Beyond Teaching to the Test: Rethinking Accountability and Assessment for Engl

Beyond ""Teaching to the Test by Betsy Gilliland, Shannon Pella

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Description The word accountability is everywhere in education today, but it means different things to different people. Speaking directly to teachers who work closely with English language learners, Betsy Gilliland and Shannon Pella examine essential questions in this age of accountability.

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The word accountability is everywhere in education today, but it means different things to different people. Speaking directly to teachers who work closely with English language learners, Betsy Gilliland and Shannon Pella examine essential questions in this age of accountability: What kind of accountability measures truly demonstrate multilingual students' learning? How do these measures reflect the planning and teaching that teachers do to help their students grow?Gilliland and Pella take readers into the classrooms of middle and high school teachers to illustrate accountability practices that exemplify the principles outlined in the NCTE Position Paper on the Role of English Teachers in Educating English Language Learners (ELLs). What does accountability mean when teaching ELLs? In one sense, teacher support of student performance on standardized tests is accountability to grade-level standards. More important, however, teachers and schools are also accountable to the students through equitable access to the curriculum and real-world literacy.This book gives teachers the background and strategies to make their teaching and support equitable for ELLs. Examining how teachers can support learners' reading, writing, and academic language development, and illustrated with examples of real teachers at work, the authors explain teaching for accountability, formative and summative assessment, and preparation for high-stakes testing, as well as provide suggestions for teaching, guiding questions for discussion, and resource recommendations.

Author Biography

Betsy Gilliland is an associate professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii Mnoa, where she teaches courses on second language writing, teacher research, and qualitative research methods to undergraduate and graduate students. Co-editor of the Journal of Response to Writing, she was chair of the TESOL Second Language Writing Interest Section (2019-2020) and has published in TESOL Journal, Journal of Second Language Writing, and ELT Journal, among others. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad de Atacama (Chile) in 2018.

Details ISBN 0814102948 ISBN-13 9780814102947 Title Beyond ""Teaching to the Test Author Betsy Gilliland, Shannon Pella Format Paperback Year 2017 Pages 167 Publisher National Council of Teachers of English GE_Item_ID:139174711; About Us

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