500 Tips for TESOL Teachers

Chapter 6 Assessment 38 Designing classroom tests 39 Giving feedback on classroom tests 40 Getting learner self-assessment going ...

38 Designing classroom tests A formal classroom test is one of the many options available if you want to assess your learners’ p ...

7 Help your learners to prepare well. Tell them in advance when the test will be, and tell them about the likely content, questi ...

have done well is an important step towards being able to continue to do them well. 4 Help learners to receive critical feedback ...

40 Getting learner self-assessment going Students can learn a great deal from self-assessment. It is important not to mix up lea ...

way of finding out those areas where learners lack awareness, and working out what to do to help learners to address such areas. ...

would have been able to give them yourself, and that you will then be able to concentrate on giving them feedback about really i ...

You will also quickly pick up the points that you may want to give feedback on to the whole class. 10 Consider awarding some mar ...

adapt these if they are also to function well as teaching materials. For example, could you personalize any of the activities? T ...

Chapter 7 Personal and Professional Development 43 Using professional journals 44 Doing action research 45 Starting a teaching p ...

you to build your portfolio, so that it is available for assessment if and when you need it. The remainder of this chapter is ab ...

5 Look at the procedural details. Perhaps you want to try out an idea from an article. Has the writer told you enough about thei ...

classroom and institution. So, the first step is to consider your context in order to find areas which may benefit from investig ...

understanding of your situation and may—depending on the time you have available for the project—suggest further action strategi ...

data will be useful, and start collecting examples of this data as a normal part of your everyday work. 4 Decide what sort of da ...

46 Building your teaching portfolio Having a well-filed collection of data relating to your teaching is a good start towards ass ...

jargon) the special aspects and problems of teaching, learning and assessment in the TESOL discipline. 7 Don’t write the introdu ...

1 Keep a list of the work you need to do under a series of headings. These headings could make up a priority list of: must do im ...

10 In the end you must decide what kinds of activity have a high payoff or a low payoff for you in terms of your time investment ...

concerts or having a day of total sloth. Regard these as part of a programme of active stress management rather than as a guilt- ...