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Language learning and assessment
This essay looks at how a variety of testing items can align to the desired results put forth in a written curriculum. The educational context of an English as a foreign language classroom fosters...
Norm and Criterion-referenced tests
This essay presents two types of tests that are seen as complimentary: norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests. The former ranks students to some social norm that is absent of any con...
Educational Assessment
This essay discusses the current limitation of educational assessment in five TESOL (i.e., teaching English to students of other languages) programs. With the current push towards standardized and...
Supervision and Education
This essay discusses how supervision and leadership in education advances knowledge, skills, and dispositions through a set of assumptions and skills that empower teachers through an ongoing change...
PFLE/PFSI Assessment
November 10, 2008
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Programa de Fomento de Segunda Idioma Programa de Fomento a las Lenguas Extranjeras
Aug. 2001 – Aug. 200...
Value-added leadership
This essay takes an emergent perspective to two educational philosophies: essentialism and existentialism. Learning is considered both an epistemological and ontological process that is best drive...
Curriculum PD Action Research
This essay discusses how curriculum development, professional development, and action research are linked within an educational system. Language learning is used as an example throughout in order ...
Values and Collaboration
This essay discusses the need for values in building a culture of collaboration when building improvement processes in schools. Differences in educational philosophies that are explicit create an ...
American Culture
American Culture: Adapting to a New Way of Life.
7th Annual Academic Week May 26, 2006 UAA
Cultural Perspective
Today’s presentation looks at American culture considering two general perspectives...
Interpersonal distributed leadership behaviors: A Mexican perspective
This essay presents distributed leadership within the context of supervisory practice. Leadership as an entitlement attempts to close the ability-authority gap by providing teachers the support an...
Educational Supervison
This essay addresses instructional supervision and its function within a school. The network metaphor is used to describe the importance of connected knowledge in providing equity among all the st...
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DESCRPTION This course is the first of four courses of PFSI and the first of eight courses of PFLE. This course prepar...
Connecting Leadership
This essay begins by defining leadership and then connects leadership to community building. The community is laid out in terms of a social network that includes individual nodes and ties in depic...
Performance Tasks
Designing performance tasks as an alternative form of assessment through a backward design (UbD)
Transforming Schools
This paper looks at how transforming schools to a learning community involves all stakeholders. Administrators must establish good school-community relations in order to establish a learning commu...
Authentic Assessment Strategies and Practices
This essay discusses authentic assessment strategies and practices from both an instructional leadership and teacher viewpoint. Instructional leaders who model formative-types of reflective suppor...
Stakeholders and the Educational Process
This paper addresses how stakeholders benefit from an educational process through various forms of learning communities. Macro networks (i.e., the relationship between parents, community, and scho...
