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Volume 12 Winter 2000

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CONTENTS

Introduction: Volume 12:
Experiences with
Standards-Based Reform

Alison Simmons, Editor

What Makes A Good Teacher?
Marie F. Hassett, Ph.D.


Successful Supervision:
Three Perspectives

Caroline Gear, Rebecca Shiffron,
Steve Kurtz

A Curriculum Project
Sherry Spaulding

A Performance Framework for Teaching and Learning with the Equipped for the Future (EFF) Content Standards
Peggy McGuire

Connecting the ESOL Framework
to Actual Practice

Roseann Ritter


Learning from Experience
To TABE or Not to TABE:
One Agency's Options

Bernie Driscoll

Learning and Change: A Phase Two North Carolina ESOL
Framework Inquiry Project

Beth Brockman



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A Performance Framework for Teaching and Learning with the Equipped for the Future (EFF) Content Standards

Peggy McGuire
EFF Assessment Coordinator, Philadelphia, PA

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Figure 1

Observation Worksheet

Name of Student ____________________________________________
Date _________________
EFF Standard ____________________________________________________

What kinds of tasks can learners carry out?

 

 

 

 

In what contexts can learners perform?

 

 

 

 

What do learners know?

 

 

 

 

How well can learners perform?

 

 

 

 

Figure 2

Performance Framework for EFF Standards

In order to ensure that adult learners can use the EFF skills to act flexibly, with a range of options and choices, to meet the goals in their lives, teachers and learners need to pay attention to the following aspects of learner performance:

What kinds of tasks can learners carry out?

1. How complex is the task?

2 How familiar are leaners with the task?

 

 

 

In what contexts can learners perform?

1. How familiar are learners with the context?

2. In how many diffeent situations can learners perform?

3. How much risk is involved in the situation?

 

 

 

What do learners know?

1. Do learners have the vocabulary related to the skill? Related to the subject area?

2. Do learners have content knowledge related to the skill? Related to the subject area?

3. Do learners have strategies for organizing content knowledge?

 

 

 

How well can learners perform?

1. How fluently can learners perform? How much effort is required? How consistently do learners start and finish, getting to the desired outcome? How well are barriers controlled or overcome?

2. How independently can learners perform? How much help is needed from others? How much initiative is shown in getting started? How often do learners generate their own strategies to complete tasks?

 

 

 

For more information on Equipped for the Future and its publications, contact 1-877-433-7627 or go to its Web site: www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/eff/eff.html

 

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