A Framework for Evaluation

Until this point as a teacher, I haven’t realize how important was planning a framework before and through the process of teaching a course. When I was reading this I remembered what I do with my English course and I compare it with what the authors say that is here, right down:

 I realized that sometimes we do some of the things by inertia, not as well as they must have done, but still that we do it. May be at this point we make mistakes because we are beginners, even though, we are hoping to learn more thought the process and make a better job.

 Here there are some things we can do in order to assess our courses from the beginning to end of it.

•          Determine students’ needs and abilities.
•          Examine students’ progress in a regularly.
•          Provide occasions for informing students learning process
•          Monitor classroom activities.
•          Monitoring the effectiveness of instructions in order to plan on going instructions.
•         Monitoring if students understand what they were taught.
•          Monitoring students understanding of content.
•          Determine students’ needs and abilities.
•          Examine students’ progress in a regularly.
•          Provide occasions for informing students learning process
•          Monitor classroom activities.

Remember that the key of this is to make changes in the course, when it’s necessary, with the only purpose to help students to get better results at the end of their courses. 

Assessing Writing

I think writing is a very important skill because learners can use grammar and vocabulary in it, also they can show how good they are using them. Similarly, it is important to mention that writing is a skill than will enrich student’s knowledge as well as grammatical structures.

The challenge with it is that the majority of the students have problems writing in their mother tongue, so as it is inferred students at the beginning would have many problems. The thing here is to be persistent.

So, now in terms of assessment I think washback is very useful because it allows the students to rewrite what they did and realize the mistakes they are making in order to do a better job and improve their speaking skills.