Education riculum- based forms of assessment, issues in the assessment of ELLs, and assessment of academic content knowledge. As teacher candidates, students will have opportunities to examine critically and practice administering assessment tools used in current educational contexts. Students will learn to identify language needs and how to differentiate them from developmental needs. This course requires 20 field experience hours in an ESL and/or bilingual P-12 classroom. Prerequisites: TEL 204, TEL 212, TEL 317 and TEL 319.
support the development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in social and academic contexts. Teacher candidates also will implement their action plans developed in TEL 448 to collect classroom data, analyze critically their own bilingual and ESL instructional practices, and report findings that inform their future teaching of language learners. This course requires 30 field experience hours in an ESL and/or bilingual P-12 classroom. Prerequisite: TEL 448.
TEL 448 Inquiry and Application of Bilingual Methods I .50 credit This course is the first part of a two-course sequence in the inquiry and application of bilingual and ESL methods. In TEL 448, teacher candidates will design an action research proposal, which they will implement in TEL 449. The proposal will address how they will study their own teaching of bilingual and ESL methodologies that support the development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in social and academic contexts. In preparation for conducting their action research in TEL 449, teacher candidates in TEL 448 will learn how to use action research methods to collect data on teaching practices and for research projects. They also will develop a situated and transformative action plan for future teaching that is anchored in sociocultural views of learning. Prerequisites: TEL 204, TEL 212, TEL 319, TEL 317 and TEL 439. TEL 449 Inquiry and Application of Bilingual Methods II .25 credit This course is the second part of a two-course sequence in the inquiry and application of bilingual and ESL methods. Students will implement an action research proposal of teacher inquiry that they developed in TEL 448. Students will study their own teaching of bilingual and ESL methodologies that
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