Advanced+ELD+Pull+Out+11-7-11

Pull Out Agenda 11-7-11: **The goal of Advanced ELD is to improve students’ skills in academic English (reading, writing, and thinking) in preparation for the CAHSEE and college-prep level courses at ECV as well as entry into college courses. **
 * What is the course goal of Advanced ELD? That is, what is the point of the course and where does it fit within our larger ELD program and subsequent English courses?
 * Link to our Google Doc discussing this question.


 * Agree on the scaffolds we will put in place to help our students achieve target learning objectives and prepare students for higher-level academic courses.
 * Reading:
 * Writing:
 * Speaking:


 * Develop an assessments calendar to ensure that because we have similar learning objectives we are giving common assessments (which are provided by the Edge and developed by our PLC).
 * Agree to report student performance on those assessments on our Google Document that tracks student progress.


 * What are our weekly learning objectives? (related to our writing program and our Edge reading strategies and our grammar workbook)


 * Develop a plan for reteaching when our assessments show that our students did not reach the targeted learning objectives.
 * The Edge has this built-in to the curriculum. Students take 3 assessments on the same reading strategy for each unit of instruction. Students therefore get "retaught" the reading strategy 3 times.
 * Are all team members doing this?
 * Our writing program, following the formative assessment model, also has this built-in. Our students receive 5 tests during the unit before the final summative assessment. This means the teacher has 5 opportunities to modify instruction based on the assessment results.
 * Are all team members doing this?