English Language Learners For My Assessment

The situation amongst ELLs and literacy instruction, including assessment practices, is confusing for many teachers; therefore there is still much exploration left in terms of the best practices for the instruction and assessment of ELLs (Ebe, 2010).

The instructional setting is two eighth grade classrooms with class sizes of 28 and 32 students. Of the 60 students, ten are Hispanic, four are Asian, and one is African-American. All ten Hispanic students are bilingual with overall California English Language Development Test (CELDT) classifications of: one student intermediate, three early advanced, and one advanced. The remaining five Hispanic students have been reclassified to English proficient and do not require EL support. Four students are foster youth. Nine students receive special education support.

Did you know that 92 percent of all English students end up passing the class, but that only 84 percent of choir students pass English class? In elementary school, I was able to write and read efficiently. However, my comprehension of what as I read as I got older was not as good as it could have been. I was able to read books and understand the main points, but often I would forget little details. My past few years in English have been successful and I have been able to achieve many of the goals I have set for myself as an English student. In this paper, I will address my strengths, my weaknesses, what I enjoy the most, and how I learn the best. I have some strengths and weaknesses and ways I learn the best doing hands-on learning and activities. My strengths in English are writing papers and doing hands-on stuff. My weaknesses are comprehending things and doing bookwork.

Hi everyone my name is Kyle and it is nice to see all the people interested in this course. I have been interested in coding for quite some time now but I have never gotten around to attempt to learn it. So to sum it up I have practically no coding experience but now that I am in a course such as this I can begin to learn the basics of one of the languages and boy am I eager to learn.

Not only is the test giving in both the students native language and english It is also takes into account cultural and linguistic issues that can come up in standardized testing.

The pre-service teacher believes that Serge was not assessed adequately. The test was not valid for Serge and with invalid information you cannot place a child based on the results. The mother also claimed that Serge was very intelligent at home and she feels that Serge was just having difficulties picking up the language. Even though the school tried their best to assess Serge and place him correctly, the test was not accurate on Serge’s capabilities. Serge was found to have an average range of intelligence after he took a nonverbal test, but when he took the verbal test they found that he had a learning disability. We have to remember that second language learners often do not verbalize a reply. Second language learners go through a “silent” period where they will write

My placement is in two sixth-grade classes, math and social studies. In my current 6th grade math placement, I am not seeing any differentiation of instruction or assessment based on their language proficiency levels. As I was discussing this assignment with my teacher, it was very difficult for her to give me any of this information. She had to look on the computer to find out who was an ELL and how many ELL students she had, as well as the number of IEP students she had. After realizing she did

I love the idea of pairing English Language Learners with other students in the classroom. However, I have witnessed this in the classroom and I will say that it wasn't the best pairing for either student. The reason I feel this way is because of the personality conflicts. The native English speaking student would become very abrasive with his ELL because she was not listening to him. When I would remind him to slow down and explain to her what he was saying and the reason he wanted to do it his way, he would get aggravated. I feel when pairing ELL students we as teachers have to be mindful of both individuals personalities. It is my opinion that ELL's need to be partnered with a strong reader who is thoughtful and patient. A student who is

This artifact is all of the materials on the micro-teaching lesson plan I completed in my assessment course based on an article titled, Fair and Square Assessments for ELLs. This lesson explained all the key points in the article. The main focus of this article was how to make assessments fair for English language learners, by using the strategies discussed in the article. This artifact would fit under standard #2: learning differences, since it is discussing how English language learners learn differently and need guidance with assessments. By having this background on English language learners will allow me to have a better understand of how to effectively teach and assess English language learners. This is a representation of my best work

The English language is particularly complex in almost all aspects. Many of the words in the English language have different meanings for the same word. This is not unlike the definition of the different levels of usage. McCrimmon defines the three levels, formal, moderate, and colloquial, by their sentence structure, diction, and tone (McCrimmon 193). ¹ Using McCrimmon’s definitions, authors can determine what type of writing is applicable to each of the three levels. For the formal writings, an adequate example of where readers can find it is in a professional journal, and an appropriate place to find an example of the moderate level is in a weekly news magazine. Also, the best place to look for an example of the colloquial level is in certain sections of the newspaper. All of the levels of usage apply to these different types of writings and assist in defining what each level involves.

Moreover, the participants had to be fluent in both English and Spanish. The Hispanic parent participants were selected if they had been attending the school district for at least a year and had their “ELL children enrolled in the district’s elementary, middle, and high schools” (Good et al., 2010, p. 325). All the parents’ main language was Spanish.

English is an international language which is used officially all around the world. Anybody who wants to make connections with the world we live in should learn English. I had English language classes in my secondary and high school years. I also took some private English learning courses throughout summers in my country, Turkey. However, I could not improve my English effectively as all Turkish students in Turkey. I fully agree that English will be learned most efficiently in the boundaries of an English-speaking country not in the home country because of some cases. Therefore, I came here, USA, to learn English better after graduation from my university.

In contemporary society the Standard variety of English is the most commonly used as it is respected and associated with a higher prestige. Its usage is also advocated by prescriptivists who believe that it is the ‘correct’ and only variety that should be used. Standard English is usually seen in formal settings, where its usage is necessary for official and public purposes. However, contextual factors play a vital role in determining the most appropriate variety to be used, which is supported by the Principle of Appropriateness. Certain contexts where a non-standard variety is necessary are in social media settings and in communities of different ethnicities, where they are undeniably required to create solidarity between speakers.

There are not many advantages for English language learners whereas standardized testing is concerned. Teachers will have to create individualized ways in monitoring students’ progress to gain true assessment results.

I have never really paid attention to certain languages or how people talk, until last year in my senior english class. My English teacher's name was Ms.Gibbons, she was short with short brown hair, and skin as white as a ghost.Her classroom was at the very end of a long hallway, tables sit up in a U shape with chairs all around them,blueish carpet, white walls with english signs everywhere, one row of computers across from the 9 windows, a smart board at the front of the room, and also her brown desk at the front of the room. My class was going to start a new subject on dialect. One of the assignments were to take a test on the internet. The test had many different objects, animals, food, etc, I had to answer the question with whatever I called the object it showed. The results of the test guessed what state I were from based on what I called these objects. Odd how one little test can guess where you're living by the way you talk or call things. Different languages came to my attention by the way people call objects different things, people's accents, and the way people pronounce things.