Announcements+and+Meeting+Notes

Spring 2012 We have decided to pilot a VoiceThread assessment of ESL 182LS SLO's using Vicki's class. We will meet next fall to discuss the results and finalize plans for assessing all of the L/S classes using VoiceThread. See the sample VoiceThread below.

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10/2011 Update: The Flip website is going away as a result of the sale of Flip. We will need to discuss an alternative method for assessing our SLO's.

4/24/2011 We are working on completing our training for how to use the Flip cameras ordered, and preparing to video tape our final presentations. Please see Vicki if you would like help with the Flips. After the recordings are complete, they will be posted on the Flip website for you to review and assess using our rubrics.

3/2/10 Listening/Speaking Coordination Meeting Attendees: Vicki Curtis, Louise Baczuk, Joyce Podevyn We reviewed, discussed, and revised Joyce’s oral presentation rubrics for ESL 181, 182, and 183 L/S. It was decided that we will use the revised rubrics as a metric for assessing end of level competence. All the listening/speaking instructors will pilot the rubric this semester to grade their final speaking presentations. To be considered minimally competent, students must obtain a passing score for 4 out of 5 of the rubric categories under the Passing column. Instructors teaching the same levels will coordinate their final speaking assignments as much as possible. Instructors are asked to use the Draft Level Oral Outcomes Rubrics as a standard to strive for by designing oral presentation tasks throughout the semester that will build the students’ skills towards that end. It is hoped that we will gain information as to how to better ensure that our students have the minimal speaking skills necessary to be successful in the next level. At the end of the semester, we will evaluate the success of the rubric and make any necessary revisions. We will also be requesting funds from the Basic Skills Initiative to purchase several small Flip type video cameras to film student presentations for a norming session. The next meeting will be on Tuesday April 6th at 1:30 in the former Division office. We will begin discussing the development of a 184L/S course.

June 2009

We met in June to begin discussion of how to evaluate the learning outcomes of each level of the listening/speaking courses. We reviewed several speaking rubrics, and talked about making our own. We want to develop the rubric and then the process of how to use it. Will there be a final common speaking assignment across all sections of each level? When and how will it be administered? Who will rate the assignment? How much will it count towards the final grade of the course? We also want to repeat this process for the listening outcomes. Additionally we decided to add the reading/writing courses to this Wiki and attempt to create an easy access for all instructors to course outlines, syllabi, sample assignments, holistically scored assignments, useful instructional ESL links and tools, discussion of ongoing work, and a place to ask and get answers to questions about teaching ESL at Ohlone. Another topic that came up was how we schedule our ESL courses. There was a desire, particularly in this climate of drastically reduced funds, to be more systematic and predictable in how we schedule our classes. Connie and I met with Mikelyn following the meeting to begin this discussion. This will need to be an ongoing process. Connie is going to try to plan another meeting before school begins to discuss similar topics related to the reading and writing classes.