Standard 4.b is from my graduate class ESC 727 at Lehman College. The purpose of this assignment was for us to do a child study on one of our current student. The project asked that we gathered pertinent information about the student in regards to their ELL status, their family background, how the school’s overall snapshot informs how I teach this current student, how it influences their behavior towards school, and learning a new language; and how do I use this information to guide my teaching.
The artifact addresses that I am able “to use a variety of standards-based language proficiency instrument to show language growth and to inform my instruction.” In order to assess language growth, I use the scores from the yearly NYSESLAT, i-Ready and DRP to assess the students language needs and growth.
This artifact is relevant to Standard 4.b because it allowed me to focus and study one child from my class, instead of focusing on all my students. Being able to focus on this one student, I was able to use the student score on the previous year’s NYSESLAT to plan on how I would meet this child’s linguistic needs, and better prepare them for the upcoming NYSESLAT. Additionally, I was able to use the child’s i-Ready and DRP data to assign tailored lessons for this student to complete twice a week. Also, the score from i-Ready determined what topics to focus on with this child whenever we conferenced.
This artifact contributed to my professional, understanding, skills, and disposition by allowing me to use a variety of standard-based language proficiency instruments to show language growth and plan instruction for this particular child, and my other students. Lastly, completing this artifact impacted the student and their learning because the student NYSESLAT score improved that year, and so did some of the student reading comprehension skills (main idea, Point of View, Inference, and Citing Text Evidence).
