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.
