This lesson has brought new insights in terms of curriculum development. I have realized that assessments are not mere parts of a curriculum but they do serve a crucial role in the teaching and learning processes. A new insight to me is that assessments do not need to be threathening to the learners. These are not used to create fear of the teacher just to gain respect from learners. Grades are not self-identifiers and not for name calling amongst classmates or amongst family members. Another insight is that assessments, to be truly effective in producing life-long learners instead of simple test acers, can be applied in dual principles like constructivist-non-traditional, formative-summative, constructivist-traditional, or informal-constructivist.
The lessons in this module are personally important because they have changed my mindset as an educator. Now, I am more excited to re-develop the curriculum for our online ESL students and for myy homeschool pre-schoolers. These lessons have brought life to the word “assessments” in a way that I have been liberated to become more creative and resourceful at the same time very careful in collecting evidence of learning amongst our students.
Now that I have learned about traditional and non-traditional assessments, I have so many options to choose from to use as assessments for my classes to help them become more life-long learners rather than simply test acers; Because better teachers produce life-long learners…
Better Teachers 