Date:
Grade Level:
Content Areas Teaching:
Number of ELL students per class:
The following questions will be used as a guide for the conversation. Please be assured the answers are completely anonymous and are kept in strict confidentiality. Participant privacy or anonymity will be guaranteed. The questions are designed to extract
information regarding teachers’ perceptions on current evaluation practices in classrooms where ELL students are present.
Please be as specific and detailed as possible. Your participation is voluntary and you may discontinue your participation at any time. While the results of this study may be published or otherwise reported to scientific bodies, your identity will in no way be connected. Additional open-ended questions may be asked in order to clarify
participant’s perceptions, point of views, and opinions. Conversations will be recorded and transcribed.
Questions:
1) What is your perception on teacher evaluations?
2) How do you feel when you have an administrator conducting and observation or walk through in your classroom?
3) As an English Language Learner (ELL) teacher, do you feel that the current evaluative practices take into consideration instructional strategies specific to ELLs?
4) How do you feel about being evaluated using the same evaluative instruments that are currently used with mainstream classrooms teachers?
5) How challenging is to teach ELL students?
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7) How knowledgeable on ELL specific instructional practices do you think your evaluators are?
8) How knowledgeable on ELL specific instructional practices do you think mainstream classrooms teachers are?
9) Do you consider yourself culturally proficient?
10) How important do you believe diversity is in your school?
11) Do you feel that differentiating teacher evaluation instruments would make a difference? Why?
12) What specific research-based ELL instructional strategies would you consider are necessary to be used in order to meet the specific needs of ELL students in the language acquisition process?
13) In your opinion, are there any differences between the research-based instructional practices used in a mainstream classroom and those that are specific to be used with ELL students? Please feel free to elaborate and share examples.
Please make any comments you think may clarify your perception about current teacher evaluative practices.
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Appendix J: School Administrator Interview Background Information on Interviewee
Date:
School Level: Title:
Number of ELL classrooms: Number of ELL Teachers:
The following questions will be used as a guide for the conversation. Please be assured the answers are completely anonymous and are kept in strict
confidentiality. Participant privacy or anonymity will be guaranteed. The questions are designed to extract information regarding teachers’ perceptions on current evaluation practices in classrooms where ELL students are present.
Please be as specific and detailed as possible. Your participation is voluntary and you may discontinue your participation at any time. While the results of this study may be published or otherwise reported to scientific bodies, your identity will in no way be connected. Additional open-ended questions may be asked in order to clarify participant’s perceptions, point of views, and opinions.
Conversations will be recorded and transcribed.
Questions:
1) What is your perception on teacher evaluations?
2) How do you feel when you conduct an observation or walk through in an ELL classroom?
3) As a school administrator, do you feel that the current evaluative
practices take into consideration instructional strategies specific to ELLs? 4) How do you feel about evaluating ELL teachers using the same evaluative
instruments that are currently used with mainstream classrooms teachers?
5) How challenging do you believe teaching ELL students is? 6) Do you feel your district is supportive to you?
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7) How knowledgeable on ELL specific instructional practices are you? 8) How knowledgeable on ELL specific instructional practices do you think
mainstream classrooms teachers are?
9) Do you consider yourself culturally proficient?
10) How important do you believe diversity is in your school?
11) Do you feel that differentiating teacher evaluation instruments would make a difference? Why?
12) What specific research-based ELL instructional strategies would you consider are necessary to be used in order to meet the specific needs of ELL students in the language acquisition process?
13) In your opinion, are there any differences between the research-based instructional practices used in a mainstream classroom and those that are specific to be used with ELL students? Please feel free to elaborate and share examples.
Please make any comments you think may clarify your perception about current teacher evaluative practices. __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________
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Appendix K: District Administrator Interview Background Information on Interviewee
Date: Title:
The following questions will be used as a guide for the conversation. Please be assured the answers are completely anonymous and are kept in strict
confidentiality. Participant privacy or anonymity will be guaranteed. The questions are designed to extract information regarding teachers’ perceptions on current evaluation practices in classrooms where ELL students are present.
Please be as specific and detailed as possible. Your participation is voluntary and you may discontinue your participation at any time. While the results of this study may be published or otherwise reported to scientific bodies, your identity will in no way be connected. Additional open-ended questions may be asked in order to clarify participant’s perceptions, point of views, and opinions.
Conversations will be recorded and transcribed.
Questions:
1) What is your perception on teacher evaluations?
2) As a district administrator, do you feel that the current evaluative
practices take into consideration instructional strategies specific to ELLs? 3) How do you feel about evaluating ELL teachers using the same evaluative
instruments that are currently used with mainstream classrooms teachers?
4) How challenging do you believe teaching ELL students is?
5) How knowledgeable on ELL specific instructional practices do you think ELL teachers are?
6) How knowledgeable on ELL specific instructional practices do you think your school administrators and or evaluators are?
7) How knowledgeable on ELL specific instructional practices do you think mainstream classrooms teachers are?
8) Do you consider yourself culturally proficient?
9) How important do you believe diversity is in your district?
10) Do you feel that differentiating teacher evaluation instruments would make a difference? Why?
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Please make any comments you think may clarify your perception about current teacher evaluative practices.