Assessment Questions

The 4 main learning instructions are learner-centered, knowledge-centered, assessment-centered, and community-centered. The different elements the learner-centered instruction should contain are the students' background knowledge, the students' interest and their social/cultural values. I am not teaching at this moment but, a learner-centered activity could be to have each student pick a famous person of the past or during a certain time frame. Have the students' research their person and role play as their person and give a brief summary of what their person did. The knowledge-centered instruction should contain rigorous content and should help the students understand the material rather than just memorize. Two assessments that are improtant in assessment-centered instruction are formative assessment and summative assessment. Formative assessment measures the learning progress to encourage reflection. Summative assessment is designed to measure the results. Community-centeredness helps explicit values/norms that promote lifelong learning. This helps students and instructors with course expectations. When teachers take their time to do or explain thing it helps get the students cooperation. In return, the students start becoming collaborative in the learning environment. I have not done any community-centered activities yet therefore, I can not share any with you.
You can evaluate your own instruction at any point. It is always good to look back over your instruction. You can evaluate your own instruction by thinking about how your students will respond to the instruction or how you would respond. Would you understand the activity/assignment? Would the students really learn from this assignment? I have no students therefore, I cannot determine if they have become self-evaluative.