Vandreia Montano

ESC 708
Spring 2015
Reflection 4.c.
The artifact I selected and that meets with the TESOL standard 4.c. was developed as one
of the materials for a group assignment for the class ESC 766 from the spring semester of 2015.
For this assignment, my group (a classmate and I) developed a 10 lesson unit plan designed to be
applied to adult ESL learners with intermediate to advanced levels of English proficiency. I
created the rubric as one of the materials for one of the classes of the unit to assess the learners
development with the use of superlatives and comparatives in English. The rubric is meant to be
used by the teacher while the students are performing individual presentations, which is part of a
project developed during two classes of the unit. The main theme of the Unit is careers and for
the project the students have to research a company of their choice and find the most interesting
and important things to make a presentation to the whole class. The content objectives with the
unit are to familiarize the students with the superlative and comparative in English.
Developing this artifact was an opportunity for me to create a performance-based
assessment rubric to assess the students completed work and their performance in the content
area. It helped me to understand the different kinds of assessment and how to foster content
learning while assessing the students performance. This artifact shows my ability to create
performance-based assessment in the content areas and adapt it to ESL students, in accordance
with the TESOL standard 4.c. Classroom-based Assessment for ESL Candidates know and use
a variety of performance-based assessment tools and techniques to inform classroom
instruction. They can assess learners content-area achievement independently from their

language ability and should be able to adapt classroom tests and tasks for ELLs at varying
stages of English language and literacy development.
This artifact helped me to see how performance-based assessment can help the students
to improve their knowledge of specific content area topics and how teachers can assess their
development. It also developed my skills with the different kinds of assessment as I read and
learned about the topic in order to create the artifact.
The area in my teaching skills development that still needs to grow according to the
TESOL standard 4.c. is my ability to work with portfolios as an assessment tool. What I would
like to take from this artifact to the classroom is the awareness of the importance of performancebased assessment as a tool for the students to improve their content area knowledge and for the
teacher to assess the learners development in the content matter.