Presentation Title |
Time |
Audience(s) |
Objectives |
| Assessing Reading Comprehension of Content Area Texts |
One day |
- General education, ESL and/or bilingual teachers working with ELLs in grades 3 and up who are decoding but not yet comprehending printed text |
- Introduce research-based assessment and instruction for increasing reading comprehension in the content areas
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| Assessing Content Area Writing: Text Structures |
One day |
- General education, ESL and/or bilingual teachers working with ELLs in grades 3 and up who are already writing at sentence-level and are ready to move to paragraph-level writing |
- Learn how text structures (the way texts are organized) are culturally-based and discover the five predominant text structures in content area texts
- Engage in creating paragraphs using colorful manipulatives and be able to use scoring rubrics to assess writing
- See the importance of teaching and assessing text structures with ELLs |
| Assessing Oral Language |
One day |
- General education, ESL and/or bilingual teachers |
- Find out the key differences between oral and written language based on second language acquisition research
- Listen to and rate student oral language samples using holistic and analytic scoring rubrics
- Receive guidance in aligning state standards for oral language with your classroom learning activities and assessments |
| Scaffolding Reading Instruction & Assessment |
Half day |
- General education, ESL and/or bilingual teachers working with intermediate ELLs in grades 3 and up |
- Understand scaffolding, its helpfulness to ELLs, and how teachers can provide it
- Simulate different approaches to scaffolding using visuals, hands-on activities and language simplification to promote comprehension of content area texts |
| Scaffolding Content Area Reading Assessments |
Half day |
- General education, ESL and/or bilingual teachers working with intermediate ELLs in grades 3 and up |
- Introduce participants to scaffolding approaches for increasing the validity and reliability of teacher-made assessments of reading comprehension in the content areas
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| Assessment Toolbox--Using the Right Tool |
Half day |
- General education, ESL and/or bilingual teachers working with ELLs |
- Discover a variety of performance-based assessment tools for measuring the progress of ELLs in oral language, reading and writing
- Receive templates that can be easily adapted and used for different tasks and settings |
| Designing Scoring Rubrics that Promote Learning |
Half day |
- General education, ESL and/or bilingual teachers working with ELLs
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-Introduce a four-step process for designing your own standards-based scoring rubrics
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| Standards-Based Instruction & Assessment |
Half day |
- General education, ESL and/or bilingual teachers working with ELLs |
- Guide participants in the design of instructional activities and assessments based on standards.
- Compare ELP standards to content area standards, learn to assess students' needs, draft standards-based lesson plans, assess procedural and declarative knowledge, and use assessment results to guide instruction |
If you are interested in offering any of these trainings in your state or district, please make an initial inquiry by using our PD Request Form. This will allow our professional development team to guage your needs and check the calendar so that we can give you more informed answers during your first contact with us for planning purposes.
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