Disciplinary Literacy and Student-Centered Assessment in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom 

Assessment Learning Network with Christina Ponzio

Date

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Time

8:30 am - 11:00 am

Location

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This session explores the disciplinary literacies of English language arts and features examples that engage students in authentic purposes for reading, writing, speaking/listening, and viewing.  Participants will explore what it might look like to apprentice students into the types of thinking, problem-solving, and communicating that are valued in fields such as journalism, communications, and publishing.  The session also explores the assessment practices that intentionally support students as they are apprenticed into ways of thinking and communicating valued in English language arts classrooms.

Framing Questions

  1. What research supports the importance of developing disciplinary literacies for teachers and their students in the secondary ELA classroom?   
  2. What does instruction look like in the secondary ELA classroom when we live into disciplinary literacy essentials?   
  3. What do student-centered assessment approaches look like when they support instruction designed to develop disciplinary literacy in the secondary ELA classroom?  

This session is co-sponsored and presented by the Disciplinary Literacy Task Force of the GELN and the Michigan Assessment Consortium.

Presentation Video

Creating Coherence: Instruction and assessment in secondary classrooms that engages and motivates today's learners (Available to ALN attendees only. Need the password? Contact klafave@michiganassessmentconsortiuim.org)

Presenter: Christina Ponzio

Christina M. Ponzio, PhD, is an assistant professor of literacy studies at Grand Valley State University. Her work as a teacher educator is informed by her previous experiences as a secondary ELA/ESL teacher, ESL program coordinator, and literacy coach in Metro Detroit. As a teacher educator and researcher, Christina is committed to cultivating among teachers and learners a sense of agency and efficacy to enact change from the bottom up to advance greater equity and social justice within language and literacy education.

Learning Moments

Living into disciplinary literacy essentials in the secondary ELA classroom
Research support for secondary ELA disciplinary literacies
Student-centered assessment approaches that develop disciplinary literacy in secondary ELA classrooms

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