the guiding standards for each subject and grade level taught in Texas public schools

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)

College and Career-Readiness Standards (CCRS)

the ELL student expectations and proficiency level (beginning, intermediate, advanced, advanced high) descriptors in the areas of reading, writing, listening, and speaking

English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

College and Career-Readiness Standards (CCRS)

a plan for the order and depth of skills to be taught throughout the year. Scope refers to the topics to be covered and how deeply to cover them, while the sequence describes the order in which the topics are to be taught.

Professional Learning Community (PLC)

The Texas-mandated language proficiency assessment, designed to evaluate the English language development of limited English proficiency (LEP) learners.

Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS)

English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

A high school's STAR End of Course (EOC) test scores in English have been declining for the past two years. The school's principal meets with the English faculty to begin discussions for possible strategies to improve curriculum and instruction in English. The principal can best ensure that his efforts will be successful by taking which of the following first steps?

Identify problematic areas of student performance on the English EOC and plan specific objectives to address the learning needs.

Compare the English EOC performance of students at the high school with that of students at other similar school districts.

Principal requests the district's central office personnel to conduct observations of English classes at the high school.

Determine why there has been significant turnover in the English department in the last two years.

Instructional leadership is a significant factor in facilitating, improving, and promoting the academic progress of students. All of the following, except for one statement, are effective ways principals use to help at-risk students to succeed academically. Please identify that one statement.

Analyze the TAPR report system for accuracy of data that measures the effectiveness of curriculum.

Support teachers' instructional methods.

Provide feedback on instructional methods and techniques.

Use data and faculty input to determine staff development.

Jorge Gonzales has just been named the principal of Forever Elementary which currently holds an Improvement Required accountability rating. The superintendent has shared with Mr. Gonzales that in his opinion teachers are not using assessments properly. The teachers share with Mr. Gonzales that they are surprised each year with the results of the statewide mandated tests. Which of the following strategies for assessment should Mr. Gonzales consider first when addressing this problem?

Work with the teachers on developing benchmark tests and other formative assessments that the teachers can use throughout the year to determine learning and guide instruction.

Send the grade level chairmen to staff development on disaggregating the state mandated test results.

Implement looping so that the teachers will move up with their class in order to take advantage of the data that they received from the statewide mandated tests.

Develop a spread sheet of the data from the statewide mandated test from the previous year and use that data to develop a more appropriate scope and sequence.

The tenth-grade math teachers at Rosedale High School want to revise the curriculum to better reflect state standards. The Math Department Chair submits a proposal to the principal requesting planning time to complete this revision process. Which of the following factors should the principal give the highest priority when considering this request?

Will the resulting product be aligned with campus goals and priorities?

Can this work be done without additional expense to the school?

Are adequate substitutes available for the teachers' classes?

Does the central office support this request?

An ideographic language is written in the following manner:

with graphic symbols that represent the concept.

with pictographs that represent the sounds used in speech.

with words to represent a concept.

with words and pictures to represent the message.

Some middle school ESL students are struggling with the current assignment on word order. The teacher explains again that there are certain rules in English that must be applied. She points out verb endings and other relevant information to one group more than once. However, they continue to fall into incorrect patterns. Why might the students be having such a hard time?

They are having a conflict with the rules from their first language

They are not listening attentively

They do not want to work in this group

An ESL teacher is teaching her students a lesson on prepositions. She gives the students a collection of items and gives directions like "Put the ball on top of the box" or "Put the ball in the box." What is the main benefit of a lesson like this?

Using realia makes the learning process more memorable for the student.

Incorporating touch into the learning process helps with short-term memory.

Using objects from real life lowers the affective filter in the classroom.

Visual learners benefit from manipulating real objects.

Mrs. Ling, a sixth-grade English teacher, is introducing an instructional assignment to promote her students' writing skills. Before she provides the writing assignment, she asks each student to think of a person they view as a role model and then list five characteristics they like about their role model. Once each student has completed the activity, she instructs her students to construct a three-paragraph essay about what makes a good role model. Which of the following is the most beneficial reason for the teacher to ask each student to list five characteristics of their role model?

It allows the teacher to identify a foundation to help the students begin their writing activity.

It allows each student to write about something they want to write about.

It promotes students' creativity outside the structure of a classroom activity.

It stimulates the students' creativity and gives them a beginning outline for their essay.

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A data-review process focused on studying individual questions on an assessment. It allows educators to evaluate the quality of each question and facilitates data dsiaggregation to measure student performance at different levels, determine student misconceptions, and plan interventions.

A short formative assessment given by a teacher after completing a lesson to determine e degree to which students have learned the material taught in the lesson.

A student who is learning the English language in addition to is or her native language. Also referred to on the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR, while EL is referred to in Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Both terms are used in assessment questions to reference the same student group.

the guiding standards for each subject and grade level taught in Texas public schools

the ELL student expectations and proficiency level (beginning, intermediate, advanced, advanced high) descriptors in the areas of reading, writing, listening, and speaking

Example: Students will be able to identify the two things being compared in a simile.

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