{"id":7,"date":"2016-04-11T15:57:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/826boston.org\/redesign\/?p=7"},"modified":"2017-03-15T15:33:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:33:25","slug":"post-title-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/826boston.org\/redesign\/post-title-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Reyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/826boston.org\/redesign\/post-title-here\/reyes-kenya\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/826boston.org\/redesign\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Reyes-Kenya.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1802,2700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Jennifer Waddell&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1460113976&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Jennifer Waddell Photography&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kenya Reyes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/826boston.org\/redesign\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Reyes-Kenya-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/826boston.org\/redesign\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Reyes-Kenya-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/826boston.org\/redesign\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Reyes-Kenya-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/826boston.org\/redesign\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Reyes-Kenya-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/826boston.org\/redesign\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Reyes-Kenya-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/826boston.org\/redesign\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Reyes-Kenya-64x96.jpg 64w, https:\/\/826boston.org\/redesign\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Reyes-Kenya.jpg 1802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Kenya Reyes <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Uno de los mayores problemas de las Escuelas P\u00fablicas de Boston es el bajo rendimiento acad\u00e9mico de los estudiantes latinos, demostrado en el bajo porcentaje que obtienen en las pruebas estandarizadas que les ofrece el Estado. Su rendimiento es inferior al compararlo con de los dem\u00e1s estudiantes de la ciudad. Esta diferencia en el rendimiento acad\u00e9mico entre los latinos y los otros grupos es importante y consistente a trav\u00e9s del proceso educativo- desde Kindergarten hasta 12mo grado. La mayor\u00eda de los estudiantes que est\u00e1n en el proceso de aprender ingl\u00e9s tienen diferentes niveles de rendimiento acad\u00e9mico ya que, \u00a0al no poder mostrar sus habilidades en su idioma, son evaluados injustamente. Todos los estudiantes deben ser evaluados en su nivel acad\u00e9mico y en su idioma natal para que sea justo. Tambi\u00e9n, las escuelas deben brindar apoyo a los estudiantes en su primer idioma para que sus destrezas acad\u00e9micas mejoren en su idioma natal y as\u00ed puedan transferirlas a su idioma secundario. Algunos maestros piensan que una r\u00fabrica es la mejor herramienta para evaluar a los estudiantes que est\u00e1n en el proceso de aprender ingl\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>Durante el a\u00f1o, tanto los maestros como el distrito eval\u00faan a los estudiantes sobre lo que han aprendido para observar su progreso. La mayor\u00eda de los estudiantes que est\u00e1n aprendiendo ingl\u00e9s, despu\u00e9s de un a\u00f1o, deben tomar un examen para medir su nivel de ingl\u00e9s. En el pasado, las personas ten\u00edan la oportunidad de decidir si quer\u00edan tomar las evaluaciones o no. Hoy en d\u00eda hay muchas desventajas porque los estudiantes no tienen la oportunidad de decidir esto y los ex\u00e1menes estandarizados, m\u00e1s que medir su aprovechamiento acad\u00e9mico, terminan midiendo el nivel de ingl\u00e9s que han adquirido hasta ese momento.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt of my interview with Wanda Muriel, the English as a Second Language teacher at the Margarita Mu\u00f1iz Academy about the effectiveness of assessments for English Language Learners.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F265595570&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;visual=true&#038;show_comments=true&#038;color=false&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>Kenya<\/strong>: So, what&#8217;s the purpose of standardized assessments [for English Language Learners]?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wanda<\/strong>: \u00a0So, the assessment that I give is \u00a0called the ACCESS and it&#8217;s evaluating English Learners progress in Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking and it is a national test that public school students have to take to monitor their English language development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kenya<\/strong>: In what way do you think assessment should be scored?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I think assessments should be more of a holistic thing and about how the students have progressed during their entire year, not just on one particular test. \u00a0The test that we are taking right now, the ACCESS test, is only one assessment. So, to me, it doesn&#8217;t hold as much weight as what I have done with the students all \u00a0year- round. And, how \u00a0should they be scored? \u00a0So, we use rubrics based on the learning targets and the language goals and, from there, we should monitor them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wanda<\/strong>: What topic do you think is hard to be scored for ELL students?<\/p>\n<p>I think it is hard to evaluate the listening piece, and maybe the speaking, because the speaking is really sometimes my own opinion. \u00a0Another teacher can think that the kid scores differently on the ACCESS. I think probably the speaking part is the hardest to evaluate to make sure that you are trying to match what the kid is saying to the rubric that the ACCESS test uses, that you are meeting those goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kenya<\/strong>: Do you think students should be tested using alternative assessments?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wanda<\/strong>: I don&#8217;t think the standardized test should be the only evaluation tool for teachers. Sometimes kids develop strategies , they might be good test-takers. \u00a0But some other kids whom are maybe really good students are not good test takers. So, you have to have different ways of assessing students, whether in the classroom, their participation, speaking in the classroom, the daily discussions that you do, the reading, how they are interpreting the readings, the writing, how are they responding to different types of writing. So, I don&#8217;t think that the assessments necessarily capture everything that a student can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kenya Reyes Uno de los mayores problemas de las Escuelas P\u00fablicas de Boston es el bajo rendimiento acad\u00e9mico de los estudiantes latinos, demostrado en el bajo porcentaje que obtienen en las pruebas estandarizadas que les ofrece el Estado. Su rendimiento es inferior al compararlo con de los dem\u00e1s estudiantes de la ciudad. Esta diferencia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75,"url":"https:\/\/826boston.org\/redesign\/veronica-arana\/","url_meta":{"origin":7,"position":0},"title":"Ver\u00f3nica Arana","author":"Veronica Arana","date":"May 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Ver\u00f3nica Arana \u00bfAlguna vez has tenido la oportunidad de tomar clases de universidad a\u00fan estando en la escuela? \u00bfTe gustar\u00eda? 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