Create a 10-12 slide digital presentation for special education teachers, gifted teachers, and other members of a multidisciplinary team to lay a foundation for understanding ELL students’ needs and making culturally, linguistically, and developmentally appropriate decisions for intervention, support, special education services, and/or gifted services. Include the following in your presentation:

  • Explain the importance of understanding how the individual identity of the ELL student, affected by academic, personal, familial, cultural, and social contexts, including sociopolitical factors, impacts the student’s learning, development, and achievement.
  • Provide a rationale, including major concepts, principles, theories, or research, for developing awareness of the role of culture/cultural groups to construct supportive learning environments for ELLs, including those with exceptionalities. 
  • Describe three methods that educators can implement to learn about personal characteristics of individual ELLs with exceptionalities (e.g., interests, motivations, strengths, needs) and their families (e.g., language use, literacy practices, circumstances) to develop effective instructional practices.
  • Describe three methods that can be implemented to collect information on the ELL student’s academic characteristics, including background knowledge, educational history, and current performance data, to develop effective, individualized instructional and assessment practices for the ELL.
  • Provide three recommendations for how to collaborate with ELL families in meeting the needs of ELL students with exceptionalities.

Support your presentation with a minimum of three scholarly resources.   

Submit your deliverable, or a link to your deliverable, and scholarly resources in a single document. Ensure that others can access and view the link prior to submitting. 

Presenter’s notes are required for each content slide. Presentation must include a title slide at the beginning, and a reference slide with documentation of resources at the end. The title slide and reference slide are not included in the total number of slides.

The digital presentation should include graphics that are relevant to the content, visually appealing, and use space appropriately. 

While APA Style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. 

Benchmark – Addressing the Diverse Needs of ELLs – Rubric

Factors A�ecting Learning (B) 50 points

Criteria Description

C2.5

5. Target 50 points

The importance of understanding how the individual identity of the ELL student

impacts the student’s learning, development, and achievement is compelling.

Provides a sophisticated rationale, including major concepts, principles, theories, or

research, for developing awareness of the role of culture/cultural groups to

construct supportive learning environments for ELLs, including those with

exceptionalities.

4. Acceptable 43.5 points

The importance of understanding how the individual identity of the ELL student

impacts the student’s learning, development, and achievement is noteworthy.

Provides a significant rationale, including major concepts, principles, theories, or

research, for developing awareness of the role of culture/cultural groups to

construct supportive learning environments for ELLs, including those with

exceptionalities.

3. Approaching 37 points

The importance of understanding how the individual identity of the ELL student

impacts the student’s learning, development, and achievement is overly simplistic.

Provides a weak rationale, including major concepts, principles, theories, or

research, for developing awareness of the role of culture/cultural groups to

construct supportive learning environments for ELLs, including those with

exceptionalities.

2. Insufficient 34.5 points

The importance of understanding how the individual identity of the ELL student

impacts the student’s learning, development, and achievement is insufficient.

Provides a poor rationale, including major concepts, principles, theories, or

research, for developing awareness of the role of culture/cultural groups to

construct supportive learning environments for ELLs, including those with

exceptionalities.

1. No Submission 0 points

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Not addressed.

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Personal Characteristics (B) 40 points

Criteria Description

C2.1

5. Target 40 points

Methods that educators can implement to learn about personal characteristics of

individual ELLs with exceptionalities and their families to develop effective

instructional practices are innovative.

4. Acceptable 34.8 points

Methods that educators can implement to learn about personal characteristics of

individual ELLs with exceptionalities and their families to develop effective

instructional practices are effective.

3. Approaching 29.6 points

Methods that educators can implement to learn about personal characteristics of

individual ELLs with exceptionalities and their families to develop effective

instructional practices are weak.

2. Insufficient 27.6 points

Methods that educators can implement to learn about personal characteristics of

individual ELLs with exceptionalities and their families to develop effective

instructional practices are flawed.

1. No Submission 0 points

Not addressed.

