Question

1. How are diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments integrated for ELLs in mainstream classrooms?

2. What are the benefits of the SIOP protocol for native English speakers as well as those for whom English is an additional language?

Answer 1

Assessment is a multi-faceted issue that has been the focus of considerable attention in education over the past decades.

1.Diagnostic assessments can be used to evaluate a learner's skills, knowledge, strengths and        areas for development in a particular subject area. It could be that your learner feels they are capable of achieving at a higher level than the diagnostic assessments determine.diagnostic assessment as testing that occurs before instruction.

Formative assessment comprises the ongoing checks that the teacher makes to determine if the students are acquiring the knowledge and skills that are the objectives of the unit. Formative assessment allows the teacher to adjust the focus of forthcoming instruction

Summative assessment is the evaluation conducted at the end of a unit to determine how well the students have learned the content and skills they have been taught. Summative assessment is often the basis for a report or grade that is conveyed to the student's parents.Integrated assessment is an interdisciplinary approach to assessment based on combining, interpreting and communicating knowledge from diverse scientific disciplines to policy in such a way that an entire cause–effect chain of a problem can be evaluated from a synoptic perspective.

2.. In countries where English is learned as a foreign language as a result of globalization and the aspirations for EU and NATO integration, in order to have better opportunities for employment, students also need to learn different professional content in English and at the same time become more fluent in it.SIOP component addresses student learning strategies, teacher scaffolded instruction, and higher order thinking skills. Some students aren’t familiar with learning strategies and benefit from receiving explicit instruction in how to use learning strategies flexibly and in combination In fact, teaching learning strategies has a long history of research supporting its efficacy.SIOP teachers capitalize on the learning strategies students already know and use in their mother tongue because those can transfer to the second language.The SIOP protocol provides a framework for guiding teachers to improve their instruction and use the kinds of practices thatwill assist these students in learning bothcontent and academic language.