LiterateLife

The Learning Network Listserv has just had a great conversation about The Teaching/Learning Cycle (TLC) (this is a transcript of the discussion at www.rcowen.com). This is the very first concept teachers need to know about when they begin teaching. I have been to the TLN Institute twice and it changed my whole way of teaching.

ASSESSMENT

 Any act of teaching begins with the assessment of a student’s ability to use a skill or knowledge of a concept. I was taught in college in the late Eighties, early Nineties, that assessment was the LAST step in the cycle. The teacher teaches the curriculum, then assesses understanding. Responsive (and economical!) teaching BEGINS with assessment, though.

I will focus my blog when the school year starts on how I am applying the TLC in my work as in-class ESL support for science teachers in my school.