How can someone give effective feedback to his/her students?

      Feedback is an important tool for the student and teacher. It is the information communicated to a student in regard to his/her understanding, this information includes guidance on how to improve.

 It also enables students to gain a more thorough understanding of the particular skill or concept they are trying to improve in.

      Feedback should concentrate on the success of the work and the areas

for improvement in both individual pieces and for meeting the learning objectives over a longer period of time.

      Feedback is most effective when it is delivered promptly and reflection time is planned into the lesson to allow students time to respond

to the comment and if possible act upon it immediately

      The impact of prompt, criteria based feedback on selected pieces

of work will have greater long-term impact on a student’s learning

and their results. 

What are the purposes of teacher’s classroom questions?

    Questioning is very important within a classroom. Well-structured questions in a Learning-Teaching environment can move student learning forward.

     Questioning serves dual purpose in helping a teacher meet course requirements and in developing subject mastery and progress.

      Questioning is also a means of developing and extending student dialogue and is an essential tool for both teaching and learning.

       In an ‘A’ Level classroom, questioning is arguably of even greater importance in terms of developing subject knowledge, moving learning forward and building self-esteem.

What’s your call on the following? Assessment in education must, first and foremost, serve the purpose of supporting learning

When supporting learning, assessment should involve the following aspects:

1)    It should show the teachers’ performance results on the Learning-Teaching      process, that means how effective was  the education the learners received in an education establishment.

2)    Assessment is also focused on improving the Learning-Teaching Process and raise standards in the classroom; that is  through the evaluation, both teachers and learners have the opportunity to get better by determining their own ability, progress and steps to improvement.

Besides, it’s through assessment for learning that teachers and students come to an understanding of the individual’s learning needs. In order words, whenever  teachers assess the learners, they are shown the weakness they all have to work on, so that both of them can get a successful learning.

University study requires students to take responsibility for their own learning, to be more self-directed, to make their own decisions about what they will focus on and how much time they will spend on learning both inside and outside the classroom. How can you get the students up to this point by the end of the course or the year?

First of all, I have to let the learners know that I will be just a guide or facilitator for them, and they’ll have to work with independence; in other words, the teacher has to encourage the students to autonomously engage in their studies and to think by themselves, so that they can become their own learning builder.

I would like to put into practice Belle Wallace’s independent learning framework, which is called: TASC  ( Thinking Actively in a Social Context ). Whenever I teach a specific topic, I’d like to make my students follow the stages of the TASC WHEEL from the beginning to the end.

The TASC WHEEL is a cycle that learners should work in, and it consists of the following segments:

ORGANIZE:

Students explore their schemata that will be the basis to start working.

IDENTIFY:

It is to set the tasks they will work on.

GENERATE:

To think about worthwhile ideas to succeed on the work.

DECIDE:

The group gets together and choose the best decisions.

IMPLEMENT:

It means to start working.

EVALUATE:

In this stage, students have to be aware if they have achieved the main purpose of the work.

In your own words, explain how more interesting and innovating strategies can create a positive and challenging learning environment for your or someone’s students.

A positive and challenging learning environment could be created by taking into account the following strategies:

Ø  TALKING:

This tool is very useful because through it the teacher can gain and mantain students’ attention. Students learn English better through dialogues or conversations; that is, by communicating and speaking one another.

Ø  NOTE TAKING:

The purpose of Note Taking is to recall , for future reference, the most conspicious features in a text, learners could perform this action before having an exam or when they are about to perform an important job that could be graded.

Ø  READING:

It is one of the most important activity when learning a second language. Reading helps to inform the learner’s knowledge as well as develop their reasoning skills.

In my opinion, students should read a lot and then put into practice the readings by speaking to others in order to recall and to learn what they have read.

Ø  PARTICIPATION:

If students don’t participate in class, it would be hard for the teacher to investigate if someone has understood the lesson. Teachers should encourage an active participation of all students so that they can show their strengths and weaknesses.

Ø  GAMES:

Warm-up activities, ice breakers or other games are very useful to avoid stress or dullness in the classroom. Learners should find fun in each lesson in order to encourage them to learning.