IOT 2 - English Language Learning (PreK -12) Written Capstone

Institution:

Western Governors University

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This job aid has been designed to give you an overview of all of the tasks found in the Capstone Project Written Report, and to help guide you through the submissions process. If you have any questions, please visit the Graduate Capstone Community - MAME K-6, MAELL, MAES & M.Ed. 2010. There you may interact with the Community Facilitator if you have additional questions. You may also seek additional guidance from the evaluator once you have begun to submit tasks and an evaluator has been assigned. This document is for those in the MA ELL program, and has been designed to help give you some guidance as to potential Capstone Project topics. Typically, the Capstone Project involves the design, development, and delivery of an at least 2 week long original, standards-based curriculum unit. The unit should be focused on solving an identified educational problem or need. In the case that you do not have access to any ELL students to teach or if your school or district has few ELL resources to work with, this document provides a few potential ideas for alternate topics. Your research design for the project may take the form of action research, a case study, evaluation study, or other research types. It may be quantitative in nature, qualitative; or a combination of both in a mixed methods study. It may include doing a needs analysis and suggesting an educational plan based on the views of those involved and results of the data gathered, along with ways to evaluate the effectiveness of the plan of a new program when implemented. In the case that you are unable to work directly with an ELL classroom, or with ELL students who volunteer to engage your curriculum, you may consider these alternate research approaches: Conduct research in your school or community by investigating one or more of the following: current conditions; ELL teaching practices or lack thereof; current resources for teaching ELLs or lack thereof; current attitudes and beliefs (by teachers, administrators, parents, or students) that may hinder progress of ELLs in a given area, for example. Conduct research by gathering and analyzing data to answer requests such as: how to improve or begin an ELL program for a given purpose, encourage more parent educational participation with their ELL children, or how to prepare an ELL-related policy document. Conduct research to discover the level of knowledge in ELL participants and their families or neighborhoods and how teachers and administrations can apply this information in beneficial ways. Conduct research to gather information for a proposal based on the needs and wants of the community or school for a plan that answers the need for a given program to be implemented.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wgu.edu

Phone Number:

(801) 274-3280

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Other academic year

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