:Daniel’s Teaching Blogfolio

Just two days away from the start of my vacation and the call for proposals arrives in my e-mail this morning. Since I won’t be thinking much about it for the next seven weeks, I suppose I could mull over a possible proposal for the next two days. Fortunately I’ve got until November to submit.

Today I’m thinking about a workshop on using the San Diego Quick Assessment in an ELT environment. Since the tool wasn’t conceived for English language learners, I’ll have to come up with a justification for the application. Whether or not others agree, I think that ELT’s need an easy and FREE assessment device that we can use to quickly estimate our student’s reading level in English in order to help us guide the development of their reading skills.

In my workshop, I would explain what the SDQA is, why I chose it and how it works. The rest of the time participants would listen to student examples and score them, then discuss the results.

I’ll be experimenting with the SDQA more in the Fall and may find that I don’t want to pursue this any further but for now, that’s the direction I’m heading for this conference.

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