SLT Program SLO Alignment

Use informed decision making to function effectively in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.

Use communication skills to work effectively with students, their families, school administrators, teachers, staff, and other related personnel.

Use instructional and behavioral management strategies to facilitate a positive learning environment for students.

Demonstrate professionalism and ethical practices in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.

Demonstrate knowledge and skills specific to the instruction and support of ELL students in a variety of settings.

Demonstrate an ability to effectively facilitate the language development of students based on individual language needs.

Second Language Teaching (SLT) Program

Program and Course-level Student Learning Outcome (SLO) Assessment

Program and Course-level Alignments

Home: SLT 102 - SLT 103 - SLT 20B2 - SLT 203B - SLT 290 - CAPs - CLRs - CLR Archives

Upon successful completion of all SLT Program courses, students should be able to:

Use informed decision making to function effectively in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.
Use communication skills to work effectively with students, their families, school administrators, teachers, staff, and other related personnel.
Use instructional and behavioral management strategies to facilitate a positive learning environment for students.
Demonstrate professionalism and ethical practices in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.
Demonstrate knowledge and skills specific to the instruction and support of ELL students in a variety of settings.
Demonstrate an ability to effectively facilitate the language development of students based on individual language needs.

SLT Program SLO Course Grid
The level to which the SLO is addressed in the course: 0 = not addressed; 1= introduced ("freshman level"); 2 = developed ("sophomore level")

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Course Competency/ SLO Alignment Grid for SLT 102: Language Learning

SLOs 4 Competencies 6	Use informed decision making to function effectively in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.	Use communication skills to work effectively with students, their families, school administrators, teachers, staff, and other related personnel.	Use instructional and behavioral management strategies to facilitate a positive learning environment for students.	Demonstrate professionalism and ethical practices in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.	Demonstrate knowledge and skills specific to the instruction and support of ELL students in a variety of settings.	Demonstrate an ability to effectively facilitate the language development of students based on individual language needs.
Describe the language development cycle, including each stage.					√
Describe the various language learning frameworks commonly found in educational settings.					√
Describe the various motivational and socio-cultural characteristics of language learners.					√
Create scenarios of various language learning situations.					√
Complete an ethnographic study of a language learner including: Observation Interview Artifact collection Secondary research Data analysis Data reporting					√

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Course Competency/ SLO Alignment Grid for SLT 103: Language Teaching

SLOs 4 Competencies 6	Use informed decision making to function effectively in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.	Use communication skills to work effectively with students, their families, school administrators, teachers, staff, and other related personnel.	Use instructional and behavioral management strategies to facilitate a positive learning environment for students.	Demonstrate professionalism and ethical practices in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.	Demonstrate knowledge and skills specific to the instruction and support of ELL students in a variety of settings.	Demonstrate an ability to effectively facilitate the language development of students based on individual language needs.
Describe language teaching in the context of the language development cycle, including each stage.					√
Describe the various language teaching frameworks commonly found in educational settings.					√
Describe how the various motivational and socio-cultural characteristics of language learners can influence their teaching.				√	√
Describe their own definitions of second language pedagogy.				√	√
Complete an ethnographic study of a language teacher including: Observation Interview Artifact collection Secondary research Data analysis Data reporting				√	√

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Course Competency/ SLO Alignment Grid for SLT 202B: Concepts and Issues in SLT - Language Skills

SLOs 4 Competencies 6	Use informed decision making to function effectively in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.	Use communication skills to work effectively with students, their families, school administrators, teachers, staff, and other related personnel.	Use instructional and behavioral management strategies to facilitate a positive learning environment for students.	Demonstrate professionalism and ethical practices in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.	Demonstrate knowledge and skills specific to the instruction and support of ELL students in a variety of settings.	Demonstrate an ability to effectively facilitate the language development of students based on individual language needs.
Describe language skills from various perspectives.					√
Discuss concepts and issues associated with the instruction of language skills in various classroom settings.				√	√
Create and implement lesson plans, activities, and materials that are appropriate for developing language skills in various classroom settings.	√	√	√	√	√	√
Compile a teaching strategies portfolio that contains lesson plans, activities, and materials for developing language skills in various classroom settings.	√	√	√	√	√	√

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Course Competency/ SLO Alignment Grid for SLT 203B: Content-Based Instruction

SLOs 4 Competencies 6	Use informed decision making to function effectively in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.	Use communication skills to work effectively with students, their families, school administrators, teachers, staff, and other related personnel.	Use instructional and behavioral management strategies to facilitate a positive learning environment for students.	Demonstrate professionalism and ethical practices in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.	Demonstrate knowledge and skills specific to the instruction and support of ELL students in a variety of settings.	Demonstrate an ability to effectively facilitate the language development of students based on individual language needs.
Describe the various language learning curricula commonly used in educational settings.					√
Describe critical issues for creating lesson plans to facilitate language development.					√
Conduct case-study research on language learners in language classrooms including: Observation Analysis Reporting		√		√	√
Create and implement content-based activities, materials and lesson plans that are appropriate for particular language learners and contexts.	√	√	√	√	√	√
Compile a teaching portfolio that contains activities, materials and lesson plans for facilitating language development.	√	√	√	√	√	√

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Course Competency/ SLO Alignment Grid for SLT 290: Second Language Assessment

SLOs 4 Competencies 6	Use informed decision making to function effectively in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.	Use communication skills to work effectively with students, their families, school administrators, teachers, staff, and other related personnel.	Use instructional and behavioral management strategies to facilitate a positive learning environment for students.	Demonstrate professionalism and ethical practices in the classroom, school, local, and professional communities.	Demonstrate knowledge and skills specific to the instruction and support of ELL students in a variety of settings.	Demonstrate an ability to effectively facilitate the language development of students based on individual language needs.
Describe language standards at the national, state and local levels.					√
Describe the various types of language assessment conducted in the content-area classroom.					√
Conduct assessments of materials that are appropriate for facilitating language development in content-area classrooms.					√
Conduct various types of survey research on language in content-area classrooms including: Educational Standards Student, Institutional and Community Needs Language Skills Peer and Self-Assessment Language Development		√		√	√
Compile a portfolio that contains materials assessments and survey research on language, including a detailed report.	√	√	√	√	√	√

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Spring 2014