Week 4 Types of Assessment School Adopted

1. Interview with teachers, reading teachers or resource room teachers to find out what types of assessment schools use, especially on what is necessary to achieve each assessment purpose (i.e., screening, diagnostic, progress monitoring, outcome).
2. Transcribe your interview on your blog (undergraduate use Blackboard blog, graduate use eblogger)

Week 3 Challenges encountered in your field experience...

Document challenges you have encountered this week (e.g. from cooperating teacher, parent, student, or school administration...).

Week 2 Questions

• What is your experience in terms of working or friends with people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds?
• Do you have experience in working with ELLs?
• Do you have experience in teaching ELLs?
• What is your perception on ELLs in terms of their learning motivation and performance in general and in reading and writing specially?
• What learning difficulties do ELLs usually encounter in schools?
• In your observation, how do classroom teachers resolve ELLs’ learning difficulties and improve their learning motivation? What strategies do they often adopt? Are these strategies effective? Are you familiar with these strategies? Are family and community involved?
• What intervention strategies would you adopt if you have ELLs in your class? How do you go about teaching the child? How do you go about reaching out to the family and the community?

Project timeline

Week 2:
-Identify the target student
-Obtain cooperating teacher's consent form (the teacher keeps one copy).
-Obtain parental consent form (the parents keep one copy).
-Answer questions on the blog

Week 3 to 4:
-Interview with the cooperating teacher (using the guiding questions provided)
-Work closely with the cooperating teacher to align the writing activity with the curriculum.
-Work closely with the cooperating teacher to conduct evaluation using the rubrics (writing rubric, and SOLOM Matrix), and identify intervention strategies

-Document challenges you have encountered this week (e.g. from cooperating teacher, parent, student, or school administration...)

Week 5:
-Transcribe interview summary and post it unto your blog
-Start the observation and the writing activity
-Observe and document the target student's learning performance, learning motivation, and how they develop ideas in writing
-Document your observation and reflection on your blog

-Document challenges you have encountered this week (e.g. from cooperating teacher, parent, student, or school administration...)