Using Formative Assessments to Accelerate the Academic Achievement of English Learners

Presenters

Robert Anderson (Primary)

Senior Assessment Specialist
WestEd

Margaret Heritage

Assistant Director for Professional Development
National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA

Description

This webinar will present key ideas about the use of formative assessment with English Learners to increase their academic achievement. Robert Anderson, Senior Assessment Specialist at WestEd, will focus on the systemic use of formative assessment to enhance learning opportunities for English Learners. Margaret Heritage, Assistant Director for Professional Development at the National Center for Research Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA, will draw from her new book, Formative Assessment for Literacy: Building Reading and Academic Language Across the Curriculum, to discuss ways in which formative assessment can assist teachers working with English Learners to develop skills in academic language.

NCLB Accountability Requirements for English Learners

Understanding How to Navigate the Map of Standards for English Learners (Introductory)

Understanding How to Use the Essential ELD Standards for Teaching and Assessment (Intermediate)

Lessons From California's Public Schools Accountability Act

English Learners and the Language Arts

English Learners and the Language Arts (Follow-up Presentation)

Evaluating English Learner (EL) Services & Results for Accountability & Instructional Improvement, Part 1

Assessment and Accountability: Six Habits of a Highly Effective District

Evaluating English Learner Services & Results for Accountability & Instructional Improvement, Part 2

Teaching Science: How to Really Give Universal Access to English Learners

Using Formative Assessments to Improve the Achievement of All Students: Key Policy Questions and Practical Decisions (Parts I & II)

Double the Work: Challenges and Solutions to Acquiring Language and Academic Literacy for Adolescent ELLs (Research from CREATE)

Findings from the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth (Research from CREATE)

New Tools to Make Benchmark Analysis Free and Painless

Ideas in Action: Central Union High School

Data Use and Teacher Collaboration: One School’s Success Story

Building Oral Language into the Basal (Research from CREATE)

RTI Process Steps: A Small Elementary School's Approach to Implementation

RTI in a Secondary School Setting: Riverbank High School Story

English Learners and the Language Arts

Taking Center Stage—Act II : Building Effective Programs for English Learners in the Middle Grades

English Learner Literacy Development through Formative Assessment of Oral Language

Making Standards-based Lessons Understandable for English Learners: The SIOP Model (Encore Presentation)

Doing What Works: Teaching Elementary-School English Learners

Building Oral Language into Content Area Instruction (Research from CREATE)

What the Research Does—and Does Not—Say About Teaching English Language Learners

English Learners in Secondary Mathematics: Rigor and Excellence

Quality Teaching for English Learners: High Challenge and High Support

Formative Assessment: Improving Teaching and Learning

Closing the Learning Gap: Steps That Work

Response to Intervention: Online Professional Development Modules and Resources for Classroom Assessment

Monitoring Student Academic Progress Throughout the School Year: Why, When, and How?

Signal Hill Elementary School: A Road to Results

Cesar E. Chavez High School: High Expectations, Empowerment, and Excellence

Recommendations for Addressing the Needs of English Language Learners: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

English Learners and the Language Arts (Encore Presentation)

Differentiated Tools and Strategies to Support RTI in Language Arts/Social Studies