ASSESSMENT: CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING

Why is it important for a teacher?
1. It is a formative assessment
  1. It is an important step in the teaching and learning process
2. It informs when to speed up, slow down, or re-teach (peace the lesson)
3. It allows
  1. making crucial instructional decisions as necessary during the lesson delivery.
  2. teaching in direct response to student learning.
  3. feedback
4. It helps to
  1. identify learning goals and to plan appropriate instructions
  2. improve the students learning (levels of understanding)
Metacognitive strategies
1. Making explicit rubrics for students
2. Improving feedback
3. Students self monitoring
4. Story Frame
Concept Check questions - CCQs
1. They are used when teaching
  1. Grammatical structures
  2. Lexical items
  3. Prhases
2. They are designed to
  1. Check learner's understanding / ensure students have understood definitions or explanations
    1. using realia
    2. asking learners to repeat instructions
    3. learners explaining meaning
    4. open-class questions
    5. recognizing learning styles

Resource summary

	Created by Camila Ayala over 8 years ago