Sunday, February 2, 2014

Activity 1: Reflecting on your assessment practice

What is my assessment practice?

I practice continuous assessment. I look at gauging students learning, monitoring their progress and grading their performance.

It was refreshing to realize that I am catering for all my students, as they use 21st century skills in the classroom, due to carefully planned lessons, that incorporated different activities that assessed students learning through: observation, questioning, discussion, checklists and rubrics, etc.

Before and during the teaching-learning process I will identify students' weaknesses and provide appropriate and timely feedback. This then allows students to think about their learning process and work on what they need to do in order for them to take responsibility of their own learning, to understand the topic under study. In addition, I would then reconstruct and/or reteach depending on how much the students need additional practice. In other cases, perhaps there is a need to add more, if the students aren't being challenged.


Overall, my assessment practice is a balance of formative and summative assessment that is geared towards students being self-directed or the teaching learning-process focused on the student and not on the teacher.


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