MONITORING STUDENT PROGRESS AND POTENTIAL

WHAT'S THE RELEVANCE THAT FEEDBACK AND HOMEWORK HAVE FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHERS?

Homework is a useful resource that effective teachers use to assess their students´ progress. So, effective teachers should know how to select and to assign homework because this homework should be suitable and significant for students. Homework has positive effects on student achievement when it is explained and related to the topic studied in class. Besides, effective teachers should know how to deal with homework and students´ responsibility.

Feedback is more than wrong or right. Feedback is an important technique to increase learning in our students. Effective teachers use feedback as a way to provide specific explanations of what students are doing correct or incorrect. Finally, effective teachers use feedback to encourage their students and to let them know that they are important for us.

WHY DOES ASSESSMENT PLAY A CENTRAL ROLE IN TEACHING?

Assessment is very important and it plays a central role in teaching because it is use to evaluate student progress and learning. Besides, it is important to determine the effectiveness of a lesson, and we can determine it through a good assessment. Effective teachers assess their students´ work before giving feedback to them. Besides, we can use assessment to assess and evaluate our own teaching practice in terms of student learning.

WHAT ARE SOME EFFECTIVE WAYS OF MONITORING STUDENT PROGRESS?

We, as teachers, have some effective ways to monitor student progress such as homework and assessment. Homework is a good way to know if our students have understood any topic and to expand our student´s learning. Besides, we can use assessment as a good way of monitoring our student´ progress. Through this assessment we can give useful and suitable feedback to our students.

DAPA

Word Tennis     7:00 AM – 7:11 AM

Description:

  7:00 AM

- She greeted the class.

- She started to ask us about tennis.

- She didn’t say the purpose of the activity.

- She asked us to divide the class into two groups. (Girls and boys)

- She gave us some pieces of paper which had some words.

  7:04 AM

- She asked us to rewrite the words in a different order.

  7:08 AM

- She asked group A to show its first word in order for group B to guess the word.

- She asked group B to show its first word in order for group A to guess the word.

- Both groups continued doing the same routine until there were no more words to guess.

  7:11 AM

- She ended the activity.

Analyzing:

- According to what I know about Warmers, she should have explained the purpose of the activity.

- According to what I know about Classroom Management, she was very confident in order to succeed in the activity.

- According to what I know about CCQing, she gave an example in order to CCQ, but I think it wasn’t enough. 

Plan of Action:

- In the near future, if I use this activity, I am going to explain the purpose of the activity.                

- I am going to give more than two examples in order to CCQ.                     

- I am going to be more energetic because according to what I know about Classroom Management, a good teacher should show energy in order for his students to be motivated.             

- I am going to be mobile during the activity because according to what I know about Classroom Management, a good teacher should be mobile in order to catch his students’ attention.

Questions I am Still Thinking About:

- How can I improve this activity?

- How can I be more energetic?

- Is it enough just to give examples when CCQing?

Advice for Novice Teachers:

- Keep instructions short and simple and CCQ.

- Give clear instructions.