Assessment is vast!  Effective assessment requires an awareness of any number of parameters.  As teachers, we need to be cognizant of our reasons for doing assessment and the feedback we hope to receive in return.

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McMillan, reminds us that the collection, interpretation and use of this data is meant to help improve student learning and that assessment is more that just testing or measurement (2014). Students are definitely at the centre of my teaching world.

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As an English for Academic Purposes teacher, I recognize that much of my planning, instruction and assessment is learner-centred.  Language is an active medium and instruction in a language program is live and sometimes very unpredictable.  I like this, as it leaves room for those incredible teaching moments.  Our curriculum and in class performance is interactive and our goal is always to engage the student as much as possible.  Much of the curriculum is centred on real life matter, be it planning for their post-secondary studies or thinking about cultural diversity and how it impacts their view of a particular context.

 

In considering other curriculum designs, I see elements of grammar, that might lend themselves to a more fixed, subject-centred approach, but in my experience students flourish much more in a blended environment with opportunities to scaffold their learning and practice at every opportunity.

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Below you will find an extension of my learning to include assessment, as it relates to Concepts of Curriculum.  We mapped our original thoughts on Mindmeister, but felt is was important to extend our new found knowledge in Prezi.  Please enjoy.

 

I must also give thanks to my partner Halgan Ahmed for working with me on this Prezi.

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Link to the Prezi:  Module 3: Conceptions of Assessment

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