SCED 3420 - Assessment for ESL Education (ALCI)

Institution:

Utah Tech University

Subject:

Secondary Education

Description:

This course partially fulfills the requirement for ESL Endorsement. This course is designed to further develop competencies in current assessment practices in both ESL and mainstream education. Teacher candidates will learn about implementing assessments, and making them useful, meaningful and equitable. Teacher candidates will have the opportunity to explore and evaluate the relationship between teaching and assessment, with emphasis on reviewing multiple forms of assessment to provide feedback to learners and differentiate instruction. Teacher candidates will also implement lesson planning skills with the concept of Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP). This course is designated as an Active Learning Cultural Immersion (ALCI) course. Students have a unique opportunity to learn another culture as part of the learning objectives of this course. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Develop awareness of interdependent relationship between teaching and assessments. 2. Gain subject matter knowledge of authentic assessment through development of authentic instructional tasks and tests that reflect the contextual factors of the classroom. 3. Analyze and synthesize assessment results to modify instruction for student learning. 4. Gain awareness of teachable test taking skills and metacognitive strategies helpful in studying for and taking classroom and standardized tests. 5. Develop understanding of lesson plans based on the principles of SIOP. Prerequisites: SCED 3410 (Grade C or higher); Instructor permission. FA, SP

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.utahtech.edu/

Phone Number:

(435) 652-7500

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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