Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Assessing Comprehension
and Communication in
English State-to-State for
English Language
Learners
What do I do?
Theyre in my class?
GRADING AND RETENTION
What instruction must ELLs receive?
English language development
Driven by W-APT and WIDA ACCESS scores.
BICS and CALP
Content learning
Driven by content standards and objectives of Alabama State
Course of Study.
Required standardized testing objectives.
What do I do? Theyre in my classroom!
Provide professional development for content-area
and grade-level teachers!
ACCOMMODATIONS must be provided by the
content-area or grade-level teacher.
Examples:
Activation of background knowledge
Scaffolded instruction
Sheltering of instruction
Use of authentic assessment tools
What assessment methods should be used
with an ELL?
Use authentic methods of assessment with ELL
interview or oral assessments
projects or illustrations
observation or interactions
traditional format with accommodations
use translation tools
reduced text format
graphic support
What considerations should be made when
assigning grades for ELLs?
Is an I-ELP in place?
Were accommodations made to lower the language
barrier?
Were authentic assessment methods used to
evaluate ELL student learning of content?
Were all content objectives included in students
instruction?
What level of mastery on content objectives did
student demonstrate?
What considerations should be made regarding
retention?
Is an I-ELP in place?
Were accommodations made to lower the language
barrier?
Were authentic assessment methods used to
evaluate ELL student learning of content?
Were all content objectives included in students
instruction?
What level of mastery on content objectives did
student demonstrate?
Failing Grades & Retention
Documentation to support action
Develop a protocol
Example components:
Samples of regular and accommodated documents
Samples of graded and/or accommodated student work
Brief narrative of teacher behaviors
accommodations made
teacher observations of student behavior
contact with ELL specialist
contact with parents
Failure and Retention
Failure and retention is determined through the
support of evidence that:
accommodations were provided
consideration was made of students level of language
proficiency
progress monitoring and intervention strategies were
implemented
Common Issues
Waiving ESL services
ESL students with interrupted academic backgrounds/
different standards in different countries
Language barriers
Lack of time/resources to prepare for ESL instruction &
differentiation- ask Mrs. Smith!
Use of technology with ESL students- Mrs. Smith to
investigate language options. **Edmodo is available with
Spanish language settings.
Credits
Presentation adapted from original created by:
Dely Roberts, ALSDE Federal Programs
Cindy Hunt, ALSDE Regional ELL Coach