Assessment Strategies for CLB/PBLA Speaking Levels

Selena Parker, OCELT
January 26, 2025
7:00 – 8:00 pm EST

How does one go about assessing a student’s speaking capabilities? What activities can we incorporate? What are some things we can do to better help students understand their strengths and weaknesses? How can we manage assessing students of various levels without tripling our workload? Join us to learn more about these challenges.

This webinar will help teachers better understand how to assess students in a mixed level class with an in-depth comparison of the differences between the CLB speaking levels. It will give teachers some ideas on things they can do to cut back on the rubric creations for individual levels and skills, as well as some consistent activities usable throughout various modules.

Participants will learn about:

  • the key differences between the various speaking levels and sections,
  • a rubric that encompasses various levels and is good for evaluation and assessments, and
  • sample tasks to use in any module, and the terms for evaluation and assessments.

Webinar Type: Language Training Resources

Categories: Assessment

Teaching Sectors: Continuing Education/Adult ESL (non-credit), LINC

Participant Level: No previous knowledge required

About the Presenter

Selena Parker (she/her) is an ESL teacher for adult immigrants in a small town. Selena has been teaching for over nine years. She enjoys creating different resources and materials for students to help get them to remember and learn, as well as creating things that are reusable and functional.

* Members must be a member of the TESL Ontario group on Tutela.

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