FIFTH BLOG ENTRY

The term feedback is often used to describe all kinds of comments made after the fact, including advice, praise, and evaluation.

Feedback is an essential part of education. It helps learners to maximize their potential at different stages, raise their awareness of strengths and areas for improvement, and identify actions to be taken to improve performance.

So feedback is a very important element in the teaching-learning process to any teachers as well to students because trough feedbacks teachers can realize how much students have understood the content, and how teachers can help students to improve in their learning process.

Effective feedback requires that a person (Teacher) has a goal, takes action to achieve the goal, and receives goal-related information about his or her actions. When teachers take into account feedback to achieve their goals, they can achieve in a better and faster way their objectives as a result students will learn and improve more.

But we don’t have to forget that feedback can be orally or in a written form as is mentioned in the book; we have to use both types of feedback in order to do a better job.

Teachers who combine strong subject knowledge with effective feedback can offer students rich focused information about their learning and how to improve it.

Improving your learning- a question of attitude

		Stongly Agree	Agree	Disagree	Strongly Disagree
1	I enjoy learning new things or undertaking new work even if I make a lot of mistakes.
2	It is important that people think I am good at what I do.
3	I feel good if I am the only person who can do something.
4	What motivates me to study or my woks is that I enjoy it.
5	The reason why I get on with my work is so that other people do not think I am incompetent.
6	I like things that are really challenging or make me think.
7	It is important that I do not look stupid or embarrass myself in front of other students or colleagues.
8	I am motivated to learn so I can improve my personal performance.
9	The reason I learn new things is to get better at what I do.
10	I like to be better at what I am doing that other people and outperform them.

FOURTH BLOG ENTRY

Pourpose of teacher’s classroom questions

As we have learned assessment is a way to know how our students learn, what are they straights and their weaknesses. 

As the book says in the summary:

Assessment for learning can allow teachers to know and guide all their students as individual learners. It has many facets and is a complex process that is more than grades and levels.

Based on the previews statements I can say that the purpose of teachers question is to know how students are developing their knowledge if they need to reinforce some capabilities in order to succeed.

Some of the reasons why the teachers ask questions in the classroom are:

• To actively involve students in the lesson
• To increase motivation or interest
• To evaluate students’ preparation
• To develop critical thinking skills
• To review previous lessons
• To assess achievement of goals and objectives
• To stimulate independent learninng.

 

Teacher’s classroom questions play an important role in students learning because through the question teacher can know how he or she can help their students to improve also question is an important part of assessment.

THIRD BLOG ENTRY

Assessment in education must, first and foremost, serve the purpose of supporting learning.

 What is assessment is the process of documenting usually in measurable terms, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs. Assessment can focus on the individual learner, the learning community.

The book captivating your class effectively teaching skills, mentioned that assessment for learning is more effectively when:

·         Part of effective planning.

·         Focuses on how students learn.

·         Central to classroom practice.

·         A key professional skill.

·         Sensitive and constructive.

·         Fosters motivation.

·         Promotes understanding of goals and criteria.

·         Helps learners know how to improve.

·         Develops the capacity for self-assessment.

·         Recognizes all educational achievement.

Classroom assessment plays an important role in student achievement. Classroom assessment is the process of obtaining evidence or information of what a student knows, understands, and what they are able to do. It can also help to identify students' learning needs.

Assessment for learning in schools is not only about grading students or the way they learn; assessment is a tool for teachers to learn more about their students and how they can help them to straight their weaknesses. If we as teacher use the assessment to help our students in that way we are giving the purpose of supporting our students in their learning process and this not only will give us an idea how our students are learning but also how we can help them to improve in their learning.