Group Activity 3
- How
has knowledge of diversity influenced your view of teaching, learning and
assessment?
Participate in a group discussion (using the subject
heading "Diversity") and discuss this question. Suggest which
additional items could be added to the list of "what we assess" that
you compiled in Activity 2.
- Make
reflective comments in your blog.
Diversity
ReplyDeleteWhat we assess? How learners …
• Dance
• Paint
• Swim
• Create a puppet, Put on a Puppet show, Demonstrate values through puppetry
• Create advertisements, analyse advertisements, take part in video productions of advertisements
• Design surveys, questionnaires, collection instruments; analyze data collected by instruments, show relationships or patterns among collected data, summarise data into general information
• Take part in discussions, debates, choral speaking
• Self- and peer assess
• Create sculptures, illustrations and models
• Observe, listen, compare and contrast
• Match, interpret and locate things
• Prepare: scripts, jingles, rhymes, poems, slogans and songs
• Dissect, Fix, Mix and Arrange things
• Make decisions, values and judgments
• Share ideas, thoughts and feelings
You have created a very diverse list of what we assess for diversity in learning. Once they are implemented, our students would view learning as a fun, meaningful and collaborative process.
DeleteDiversity
ReplyDeleteHow has knowledge of diversity influenced your view of teaching, learning and assessment?
My refreshed understanding of diversity in education has caused me to view teaching, learning and assessment from the point of view of the learner. Hence, the questions that guide my planning are geared towards the students needs. As such, teaching is given as a means of supporting learning, and assessment is given to monitor that progress and prepare the way for further support, as needed.
As a result, in language teaching, we can further assess how learners,
1. Engage in short debates on topical issues related to the content via online forum or in the classroom.
2. Create advertisements (audio or video) for actual products being used.
3. Write, illustrate and publish a book for children in the target language.
4. Compose and perform a song to remember a grammar principle.
5. Teach a lesson on a topic to be determined by them.
All of the above activities may be assessed as a group activity or as an individual activity.
Diversity
ReplyDeleteHow has knowledge of diversity influenced your view of teaching, learning and assessment?
I have always used Bloom's Taxonomy to help me construct my questions, but never took the various learning styles into consideration. In the future i know I will be examining the students closely to see if I can identify their learning styles and then gauge my questioning to accommodate each style.
1. Assess a debate
2. Have students write short stories
3. Posters
4. Let students us their tablets to help them compose a song