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Equitably Assessing Individual Student Learning During In-Class Activities

Andrew Griffiths (Daejeon Education Training Institute, Korea)

 

Abstract

Teachers need to understand how well their students are following the class content. However, I find that it is often hard to assess how each student is performing individually. Even with a multitude of formative assessment techniques, if there are many students and there is a lot of material to teach, it is easy for some students to "fly under the radar." This is unfair to those neglected students.

What I have thus developed is a strategy to gather assessable data on each student’s individual learning, even in a busy, crowded classroom with limited time available. While this strategy is not perfected yet, it has led to me having a better, more equitable understanding of my students’ needs as individual learners—and so a better connection with them as people. In this workshop, attendees will get the chance to try this strategy out for themselves.

Workshop (in person, 50 minutes)

Teacher Education / Professional Development

General Interest


About the Presenter

Andrew Griffiths is a teacher trainer for the Daejeon Office of Education. He has been teaching for sixteen years and holds an MA and a CELTA.