EP221 — Formative Assessment for ELL Students: How to Know If They Are Actually Getting It

A few weeks into the school year most ELL teachers hit the same moment. A student is participating, completing tasks, sitting through the lesson — and you genuinely do not know if anything is landing. Today's episode gives you a clear, practical framework for finding out — and five strategies that take five minutes or less.

In this episode you will learn:

The two opposite assessment mistakes ELL teachers make — and why both lead to the same problemThe two-lens framework: why content understanding and language production must be assessed separatelyWhy the same student needs completely different instruction depending on which lens reveals the gapFive formative assessment strategies that work for every language levelHow to turn partner talk into real-time data collection at zero extra costThe mid-lesson one-sentence writing check that changes what you do in the next five minutes — not next weekHow to separate language ability from content understanding with one simple adjustment

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