ASSESSMENT: CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING

ASSESSMENT: CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING

1. Why is it important for a teacher?

   • It is a formative assessment
     • It is an important step in the teaching and learning process
   • It informs when to speed up, slow down, or re-teach (peace the lesson)
   • It allows
     • making crucial instructional decisions as necessary during the lesson delivery.
     • teaching in direct response to student learning.
     • feedback
   • It helps to
     • identify learning goals and to plan appropriate instructions
     • improve the students learning (levels of understanding)

2. Metacognitive strategies

   • Making explicit rubrics for students
   • Improving feedback
   • Students self monitoring
   • Story Frame

3. Concept Check questions - CCQs

   • They are used when teaching
     • Grammatical structures
     • Lexical items
     • Prhases
   • They are designed to
     • Check learner's understanding / ensure students have understood definitions or explanations
       • using realia
       • asking learners to repeat instructions
       • learners explaining meaning
       • open-class questions
       • recognizing learning styles

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