4) Assessing Multilingual Learners (Facilitated Learning) _ Fall 2025

Professional Learning

SUPPORTING MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS

ASSESSING MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS

Multilingual learners (MLs) have unique needs to demonstrate their understanding and knowledge in an academic setting.   Creating assessments that provide MLs with opportunities to demonstrate their learning successfully is one of the key skills teachers of MLs need to master.  Assessments are one of the most essential tools educators use to gather data to drive best classroom instruction practices. To accurately assess MLs, teachers must identify the most appropriate tools to evaluate the reliability of assessments and create appropriate accommodations for their students.

This course will support teachers by intentionally designing, creating, and evaluating assessment tools for classroom use so that results best reflect multilingual students’ content knowledge and language ability.

Virtual Class Meetings: 10/9; 10/23 & 11/13 from 6–7:00 pm Eastern/Central/Pacific/Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time