Reflection Unit 4

I loved this last unit, first of all, because I learned about the advantages and disadvantages of using the Self-Assessment technique in our language courses. Second of all, because I designed a self-assessment instrument and it mede me reflect about how helpful self-assesment can be in my future classes if it is used correctly in order to help our students to self evaluate their overall performance. In addition, I discovered that it is good to let students reflect on what they accomplish or not, and make them be aware of their responsibility degree on their own learning process.  Moreover, this might prevent the passiveness of our students and could provide them a chance to find a way to improve what they think it is lacking in their performance. On the other hand, I also learned that even though we could design an excellent instrument for self-assessing, some students may lack of objectivity and might assign themselves higher grades than they deserve or even lower grades if they are very demanding with themselves. Despite of the possible disadvantages, I think that the self-assessment is a very useful tool because we can help our students to become autonomous learners, and this is by far, the most important goal we could pursuit as teachers.