TEACH-NOW

Pre-Assessment for Differentiation Pre-assessment helps teachers know student’s prior knowledge and skills about a topic, which is very useful for lesson planning and class teaching. The topic of this unit is holiday. There are different levels of students in the class. I used the Quizlet to design a pre-assessment for students. With 5 past tense statements and pictures, students can choose learn, flashcards, write, spell, test, match and gravity to test their knowledge about this topic. Here is the link of this pre-assessment: https://quizlet.com/_4gn7mf   Different from traditional paper test, this is much more fun and engage students easier. The mind map outlines the innovative differentiation strategies for students at three different levels, and identifies assessments for tracking students.  Through the use of this mind map, I could really see the benefits of putting the different ability groups in order. This allowed me to praise based on ability w...

High stakes assessments are the most common test in China with a long history. From pre-schools to universities, high stakes assessments are the most frequent ones used by teachers and schools.   The school I am working in now is a private school. The principal of our school has a pretty advanced education concept: Let students learn the practical knowledge and skills in games. This is exactly what I want to do as a teacher. Therefore, we don’t have many big tests compared with the public schools. We have high stakes assessments twice every semester at most. The most important of these is the one at the end of the term which is going to determine whether students can move to the next level. Our high stakes assessments are written tests which usually take 1 hour to 2 hours in different subjects. Teachers always use the last week to help students to review for the tests. There are no rewards and bonus for teachers after the tests, but all teachers still try their best to help st...