UNIT 10 THE PURPOSE AND PROCESSES OF EVALUATION

 UNIT 10

THE PURPOSE AND PROCESSES OF EVALUATION

According to this I learned the system or the way that we as teachers use in order to evaluate our students, and how it has been changing day by day.  There are many ways or methods that teachers could use in order to asses students  but unfortunately not all of them could be used every time because of some classroom difficulties as for example the size of the class, the topic of the lesson and also the students’ level.

Every time we assess our students is our job to give a good feedback on the students’ job, but as I said before, it is very hard and sometimes impossible to give feedback to all students because of the aspects that I previously mentioned.

Nowadays there is still the typical teachers who used to make feedback but in a wrong way, what old fashioned teachers do is shout at a student correcting him or her in front of the whole class making them being shy and embarrassed. It is not good because in the future those same students won´t never participate again in the class because that they have the fear that if they do any mistake they will be punished once again.  

When grading or checking any assignment is also a bad idea to overcorrect our students´ because once they receive the assignment corrected what they see is the red ink of each corrections about the mistakes they have done. A good way to correct our students is first to set a list of grading symbols that will be used at the time of checking. This list must be created by the teacher and students, so in this way students will know what each symbol mean.

REFERENCES.

Weimer, M. (2013). Learner-Centered Teaching : Five Key Changes to Practice (2nd Edition). Somerset, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved from http://www.ebrary.com

VIDEO

North Carolina Teacher Evaluation Proces by VIF International Educationhttps://youtu.be/9dpdRrM2ijQ

Extra unit from learner centered teaching book

           UNIT 9

Extra unit from learner centered teaching book

Reading this chapter teachers take a very important role in the education process because as the word TEACHER says they work as facilitators of sharing knowledge, and it is not as easy as it seems to be, because if a teacher makes any mistake at the process of teaching the student will grew up with that wrong information, so in the future more problems can occur, including students’ frustration about learning, because they were taught in a wrong way so due to that fact the role of a teacher is essential. During the teaching process all the teachers takes different roles in every single class because each class is not the same every day and teachers must plan the class depending on the lesson, class size, and learning styles.

Teachers let students do more learning tasks. It means that the teacher must not do all the job, he or she must be a guide for students and let them to do the activities by their own, so as a result students will practice and improve their knowledge. In the telling principle, teachers tells students what they have to do so at the end they will develop the discovering part.

Learner-centered teaching is an approach to teaching that is increasingly being encouraged in higher education. Learner-centered teachers do not employ a single teaching method. This approach emphasizes a variety of different types of methods that shifts the role of the instructors from givers of information to facilitating student learning.

Traditionally instructors focused on what they did, and not on what the students are learning. This emphasis on what instructors do often leads to students who are passive learners and who did not take responsibility for their own learning. Educators call this traditional method, “instructor-centered teaching.” In contrast, “learner-centered teaching” occurs when instructors focus on student learning.

Finally I concluded that the teachers’ role is very important inside f the students’ role, because we are responsible for their learning but we must take the information from this book and it suggest that we must be a guide for our students, not the person who will do everything for them. In this book it says that students are the ones who must develop each task by they own but with the teacher’s suggestions and guide.

VIDEO

The following video will be very helpful for you to know if you are an effective teacher.

What are the qualities of a good teacher? by Alliance4Ed https://youtu.be/ZlpBZPLJ0lA 

UNIT 8 SPEAKING

      UNIT 8

      SPEAKING

Speaking is a productive skill similar as writing. it involves usng speech to comunicate meanings to another people. We use the language completely accurately using the correct form o grammar and vocabulary. This productive skill involves several subskills, those are the following.

•      Making use of grammar, vocabulary and funtions.
• making use of register to speak appropriately.
• using features of connected speech
• using body language
• producing different text types
• oral fluency in which the speaker speaks at a normal speed, with little hesitation, repetition, self-correction, and with smooth use connected speech.
• using interactive strategie which means the ways of keeping people interested and invloved in what they are saying.

        Our porpuse in speaking is to communiate meaning. In addition, we use interactive strategies such as gestures, eye contact and facial expressions, turn-taking in order to make our message more clearly and stronger, also functions such as clarifying our meaning. On the other hand, Pahaphrasing is an interactive strategy it reffers to use other wordsn to say the sae thing in order to get the message across. 

Fluency, accuracy and appropiacy also play a major part in successful oral communication. Fluency, helps to ensure that our listener will keep on listening to us with the objective of avoiding being bored. Accuracy is the use of vocabulary and production of sounds keeping our message clear and finally appropriacy is another way of keeping our listeners involved. We use the right register to treat our listener with the appropriate formality or informality.

         This link will be very usefull for you to improve your speaking skill.

TOEFL Speaking Practice! by Lauren Tanya Walters https://youtu.be/y6oa7d7gCCo 

BLIBLIOGRAPHY

(Mary Spratt, 2011)

UNIT 7 LISTENING

 

       UNIT 7

       LISTENING

     Listening is a very crucial skill that peple must improve every day because if we are not good at listening we wont be able to answer accurately or even pronounce the words correctly. Listening is a receptive skill, as it involves responding to language rather that producing it. 

when we speak we usually do not have time not only for organize our thoughts, nor for organize our language beforehand, so for that reason we say thigs as we think. when we listen, we listen structured messages. As spoken texts usually disappear as soon as they are said, they need to be simple for us to process and understand having different features because they are produced and understood in dierent circumstances. We make sense fro our understanding o language but also through making use of the context in which the language is spoken. Spoken language has diferent text types as for example conversations, stories, announcements, songs, instructions, lectures and advertisements. Learning to listen involves learning to be learning to be be able to understand a range of relevant text types.

On the other hand learning also involves understanding speeds of speech and different accents. Features such as speed of delivery and accent are part of connected speech. 

One reason why learners have problems understanding spoken language is because they are not ued to deal with features of connected speech. in addition there are diferent listening subskills as for example. listening for gist or for global understanding, specific information, listening for detail or to infer attitude., listening intensively and extensively. in the classroom the teacher exposes learners to a range of accents, text types and litening skills, those really helps students to build their confidence.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

(Mary Spratt, 2011) 

VIDEO

IELTS Listening - Top 14 tips!by Learn English with Emma [engVid] https://youtu.be/OualsHB1FqE

       There is some links in wich you can learn and improve your listening skills.