Post 1:Principles for Fair Student Assessment Practices for Education in Canada
"Assessment methods should be suited to the backgrounds and prior experiences of students. Assessment methods should be free from bias brought about by student factors extraneous to the purpose of the assessment. Possible factors to consider include culture, developmental stage, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic background, language, special interests, and special needs. Students' success in answering questions on a test or in an oral quiz, for example, should not be dependent upon prior cultural knowledge, such as understanding an allusion to a cultural tradition or value, unless such knowledge falls 5 within the content domain being assessed. All students should be given the same opportunity to display their strengths"
All that I …show more content…
For instance, how to use the scantron and how to fill in properly, how to analyze the question so that they can make educated guesses when they don't know the answer. Such skills that would be easy for the regular students because they are used to it would be unknown to the majority of the ELL students which would be an unfair disadvantage to them.
Post 3: Visual Scaffolding
"Although visual scaffolding requires some planning, there are abundant resources for visuals and it's an extremely powerful tool for English learners."
Because of the internet, it's gotten easy to use visual aids and I think that incorporating visual aids would be an effective way to teach students so that they have something that would help them connect to what to is being taught and what they should learn. For instance, an ELL student might find it to connect what the teacher is easier to a picture than leaving them alone to figure it out by themselves, which might or might not be what the teacher was
"Assessment methods should be suited to the backgrounds and prior experiences of students. Assessment methods should be free from bias brought about by student factors extraneous to the purpose of the assessment. Possible factors to consider include culture, developmental stage, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic background, language, special interests, and special needs. Students' success in answering questions on a test or in an oral quiz, for example, should not be dependent upon prior cultural knowledge, such as understanding an allusion to a cultural tradition or value, unless such knowledge falls 5 within the content domain being assessed. All students should be given the same opportunity to display their strengths"
All that I …show more content…
For instance, how to use the scantron and how to fill in properly, how to analyze the question so that they can make educated guesses when they don't know the answer. Such skills that would be easy for the regular students because they are used to it would be unknown to the majority of the ELL students which would be an unfair disadvantage to them.
Post 3: Visual Scaffolding
"Although visual scaffolding requires some planning, there are abundant resources for visuals and it's an extremely powerful tool for English learners."
Because of the internet, it's gotten easy to use visual aids and I think that incorporating visual aids would be an effective way to teach students so that they have something that would help them connect to what to is being taught and what they should learn. For instance, an ELL student might find it to connect what the teacher is easier to a picture than leaving them alone to figure it out by themselves, which might or might not be what the teacher was