The significance of peer observations has been emphasized in English language teaching as a powerful tool to support understanding and development of one's teaching beliefs and actual practice.This thesis first pr...The significance of peer observations has been emphasized in English language teaching as a powerful tool to support understanding and development of one's teaching beliefs and actual practice.This thesis first presents the position and necessity of employing peer observation in teacher's professional development with reference to the literature,and then it outlines the process of the author's implementation of peer observation in classroom in terms of pre-,during-and post-observation.Data interpretation provides more insights into the strengths and problems of the author's classroom teaching and arrangement,and the possible solutions accordingly.展开更多
Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, ...Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, most of students don't know how to give feedbacks and what feedbacks should be given. Therefore, some strategies should be used to help students to make more effective feedbacks and stimulate students' interest to actively learn from their peers.展开更多
Among the two commonly identified ways of assessment,summative assessment aims to measure,or summarize,what a student has grasped,and typically occurs at the end of a course or unit of instruction.While the formative ...Among the two commonly identified ways of assessment,summative assessment aims to measure,or summarize,what a student has grasped,and typically occurs at the end of a course or unit of instruction.While the formative assessment,which is characterized by the needs of insiders,is distinct in that it focuses on learning through assessment and the role of the learners in this process.As is well known,teachers' role in the classroom assessment is geared to formulating and scaffolding learning on the basis of on-going feedback from internal and external assessment sources.Peer review,on the other hand,is also an important component of the process of developing assessment.During the formative assessment in the EFL classroom,classroom teachers' evaluation as well as students' active peer scaffolding in group works play important roles in the decision making process.Although the formative and for learning perspective is quite different from the summative and of learning perspective in terms of theoretical and educational orientation.Neither students nor teachers should be ignored in the whole process for formative assessment.展开更多
文摘The significance of peer observations has been emphasized in English language teaching as a powerful tool to support understanding and development of one's teaching beliefs and actual practice.This thesis first presents the position and necessity of employing peer observation in teacher's professional development with reference to the literature,and then it outlines the process of the author's implementation of peer observation in classroom in terms of pre-,during-and post-observation.Data interpretation provides more insights into the strengths and problems of the author's classroom teaching and arrangement,and the possible solutions accordingly.
文摘Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, most of students don't know how to give feedbacks and what feedbacks should be given. Therefore, some strategies should be used to help students to make more effective feedbacks and stimulate students' interest to actively learn from their peers.
文摘Among the two commonly identified ways of assessment,summative assessment aims to measure,or summarize,what a student has grasped,and typically occurs at the end of a course or unit of instruction.While the formative assessment,which is characterized by the needs of insiders,is distinct in that it focuses on learning through assessment and the role of the learners in this process.As is well known,teachers' role in the classroom assessment is geared to formulating and scaffolding learning on the basis of on-going feedback from internal and external assessment sources.Peer review,on the other hand,is also an important component of the process of developing assessment.During the formative assessment in the EFL classroom,classroom teachers' evaluation as well as students' active peer scaffolding in group works play important roles in the decision making process.Although the formative and for learning perspective is quite different from the summative and of learning perspective in terms of theoretical and educational orientation.Neither students nor teachers should be ignored in the whole process for formative assessment.
