Announcing MIDTESOL 2020 Student Essay Contests

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MIDTESOL is pleased to invite its members to announce and submit student essays for the Best K-12 ELL Student Essay Award and the Best Adult ELL Student Essay Award. Topics reflect this year’s Fall 2020 conference theme: “Community at a Crossroads: The Right to Education”. Eligibility Best K-12 ELL Essay Award – The student must…

Accurate Assessment of English Learners (PDF)

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by Shelley Fairbairn Assessing English learners is a task fraught with complexity; how can we elicit demonstrations of content knowledge and skills from students who are still learning English? This topic has received a lot of attention in the research literature and teachers need access to this critical information. To this end, the “Accurate Assessment…