In this unit, we had the chance to learn what an assessment is, as well as to differentiate it from testing and teaching. It is important to differentiate this three terms, since it is easy to get confuse and we will be using them a lot in the classroom.
We also learned about the portfolio, how is it used in the classroom and how we can encourage our students to used. It is important to know how to use the portfolio in class because it is a tool that it will provide us with the information that our students or even ourselves learnt and acquired throughout the course, such as information, reflections, and activities that students developed.
In the other hand, we also had the opportunity to reflect about the fact that using assessments will help us to get information not just from the students, but from and for different sources. With the assessment audit we learned to distinguish who the assessment is for. Making it a little bit easier for us to understand the topic.
Finally, with learning objectives we learned to create objectives or competences that we could use or implement in our assessment plans. Personally, I loved this activity because it set me on the teacher environment, and for a moment I could feel like a teacher, thinking on all the competences I want to work on my students. I think that using this type of activities helps us to grow as future teachers.
Hello Gaby,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your portfolio. I like it. It is colorful and well illustrated.
About your reflection, there is something I would like to comment on. We do not use learning objectives or competencies to make an assessment plan; instead, they are the starting point to teach and then to assess. First, we need to know what we are going to teach; so that we can plan the lessons in which we should include assessment.
I really hope you learned to assess students in different ways,