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Instructional and Assessment Practices (B) 40 points

Criteria Description

C2.3

5. Target 40 points

Methods that can be implemented to collect information on the ELL student’s

academic characteristics, including background knowledge, educational history, and

current performance data, to develop effective, individualized instructional and

assessment practices for the ELL are sophisticated.

4. Acceptable 34.8 points

Methods that can be implemented to collect information on the ELL student’s

academic characteristics, including background knowledge, educational history, and

current performance data, to develop effective, individualized instructional and

assessment practices for the ELL are significant.

3. Approaching 29.6 points

Methods that can be implemented to collect information on the ELL student’s

academic characteristics, including background knowledge, educational history, and

current performance data, to develop effective, individualized instructional and

assessment practices for the ELL are shallow.

2. Insufficient 27.6 points

Methods that can be implemented to collect information on the ELL student’s

academic characteristics, including background knowledge, educational history, and

current performance data, to develop effective, individualized instructional and

assessment practices for the ELL are ineffective.

1. No Submission 0 points

Not addressed.

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Collaboration with ELL Families 40 points

Criteria Description

Collaboration with ELL Families

5. Target 40 points

Recommendations for how to collaborate with ELL families in meeting the needs of

ELL students with exceptionalities are ideal.

4. Acceptable 34.8 points

Recommendations for how to collaborate with ELL families in meeting the needs of

ELL students with exceptionalities are solid.

3. Approaching 29.6 points

Recommendations for how to collaborate with ELL families in meeting the needs of

ELL students with exceptionalities are weak.

2. Insufficient 27.6 points

Recommendations for how to collaborate with ELL families in meeting the needs of

ELL students with exceptionalities are unfitting.

1. No Submission 0 points

Not addressed.

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Presentation 10 points

Criteria Description

Presentation

5. Target 10 points

The work is well presented. The overall appearance is neat and professional. Work

would be highly desirable for public dissemination.

4. Acceptable 8.7 points

The overall appearance is generally neat, with a few minor organizational flaws.

Work would be desirable for public dissemination.

3. Approaching 7.4 points

The work is somewhat disheveled and includes several organizational flaws. Work

would barely be presentable for public dissemination.

2. Insufficient 6.9 points

The work is sloppy or chaotic. Work would not be presentable for public

dissemination.

1. No Submission 0 points

Not addressed.

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Title Slide, Slide Notes, and Research Citations 10 points

Criteria Description

Title Slide, Slide Notes, and Research Citations

5. Target 10 points

Title slide and thorough slide notes are present. In-text citations and a reference

slide are complete and correct. Sources are credible. The documentation of cited

sources is free of error.

4. Acceptable 8.7 points

Title slide and slide notes are present. In-text citations have few errors. References

used are reliable and reference slide lists all cited sources with few errors.

3. Approaching 7.4 points

Title slide, and/or slide notes, and/or reference slide are not present. Sources do

not fully support claims, or sources are not all credible. Sources are documented,

although several errors are present.

2. Insufficient 6.9 points

No title slide or slide notes are present. Reference slide includes errors and/or

inconsistently used citations. Sources are noncredible.

1. No Submission 0 points

Not addressed.

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Mechanics of Writing 10 points

Criteria Description

Includes spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, language use, sentence

structure, etc.

5. Target 10 points

Presentation and speaker’s notes are free of mechanical errors. Skilled control of

sentence structure is used throughout.

4. Acceptable 8.7 points

Presentation and speaker’s notes include a few mechanical errors. Suitable

sentence structure is used.

3. Approaching 7.4 points

Presentation and speaker’s notes include frequent and repetitive mechanical

errors. Inconsistencies in sentence structure are recurrent.

2. Insufficient 6.9 points

Presentation and speaker’s notes include errors in grammar or syntax that are

pervasive and impede meaning. Incorrect sentence structure errors are found

throughout.

1. No Submission 0 points

Not addressed.

Total 200 points

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