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THE COMPONENTS OF THE TEACHING

PORTION OF DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT

Here’s what’s amazing about the research. It provides us with a five-step blueprint that can be
applied to any student in any situation. The ”teach” component of dynamic assessment is referred to
as a Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) for a very specific reason: We are structuring the
interaction (mediating) by demonstrating the importance of what we are teaching and tying it directly
back to the student’s life. For each MLE we include:

Intentionality – Meaning – Transcendence – Application – Competence

The best way to illustrate this is to talk about each one a bit but then show you videos of exactly
what each looks like. We are going to walk through a dynamic assessment with a pre-kindergarten
student who just turned five. She has both English and Spanish exposure but is a dominant English
speaker. On her standardized testing, her best performance and almost all of her responses were in
English.

Looking at her subtests, it was clear that she was struggling with specific grammatical forms.
Considering that she spoke two languages, dynamic assessment helped us sort out if these would
make great goals or not. We began our mediated learning experience with Intentionality and walked
through each of the five strategies to be able to make the final call.

Let’s specifically focus on the central “Teach” portion of dynamic assessment and in the next section

we will show you how it plugs into the TEST-TEACH-RETEST model.

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