Data Meeting #3 Steps to Completion

TABLE I
Team #/members: Group #1, Nawana Coyle
Exploratory Question: What strategies should be implemented to overcome the language difficulties
to ensure that LEP students pass tests and meet all the requirements for graduation?
Prioritize Learning
Gaps

Prioritize Instructional Gaps

Research

# List

5 Oral
assessme
nts

5 Written
assessme
nts

Individu
al, small
group or
large
group
Large
group

# List

Individu
al

5 Administer
written tests
to evaluate
the students
ability to write
and
comprehend.

5 Customizing
course
planning with
students with
diversity

Individu
al, small
group or
large
group
Large
group

Individu
al

Article: Strategies
for Closing the
Achievement
Gaps. Retrieved
from
http://www.nea.or
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Article: Learning
Games for Kids.
Retrieved from
http://www.learni
nggamesforkids.c
om/uncategorized
/5-ways-toimprove-learning-

Implementation Tip

- Design projects that

encourage student
presentation and the
mastering of the English
language.
- Pair LEP students with
non-LEP students
- Promote tutoring
services.
- Introduce games which
teaches new words or
ability to construct
sentences correctly.
- Utilize educational
software for language
improvement.
- Utilize virtual learning

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4 Grammar
and
spelling
assessme
nts

Individu
al

4
3
3

4 Conduct
strategies to
introduce
practices to
improve
correct
spelling and
grammar
skills.
4
3
3

Individu
al

Article: Learning
Gap. Retrieved
from
http://edglossary.
org/learning-gap/

tools in classrooms to
discuss the writing
techniques.
- Introduce 10 new words
a week and assessing the
students ability to
memorize spellings.
- Practice the
construction of sentences
by story making.

TABLE II
Team #/members: Team 1, Nawana Coyle
Exploratory Question: What strategies should be implemented to overcome the language difficulties to
ensure that LEP students pass tests and meet all the requirements for graduation?
Instruction associated with
learning/instructional gap
Oral presentation activities

Writing and
comprehension activities

SMART Target Learning Goal

I will improve LEP students
conversational skills within 8 weeks by
engaging them in projects which require
presentation and pairing them up with
non-LEP students for constant practice
of the language.
I will improve LEP students writing and
comprehension skills within 10 weeks by
engaging them in story writing projects,
PowerPoint presentations and writing
assessments.

Evaluation Metric
(Assessment Mechanism)
I will use Oral Telling and ETS
standards for student evaluation.

I will use the English Language

Arts standards to evaluate the
student progression.

Spelling and grammar

activities

I will improve the students spelling and

grammar skills within 8 weeks by
administering assessments and
introducing new words and grammar
rules.

I will use the English Language

Arts standards to evaluate the
student progression.