Testing and Assessment: Assessment there should be part of any learning process because it helps us to evaluate the students' proficiency. I was not clear about the difference between assessment and evaluation that is why I used to give more importance to the final grade. I have to give a lot of value to the learning process and to make a lot of emphasis to the formative evaluations. This formative evaluation and the daily work will be the scaffold to build a better English learning process. Testing has its important during the assessment but it can not be the main goal since a test is just a reference of our students' knowledge in the target language. I am going to apply different evaluations which are going to be based on activities that let students the opportunity to built their own knowledge. I also have to observe the process and not only the results because they could be doing a good job during every single task. Assessment, evaluation, and testing work all together in order to fulfill the students' needs and improve in the process to communicate in the English language.
Class Management: It is probably one of the most difficult aspects in the teaching/ learning process. Most teachers are well prepared and know all they need to know in order to share knowledge with their students. However; it is very difficult to acquire any knowledge in an environment without order or stillness. Teachers are not only concerned about what to teach or how to teach but also the importance of teaching their students responsibility and the respect to their classmates' points of view. According to my experience, it is not an easy task to make a balance in the classroom. During this session, I had the opportunity to learn some strategies that help teacher to have transition from one activity to another. In addition to that; we practice some ideas to deal with peace and timing which are very important elements to answer a task without too many delays. I used to use attention grabbers without knowing that it was its name and the facilitator gave us many other ideas ...
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