative stories from characters' perspectives (selected from
ReadyGen or your chosen curriculum) would be valuable
inclusions in a student's writing portfolio.
Dialogue journals
• Dialogue journals provide a means of interactive, ongoing
correspondence between students and teachers. Students
determine the choice of topics and participate at their level of
English language proficiency. Beginners can draw pictures that
can be labeled by the teacher.
Audio and video cassettes
• Audio and video cassettes can be made of student oral
readings, presentations, dramatics, interviews, or conferences
(with teacher or peers).
Portfolios
• Portfolios are used to collect samples of student
work over time to track student development.
Tierney, Carter, and Desai (1991) suggest that,
among other things, teachers do the following:
• maintain anecdotal records from their reviews of
portfolios and from regularly scheduled conferences
with students about the work in their portfolios;
• keep checklists that link portfolio work with criteria
that they consider integral to the type of work being
collected;
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ESL Proficiency Standards
• Use grade level ESL proficiency standards and/or CCLS to plot
student achievement.
• New Language Arts Progressions(draft) and Home Language
Arts Progressions(draft).
http://www.engageny.org/resource/new-york-state-bilingualcommon-core-initiative
• Whatever methods teachers choose, they should reflect with
students on their work, to develop students' ability to critique
their own progress.
Portfolio
• The following types of materials can be included in a portfolio:
• Audio- and videotaped recordings of readings or oral
presentations.
• Writing samples such as dialogue journal entries, book
reports, writing assignments (drafts or final copies), reading
log entries, or other writing projects.
• Art work such as pictures or drawings, and graphs and charts.
Rubrics
• RubiStar and Teach4Learning. These are great free resources
for building custom rubrics that you can just save and attach.
Create Free Google Forms
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_VDWWjZqIg
ELL Assessment Kits
• ELL Assessment Kit – Houghton Mifflin
http://www.hmhco.com/shop/k12/ELL-AssessmentKit/9781418923716
• DRA2 – Pearson
http://www.pearsonschool.com/index.cfm?locator=
PSZ4Z4&PMDbProgramId=23661&prognav=po
• English Benchmark Assessments- Santillana USA
http://www.santillanausa.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=English+
Benchmark+Assessments
Department of Education Resource
• ELL Periodic Assessment (optional 2x a year)
• May be beneficial for beginners/newcomers in
grades 3-12
• Does not include Speaking
Video-Tracking Student
Progress
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSsDwQTmvQo
The AMAO Tool
• The AMAO Tool was recently updated to reflect changes in the
RESI report which is downloaded from ATS. In addition, the
tool now includes
• More data on the summary report page (tab 2)
• A list of the at-risk factors which prints at the bottom of tab 2
• To download the AMAO Tool Version 6.0, go to
http://intranet.nycboe.net/SpecialPopulations/ELL/Resources/
amao.htm
Thank You!!!
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