During the last meeting of the Language Acquisition PLC we discussed our concern with checking the level of comprehension of ELL students at Wyandotte High School. We tossed around ideas such as polling/surveying students as to their level of comprehension in any given class.  We believe that our focal point must be that of comprehension.
The questions that flow from that are:

Does the student understand? How do we check for understanding?
How do we know whether they do or do not understand?
What can we do to help a student understand better?