Posted in Adult School - NMUSD, Assessments, ESL, WASC - Category B, tagged Adult Education, Assessment, testing on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
CASAS testing is coming to a site near you. Click here to view/download our second-semester Testing Calendar. Read on for additional resources to help you prepare your students for the CASAS post-test.
Posted in Assessments, ESL, Learning Communities, WASC - All Categories, WASC - Category B, tagged Professional Learning Community, common formative assessments on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Last night, our BESST site teachers met for a 40-minute PLC Power Wrap Session. One team posted their meeting summary this morning in the comment area of the Empowering a Learning Community, Transforming our World article.
Their summary includes their Smart Goals, strategies and action steps, responsibilities, timeline, and evidence of success. Read on to learn more about how this team intends to work together to [...]
Posted in Adult School - NMUSD, Assessments, Curriculum, ESL, WASC - All Categories, WASC - Category B, WASC - Category C, tagged Adult Education, Assessments, ESL, level placement on January 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In our adult ESL program, we use a variety of assessments to evaluate student learning. During the last week of the semester, our teachers and ESL students work together to review these assessments and jointly determine whether the students have met the exit criteria for their levels.
In this article, you can read about our next-level placement [...]
Posted in Adult School - NMUSD, Assessments, Learning Communities, WASC - All Categories, WASC - Category B, tagged Adult Education, Assessment, pretest, post-test, test-taking strategies, CASAS competencies, sample tests, NMUSD Adult School on October 8, 2007 | No Comments »
How do we get our students from Pretest to Post-test with success? It’s a simple scenario of Point A to Point B, right? Wrong. There’s a crucial point between pretest and post-test that we often neglect or shortchange when it comes to CASAS: teaching the CASAS competencies and test-taking strategies. This is my point today. Read on. Lead [...]
