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Samantha describes her approach for checking understanding and offering some differentiated assignments in a third-grade Social Studies lesson about different types of economic resources: natural, capital, and human.
Samantha describes the different goals of assessment in differing subject areas, such as reading and Social Studies, particularly for ELLs.
Samantha describes the way that she uses technology to differentiate for her students.
Samantha discusses the wide range of formats she uses for both formal and informal assessment in the classroom.
Sheila talks about the role that English language proficiency data, in this case from WIDA assessments, plays in planning instruction.
ESOL specialist Sheila Majdi from Arlington, VA explains what a sentence frame is and how she might use this strategy with ELLs.
Dr.
Lynn Shafer Willner is a researcher on ELD Standards and EL Accessibility at the WIDA Consortium. In this interview, she discusses the ways that assessment accommodations are changing with technology.
Debbie Zacarian discusses some of the challenges and considerations in identifying ELLs with disabilities, as well as the reasons for under- and over-identification and the importance of including families in identification and referral processes.