While the vignettes in the ESL standards document present snapshots of instruction, the next assessment document planned to accompany the standards is designed to provide classroom videos. The working title is Scenarios for ESL Standards-Based Assessment. The document includes the MAP and illustrates how the assessment model proposed in the MAP can be implemented in a range of classrooms serving ESOL students. As with the ESL standards document, the scenarios in this document were written by ESL and bilingual educators. Building on the ESL standards vignettes, the scenarios interweave assessment with instruction and recast the classroom action within the four phases of the assessment cycle.
All scenarios follow the same basic format.
Like the vignettes, they begin by specifying a goal and standard, then list specific progress indicators that will serve as the instructional and assessment focus for the scenario. Background information about students and the classroom is provided in the context section, as is information about the classroom setting, showing where students are in the instructional sequence. Most of this information is drawn directly from the vignettes. The next section, however, Allocation of Time, adds to the vignette format by providing the time frame in which the instructional and assessment sequence take place. The first phase, planning, shows how a teacher might plan to include assessment within a sequence of instructional activities.