Instructional Tools

The Maryland ESL Workgroup designs products and provides materials that are helpful for instructors and administrators.

Observation tools:

1. ESL Informal Observation Guide: Instructional Specialist and administrators unfamiliar with the steps involved in planning and implementing an ESL lesson will find this form helpful. It was designed to include the components of a lesson as it relates to the Maryland Content Standards for Adult ESL/ESOL.

2. Standard Based Information Observation Tool:The Maryland Adult ESL Program Standards provides guidance on instructional expectations. This form includes the standards, strategies, and techniques one should observe in an ESL classroom. Prior to use, the section on instruction in the program standards document, should be reviewed.

Fredrick County Public School Observation:

Fredrick County uses this form to target specific instructional competencies as it pertains to local teaching standards or the instructional standards in the ESL Program Standards Guide. In addition, the form could be modified to include CASA Competencies taught in the observed lesson. The form includes space for the competency, evidence and additional comments. On the back of the form, the instructional specialist comments on how the instructor implemented a lesson using the Maryland Content Standards for Adult ESL/ESOL.

Kent County

Kent County Informal Observation Form Providing positive feedback to instructors is the key to encouraging instructors to continue improving instructional practices. This form developed by the instructional specialist reminds the observer to do just that and is used in conjunction with the Maryland Content Standards for Adult ESL/ESOL.

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