EFL/ENL Instruction & Assessment Approaches

Schedule

Week
Themes
Readings
Assignments/Activities

Week 1

(3/1-3/5)

Course Introduction

  • Using OncourseCL
  • Exploring the Schedule
  • New Student Survey
  • Self-Introductions

 

ACTIVITIES:

  • Self-Introduction in discussion forum (due Friday, March 3)

  • New Student Survey (due Sunday, March 5)

Week 2

(3/6-3/8)

 ESL Myths & Misperceptions

And, one of the following:

 

ACTIVITY:

  • Discussion on your perceptions of "ESL Myths" and ELLs
(3/9-3/12) Influential ESL Approaches

Optional Readings on Constructivism:

ACTIVITY:

  • Discussion on ESL approaches and your classrooms.

ASSIGNMENT:

  • WebQuest Assignment (due Sunday, March 19)

 

Week 3

(3/13-3/15)

 

 Content-Based Instruction (CBI) - Part 1

Optional Readings:

 

ACTIVITY:

  • Discussion on CBI
 
(3/16-3/19) CBI - Part 2  

Optional:

 

ACTIVITY:

  • Discussion on your role in CBI
 

Week 4

(3/20-3/22)

 Sheltered Instruction (SI)  

 

ACTIVITY:

  • Discussion on Sheltered Instruction and you.
 
(3/23-3/26)

Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)

 

ACTIVITY:

  • Discussion on the use of the SIOP

ASSIGNMENT:

  • SIOP Lesson Plan (due Sunday, April 2)

 

Week 5

(3/27-3/29)

 

 Standardized Assessment

Recommended Optional Assessment Readings:

Additional Optional Readings:

  • Chapelle - Validity in language assessment
  • Coltrane (2002) ELLs and High-stakes Testing
  • Douglas - Performance consistency in SLA and LT research
  • Froese-Germain - Standardized testing + high stakes decisions = educational inequality
  • Gredler - Classroom assessments and learning
  • Popham - Uses and misuses of standardized tests
  • Sawaki (2001) Comparability of conventional and computerized tests of reading in a second language
  • Shohamy (2000) The relationship between language testing and SLA
  • Strickland & Strickland - Standards and standardization: the politics of assessment and evaluation

Standardized Test Resources:

 

ACTIVITY:

  • Validity & Reliability Wiki
(3/30-4/2)

Modifications and Adaptations of Standardized Assessments

 

  

ACTIVITY:

  • Discussion on modifications and adaptations of assessments

 

Week 6

(4/3-4/5)

 Alternative Assessments - Part 1  

One of the following:

 

ACTIVITY:

  • Discussion on alternaitve assessments

 
(4/6-4/9)

Alternative Assessments - Part 2

Equity vs. Equality

 

ACTIVITY:

  • Discussion on equity and equality in assessment

 

ASSIGNMENT:

  • Portfolio Rubric
    (due Sunday, April 16)

 

Week 7

(4/10-4/12)

Standards - Part 1

ESL standards in Indiana and beyond

 

ACTIVITY:

  • Discussion on Indiana ESL standards and their relation to other state and international standards
(4/13-4/16)

Standards - Part 2

ESL and Content Area standards in harmony

 

  

ACTIVITY:

  • Produce a short lesson plan that addresses both sets of standards.

Week 8

(4/17-4/19)

 Spring Break    
(4/20-4/23)

Spring Break

    

Week 9

(4/24-4/26)

  

Some writing resources that might come in handy for the Classroom Observation Report

REMINDER:

All make up work and revisions should be in by 4/26 (Tuesday)
(4/27-4/30)      

Week 10

(5/1-5/3)

 

 Final Assignments and Wrap up  

ACTIVITY:

  • Course Evaluations (due Friday, May 3--earlier would be better)

ASSIGNMENTS:

  • Classroom Observation Report (due Wednesday, May 3--before this date would even be better)