Assessing English Language Learners (Multimedia Kit): A Multimedia Kit for Professional Development

by Margo Gottlieb

Overview

Help participants use assessments that promote bilingual proficiency and educational equity for English language learners!

Designed around the best-selling book, this comprehensive multimedia presentation offers staff developers the materials to help teachers equitably assess the language proficiency and academic achievement of English language learners (ELLs). Facilitators and participants will examine an assessment framework for ELLs and explore issues that include:

• Assessments for listening, speaking, reading, and writing
• Differentiated instruction and assessment in math, science, and social studies
• The effectiveness of rubrics for ELLs
• Grading policies and their implications for ELLs
• Standards-based performance measures that complement standardized tools for ELLs

Includes: VHS Videotape (47 min.), DVD, CD-ROM With Power Point Slides, Facilitator’s Guide, Companion Book

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412970235
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	11/04/2008
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	10.30(w) x 12.50(h) x 3.10(d)

About the Author

Margo Gottlieb, Ph.D., is Co-founder and Lead Developer for WIDA at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin- Madison, having also served as Director, Assessment and Evaluation, for the Illinois Resource Center. She has contributed to the crafting of language proficiency/ development standards for American Samoa, Guam, TESOL, and WIDA and has designed assessments, curricular frameworks, and instructional assessment systems for language learners. Her professional experiences span from being an inner city language teacher to working with thousands of educators across states, school districts, publishing companies, governments, universities, and educational organizations.

Highlights of Margo’s career include being a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Chile and being appointed to the U.S. Department of Education’s Inaugural National Technical Advisory Council. In 2016 Margo was honored by TESOL International Association's 50@50 “as an individual who has made a significant contribution to the TESOL profession within the past 50 years.” She has had opportunities to travel extensively and has presented in American Samoa, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Denmark, Finland, Guam, Italy, Jakarta, Mexico, Panama, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom as well as close to home across the United States.

Margo's publications include over 70 articles, technical reports, monographs, chapters, and encyclopedia entries. Additionally she has authored, co-authored, and co-edited 11 books this past decade: Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Educational Equity (2^nd Ed., 2016), Academic Language in Diverse Classrooms: Definitions and Contexts (with G. Ernst-Slavit, 2014), a foundational book for the series Promoting Content and Language Learning (a compendium of three mathematics and three English language arts volumes co-edited with G. Ernst-Slavit, 2014, 2013), Common Language Assessment for English Learners (2012), Paper to Practice: Using the TESOL's English Language Proficiency Standards in Pre K-12 Classrooms (with A. Katz & G. Ernst-Slavit, 2009); and Assessment and Accountability in Language Education Programs: A Guide for Administrators and Teachers (with D. Nguyen, 2007).

Table of Contents

About the Author
Introduction
How to Use the Guide
How to Use the Video/DVD
How to Use the Power Point Slides
Additional Resources for Facilitators
Chapter-by-Chapter Study Guide: Facilitator's Guide to Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges From Language Proficiency to Academic Achievement
1. Assessment of English Language Learners: The Bridge to Educational Equity
2. Standards and Assessment: The Bridge From Language Proficiency to Academic Achievement
3. Assessing Oral Language and Literacy Development: The Bridge From Social Language Proficiency to Academic Language Proficiency
4. Assessing Academic Language Proficiency and Academic Achievement: The Bridge to Accountability
5. Classroom Assessment: The Bridge to Educational Parity
6. Documenting Performance Assessment: The Bridge From Teachers to Classrooms
7. Supports for Student, Classroom, and Large-Scale Assessment: The Bridge to Student Understanding
8. Standardized Testing and Reporting: The Bridge to Fair and Valid Assessment
9: Grading Systems: The Bridge to the Future
Sample Workshop Agendas
Agenda: Half-Day workshop Plan
Agenda: One-Day Workshop Plan
Chapter-by-Chapter Activity Sheets
Workshop Evaluation Form