Portfolio

= = Digital Portfolio for ESL for Academic Purposes __**FRAMING IT ALL OUT--**__ The digital portfolio will be used by the Student Language Learning Team (SLLT) to create a centralized location for the ELL student to demonstrate his or her continuous development of English communication skills in science and mathematics at Stearns Junior/Senior High School (JSHS). The digital portfolio will be a combination of teacher-selected and student-selected assessments with comments, reflections, and rubrics which focus on both the level of development in the content area AND of proficiency in the academic, social, and cultural use of English in the classroom. The portfolio should demonstrate the incremental gains or set-backs encountered by the ELL in his or her science and math classes. The emphasis is on recording for the SLLT how the ELL student progressed both academically and linguistically during the year, therefore, it is not expected that this digital portfolio will only be a scrapbook of the student's best work. Members of the SLLT will reflect upon and document the ELL's communicative development in speaking, listening, reading, and writing throughout the year. In addition, portfolio items will be selected that reflect the ELL's development of language used in science and math, the language used to interact with teachers and peers in the science and math classrooms, and the language of American education as a cultural system in which the ELL is proficient.

The digital portfolio will allow the greatest possible demonstration of the ELL student's annual progress because it can store print and multi-media images, audio, and video documents; scanned documents; and a creative show space which highlights the full range of communicative and academic skills. The SLLT will be able to share information across time and country borders through the beneficial use of the Internet. The SLLT will be able to control what is sharable with the world and what is kept confidential. Finally, the digital portfolio gives the ELL the ultimate ownership of his or her learning and the vantage point of being the head coach of a learning team (SLLT) composed of content-area and language teachers, guidance counselors, family members, and administration representatives who are all committed to the ELL's success while learning at Stearns JSHS. **__FORMING IT ACROSS THE YEAR--__**

 Possible items for admission to the portfolio will be added at regular and predictable times during the first 3 quarters of the school year. Teacher-selected assessments will generally be chosen during the mid-quarter and student-selected assessment will be chosen around the end of quarters 1, 2, and 3.

__**SUMMING IT ALL UP--**__

During the 4th quarter, members of the SLLT will review the submitted items and make additions or removals in order to create a balanced portfolio with items demonstrating both depth and breadth of the ELL student's achievement and proficiency in science, math, and academic communication skills. The SLLT will use the portfolio to make recommendations about course selection, ESL placement, and further needs analysis for future studies.

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