Classroom Assessment Multiple Languages: A Handbook for Teachers

Thankfully, Margo Gottlieb is here to provide concrete and actionable guidance on how to create assessment systems that enable understanding of the whole student, not just that fraction of the student who is only visible as an English learner. With Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages as your guide, you’ll: • Better understand the rationale for and evidence on the value and advantages of classroom assessment in multiple languages • Add to your toolkit of classroom assessment practices in one or multiple languages • Be more precise and effective in your assessment of multilingual learners by embedding assessment as, for, and of learning into your instructional repertoire • Recognize how social-emotional, content, and language learning are all tied to classroom assessment • Guide multilingual learners in having voice and choice in the assessment process Despite the urgent need, assessment for multilingual learners is generally tucked into a remote chapter, if touched upon at all in a book; the number of resources narrows even more when multiple languages are brought into play. Here at last is that single resource on how educators and multilingual learners can mutually value languages and cultures in instruction and assessment throughout the school day and over time. We encourage you to get started right away.