Tracking Progress of ELL studentsShirley Rouse-BeyAchievement CoachCFN 204

Tools to Track Progress

Free Resources for the ESL Teacher• LearnBoost is a free English as a Second Language teaching

resource that offers the ESL teacher software to create and share lesson plans, record grades, track student progress, analyze learning trends, add narrative reports, and so much more.

• learnboost.com

Learnboost

• The free product meets the unique needs of the ESL teacher by providing the ability to create and share multi-media lesson plans, and easily record grades and attendance

LearnBoost• LearnBoost empowers educators with a free all-in-one

management solution, offering a suite of tools such as grade and progress tracking, standards-aligned lesson planning, analytics and reporting, and the ability to connect with parents and students.

• LearnBoost is fully-integrated with Google Apps and available in fifteen languages

Tracking Student Progress• By individual student • By percentages of students• By grade• By school-wide trends

Progress Monitoring

• Progress Monitoring (PM) is conducted

frequently and is designed to:• – Determine whether students are benefitting

appropriately from an instructional program• – Identify students who are not demonstrating

adequate progress• – Build more effective programs for the children

who are not benefitting appropriately.• – Compare the efficacy of different forms of

instruction and design more effective, individualized instructional programs.

Let’s Explore

• https://www.learnboost.com/tour/lessonplans

Tracking Sheets• 3 choices• ESL Proficiency Benchmarks• Link to an electronic monitoring form http://

fs19.formsite.com/kakniss/ELLMonitorForm/index.html?1329879424885

•

Rubrics• I always created my own rubrics in a table with Microsoft

Word because I didn’t have to tackle another convoluted software program. If Word or another table-making template doesn’t work for you, I recently stumbled upon RubiStar and Teach4Learning. These are great free resources for building custom rubrics that you can just save and attach.

Oral and written products• Some of the oral and written products useful for assessing ESL

students' progress are content area thinking and learning logs, reading response logs, writing assignments (both structured and creative), dialogue journals, and audio or video cassettes.

Content area logs• Content area logs are designed to encourage the use of

metacognitive strategies when students read expository text. Entries can be made on a form with these two headings: What I Understood/What I Didn't Understand (ideas or vocabulary).

Reading response logs• Reading response logs are used for students' written

responses or reactions to a piece of literature. Students may respond to questions--some generic, some specific to the literature--that encourage critical thinking, or they may copy a brief text on one side of the page and write their reflections on the text on the other side.

• Beginning ESL students often experience success when an expository writing assignment is controlled or structured. The teacher can guide students through a pre-writing stage, which includes discussion, brainstorming, webbing, outlining, and so on. The results of pre-writing, as well as the independently written product, can be assessed.

Student writing• Student writing is often motivated by content themes.

Narrative stories from characters' perspectives (e.g., a sailor accompanying Christopher Columbus, an Indian who met the Pilgrims, a drop of water in the water cycle, etc.) would be valuable inclusions in a student's writing portfolio.

Audio and video cassettes• Audio and video cassettes can be made of student oral

readings, presentations, dramatics, interviews, or conferences (with teacher or peers).

Portfolios• Portfolios are used to collect samples of student work over

time to track student development. Tierney, Carter, and Desai (1991) suggest that, among other things, teachers do the following:

• maintain anecdotal records from their reviews of portfolios and from regularly scheduled conferences with students about the work in their portfolios;

• keep checklists that link portfolio work with criteria that they consider integral to the type of work being collected;

• devise continua of descriptors to plot student achievement. • Whatever methods teachers choose, they should reflect

with students on their work, to develop students' ability to critique their own progress.

Portfolio• The following types of materials can be included in a portfolio:• Audio- and videotaped recordings of readings or oral

presentations. • Writing samples such as dialogue journal entries, book

reports, writing assignments (drafts or final copies), reading log entries, or other writing projects.

• Art work such as pictures or drawings, and graphs and charts.

Portfolio• The following types of materials can be included in a portfolio:• Conference or interview notes and anecdotal records. • Checklists (by teacher, peers, or student). • Tests and quizzes. • To gain multiple perspectives on students' academic develop

Dialogue journals• Dialogue journals provide a means of interactive, ongoing

correspondence between students and teachers. Students determine the choice of topics and participate at their level of English language proficiency. Beginners can draw pictures that can be labeled by the teacher.

ELL Assessment Kits

• http://theellconsortium.wikispaces.com/Available+Formative+Assessments

Department of Education Resource

• ELL Periodic Assessment• May be beneficial for beginners/newcomers• Does not include Speaking

The AMAO Tool• The AMAO Tool was recently updated to reflect changes in the

RESI report which is downloaded from ATS. In addition, the tool now includes

• More information specific to high schools, such as cohort and regents testing status

• More data on the summary report page (tab 2)• A list of the at-risk factors which prints at the bottom of tab 2• To download the AMAO Tool Version 6.0, go to

http://intranet.nycboe.net/SpecialPopulations/ELL/Resources/amao.htm

Compliance Conversations

• New HLIS• NYSESLAT Prep

Thank You!!!

© AMNH / Denis Finnin

The mermaid Lasirèn is a powerful water spirit popular in the Caribbean Islands and parts of the Americas.