Negotiating with learners‚ e.g. initial assessment‚ agreeing goals and actions Initial assessment is the beginning of a teacher/learner relationship‚ allowing the teacher to identify and discover learners with difficulties and disabilities if the learner is confident to talk about them. By recording this information‚ plans towards teaching can be made so every learner feels included and progress in their learning experience. The information will determine the learners starting point; the learners may already
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4 Understand how to involve learners and others in assessment 4.1 Explain the importance of involving the learner and others in the assessment process Assessment is all about making judgements. A major argument for involving students in self and peer-assessment is that it helps them to develop the ability to make judgements‚ in particular about themselves and their work. This is an important life skill as well as an academic one. If an assessor wants to observe a specific piece of evidence but
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The Good Learner Good learners are good listeners precisely because the motivation to listen plays one of the most crucial roles throughout their learning process. Michael Nichols‚ PhD‚ once quoted in his book‚ The Lost Art of Listening‚ that “To listen is to pay attention‚ take an interest‚ care about‚ take to heart‚ validate‚ acknowledge‚ be moved and appreciate.” (p.14). When learners are motivated to pay attention and take interests‚ the desire for self-learning naturally take place. As their
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Negotiating with Learners It is important at the start of any learning experience for learners to have a clear understanding of their prior knowledge‚ skills and current learning needs. To assist learners in taking ownership of their learning experiences‚ teachers can initiate negotiations with learners through the prior use of discussions and assessments to enable negotiations to take place through reflective discussions‚ resulting in establishing personalised learning agreements. As highlighted
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motivated‚ active learner? A self-directed learner is someone who is very independent in learning and does not fear to be self-disciplined in learning. He or she takes responsibility for their own learning. An intrinsically motivated learner is someone who participates in learning activities because of an inward satisfaction of contentment rather than the outward rewards. An intrinsic learner derives inner pleasure from learning. He or she is motivated internally. An active learner consciously engages
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begging of the qualification so the assessor can see if the learner has skills‚ competence and knowledge to complete the qualification. The assessments are on-going throughout the qualification. The assessments give opportunity for the assessor to monitor the progress and performance of the learner and enable them to record achievements. Within the assessments the assessor can identify learner’s needs. If it is identified that the learner is struggling it will give the opportunity to look at other
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What is Learner Autonomy and How Can It Be Fostered? Dimitrios Thanasoulas The Internet TESL Journal 2. What is Autonomy? For a definition of autonomy‚ we might quote Holec (1981: 3‚ cited in Benson & Voller‚ 1997: 1) who describes it as ’the ability to take charge of one’s learning’. On a general note‚ the term autonomy has come to be used in at least five ways (see Benson & Voller‚ 1997: 2): • for situations in which learners study entirely on their own; • for a set of skills
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ways that a person can learn‚ some through a combination of multiple. There are auditory learners‚ there are visual learners‚ and lastly there are kinesthetic learners. An auditory learner is one who “has a preference for the transfer of information through listening: to the spoken word‚ of self or others‚ of sounds and noises. These people will use phrases such as ‘tell me’…” (citation 2). A visual learner is one who “has a preference for seen or observed things… These people will use phrases such
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Assignment 2: focus on the learner 1- Background to the learner: My student is called Samir Salem Abdullah Al-Ahsani. He is an Omani student working as an employee in the Bouhelba Company. He speaks Arabic which is his mother tongue and a little English. He’s at the elementary level at Polyglot Institute. He first studied English in the Omani public schools where he didn’t learn much according to him. He felt he couldn’t respond ‚when talked to in English‚ and needs to improve his speaking
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Focus on the Learner Shahid Adam Esat Word count: 1055 Learner Profile Gaby Kabengue is a 20 year old refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has been living in Johannesburg‚ South Africa for just over two months and attends the English language lessons offered at Language Lab. Gaby has a lively persona and a keen interest in learning the language‚ it is for these reason that I chose him for this assignment. Although Gaby holds no formal higher education qualifications he has had some
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