Week 2 Reader Response

Reader Response on the two articles read: Organizing instruction for struggling readers in tutorial settings & Linguistically responsive teacher education: Preparing classroom teachers to teach English Language Learners

Week 1 Project Preparation and Timeline

Project timeline

Week 1:

• Project overview

Week 2:

• Discuss with cooperating teachers to identify target ELL student
• Discuss how to proceed with or obtain student assessment information
• Discuss how timeline for your project
• Obtain cooperating teacher's consent form (the teacher keeps one copy).
• Obtain parental consent form (the parents keep one copy).
• Create your own blog and answer questions on the blog

Week 3 to 4:

• Interview with the cooperating teacher (using the guiding questionsprovided)
• Work closely with the cooperating teacher to align the writing activity with the curriculum.
• Work closely with the cooperating teacher to conduct evaluation using the rubrics (writing rubric, and SOLOM Matrix), and identify intervention strategies
• Document challenges you have encountered this week (e.g. from cooperating teacher, parent, student, or school administration...)

Week 5:

• Transcribe interview summary and post it unto your blog
• Start the observation and the writing activity
• Observe and document the target student's learning performance, learning motivation, and how they develop ideas in writing
• Document your observation and reflection on your blog
• Document challenges you have encountered this week (e.g. from cooperating teacher, parent, student, or school administration...)

Week 6-10

• Work with cooperating teacher to mentor ELL