1. Principals’ Conference CFN 204
Tracking ELL Student Progress
Shirley Rouse-Bey
Achievement Coach

2. Tracking Student Progress
By an individual student
By percentages of students in a class or that an ESL teacher services
By grade
By school-wide trends

3. Progress Monitoring Progress Monitoring (PM) is conducted
frequently and is designed to:
– Determine whether students are benefitting
appropriately from an instructional program
– Identify students who are not demonstrating
adequate progress
– Build more effective programs for the children
who are not benefitting appropriately.
– Compare the effectiveness of different forms of
instruction, and design more effective, individualized instructional programs.

4. Content area logs
Content area logs are designed to encourage the use of metacognitive strategies when students read expository text. Entries can be made on a form with these two headings: What I Understood/What I Didn't Understand (ideas or vocabulary).
What I understand/What I now understand

5. Reading response logs
Reading response logs are used for students' written responses or reactions to a piece of literature. Students may respond to questions--some generic, some specific to the literature--that encourage critical thinking, or they may copy a brief text on one side of the page and write their reflections on the text on the other side.
Beginning ESL students often experience success when an expository writing assignment is controlled or structured. The teacher can guide students through a pre-writing stage, which includes discussion, brainstorming, webbing, outlining, and so on. The results of pre-writing, as well as the independently written product, can be assessed.

6. Student writing
Student writing is often motivated by content themes. Narrative stories from characters' perspectives (selected from ReadyGen or your chosen curriculum) would be valuable inclusions in a student's writing portfolio.

7. Dialogue journals
Dialogue journals provide a means of interactive, ongoing correspondence between students and teachers. Students determine the choice of topics and participate at their level of English language proficiency. Beginners can draw pictures that can be labeled by the teacher.

8. Audio and video cassettes
Audio and video cassettes can be made of student oral readings, presentations, dramatics, interviews, or conferences (with teacher or peers).

9. Portfolios
Portfolios are used to collect samples of student work over time to track student development. Tierney, Carter, and Desai (1991) suggest that, among other things, teachers do the following:
maintain anecdotal records from their reviews of portfolios and from regularly scheduled conferences with students about the work in their portfolios;
keep checklists that link portfolio work with criteria that they consider integral to the type of work being collected;

10. ESL Proficiency Standards
Use grade level ESL proficiency standards and/or CCLS to plot student achievement.
New Language Arts Progressions(draft) and Home Language Arts Progressions(draft).
Whatever methods teachers choose, they should reflect with students on their work, to develop students' ability to critique their own progress.

11. Portfolio
The following types of materials can be included in a portfolio:
Audio- and videotaped recordings of readings or oral presentations.
Writing samples such as dialogue journal entries, book reports, writing assignments (drafts or final copies), reading log entries, or other writing projects.
Art work such as pictures or drawings, and graphs and charts.

12. Rubrics
 RubiStar and Teach4Learning. These are great free resources for building custom rubrics that you can just save and attach.

13. Create Free Google Forms

14. ELL Assessment Kits
ELL Assessment Kit – Houghton Mifflin
DRA2 – Pearson
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English Benchmark Assessments- Santillana USA

15. Department of Education Resource
ELL Periodic Assessment (optional 2x a year)
May be beneficial for beginners/newcomers in grades 3-12
Does not include Speaking

16. Video-Tracking Student Progress

17. The AMAO Tool
The AMAO Tool was recently updated to reflect changes in the RESI report which is downloaded from ATS.  In addition, the tool now includes
More data on the summary report page (tab 2)
A list of the at-risk factors which prints at the bottom of tab 2
To download the AMAO Tool Version 6.0, go to

18. Thank You!!!
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