1	Leadership Institute for Latino Literacy (LILL) Modifying Assessments to Support Student Learning Lynn Willner
2	Warm Up How do you find out whether your students can read the textbook you’ll be using? With your group, generate a list of assessments you might offer.
3	Organizer for the Session Continuous, educative uses of assessment can help you get an accurate portrait of your students’ strengths and needs Adapted classroom - based assessments can help you identify student levels more accurately
4	Session Outcomes Prioritized list of assessment data to gather at the beginning of the school year Practice using modified anecdotal records and scaffolded checklists
5	Challenges When Assessing Beginning and Intermediate English Language Learners Beginning ELLs: Difficulty with language objectives may mask their achievement of content objectives for lessons Intermediate ELLs: Surface proficiency in English may mask lack of academic language proficiency
6	English Language Acquisition
7	Patterns of Growth by ELLs
8	Example of Slower Progress
9	Use Your Assessments to… Establish an accurate baseline picture of your students’ strengths and weaknesses Measure progress over time Obtain specific information for lesson planning
10	Warm Up Review Let’s review the lists you and your generated Group items by: Reading comprehension Reading strategies Reading skills Reading attitudes Self assessment
11	Practice Modifying Classroom-Based Assessment Tools Separate opinion from descriptions when observing students Include “prompted or with support” column to checklist to identify students’ Zones of Proximal Development
12	Expanded Anecdotal Records
13	Scaffolding Provide support on one part of the task (usually language, sometimes the writing demands) so that the student is free to focus on their thinking.
14	Modified Checklist: Which Students Might Need Scaffolding?
15	Using a Checklist to Plan Lessons 1. Assess larger group with checklist 2. Review checklist for “prompted” and “not at all” responses 3. Plan follow-up lessons for smaller groups: If “prompted”: revisit from different angle If “not at all”: revisit from different angle with added scaffolding
16	Questions/Comments?
17	Exit Ticket What is one thing you knew already in today’s session and one thing you learned that’s new?