With the changes in our current curriculum, there have been many conversations around creating consistent understanding of instruction and assessment in all ELA courses, but especially in English Studies 12.
This one page document summarizes some values statements as discussed by a group on ELA teachers from across the district in 2019.
The Big Ideas in all ELA curricula stress the importance of text being socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed. Worldviews and perspectives from around the world and locally are important parts of ELA competencies.
Here are some of the ways to assess your learners both formatively and summatively in ELA and EFP courses.
UDL is all about providing options and choices for your students so that you can eliminate barriers and give each student an opportunity to succeed both in and outside of school.
How can create a unique grading system that gives students voice, choice and autonomy? How can we transform our grading practices to actually help students learn?
This UDL Grading Flowchart designed by Novak Education can help guide you through your UDL grading process.
We help students to develop literacy in English so that they can succeed in both the social and academic environment of the classroom. We focus on inclusive practices that honour cultural identity and social and emotional growth. Tier One support for ELLS may include:
Single point rubrics are a great way to simplify criteria into just a single column while encouraging students to engage in target expectations. They also allow for high quality feedback that is personalized and focused, rather than highlighted from a pick list that was prescribed prior to the student demonstration o f learning.
Include only guidance on and descriptions of mastery, or target expectations.
include categories that align with the competencies that the learning task is assessing.
