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| Using Performance-Based Assessments in the ELD Classroom |
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What are performance-based assessments? What are
some of the challenges in using performance-based
assessments with ELLs? Dr. Kuhlman answers these
and many more questions in this month's column on ELL
assessment.
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| ELL Product Review: Skill Sharpeners |
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In the first installment of a new column in the ELL
Outlook, we describe the process we've developed to
analyze ELL instructional materials and
technology and
analyze Skill Sharpeners, a product for ELLs in
grades 6-
12, published by Longman.
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| ESOL Student Shares Challenges of Poverty, Learning English |
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Be inspired by the story of Mebrhit Hagos, an
exceptional teen who wants only to be "typical"
as she struggles to learn English, fit in, and overcome
the poverty that some families are unfortunately
pulled into.
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| Teacher Diary: A Chronicle of a First-Time ELL Teacher |
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The first in a series of articles takes us
inside the ELL
classroom of a first-year structured English
immersion
teacher in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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| Not Enough Time?
Teaching for Transfer, Integration, and Time on
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In "At Issue," Dr. Irujo begins a series
of columns
that will respond to some of the concerns raised
by a
recent survey of California ELL teachers. This
month's
column addresses the issue of "having enough
time to
teach EL students all of the required subject
matter,
including English language development."
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