Artifact 3.B is my Instruction Commentary from ESC 609, Internship Seminar in TESOL where I justified Implementing and Managing standards-based ESL and Content Instruction.
The artifact addresses the different strategies and techniques for developing and integrating English listening, speaking, reading and writing for a variety of social and academic purposes. Additionally, supporting ESOL students to access the core curriculum by teaching language through academic content.
The artifact demonstrates that I have met the standard because it summarizes how I have support ELL’s in accessing content and language. This was done by setting realistic content and language objective for the students to follow. In terms of content, students were provided with rigorous text that aligned to the standards, and in terms of language, students were provided with sentence stems, and talk stems to help them use academic language. Additionally, I used different scaffolded resources to help my diverse learning population to achieve both the language and content objective.
This artifact contributed to my professional understanding, skills, and dispositions in terms of proper planning. My planning was intentional in terms of the text I used, the questions I asked, the way I assessed my students, how I differentiate and scaffold for my students, and most importantly my language and content objective. My philosophy is that language should be taught in isolation, so it was hard for me to merge language and content in my lesson, henceforth, this is something that I stand to improve upon in future lessons.
Overall, completing this artifact impacted students learning because my planning was deliberate and all student was taken into consideration when I was creating the content and language objective for this lesson. In the end, the students were successful in completing the formative assessment and have shown improvement in the content and language objective. Moving forward I hope to incorporate more UBD in my planning, and consistently incorporate language objectives into all of my lessons.
