Class assessment

Assessment is a fundamental part of the teaching process. In a simple way you could say that there is no teaching process without having an assessment process. Assessing in a course is when the teachers evaluates, process and develop a proper feedback. It is a very important part of the teaching-learning process because it is where, both teacher and student, can see how much the student has learned and what is he lacking of. That way teacher can tell the student and both can modify their strategies to improve the learning of the student. There is something very important when we talk about assessing because there is a big difference between assessing in a classroom and assessing in a distance course. 

Assessing in a classroom is a very simple process. The teacher can see the student work and the way he is working, developing and acquiring knowledge. Also, teacher can make different tests to check the understanding. The important part is that in a in-class course teacher can see the students reactions and see if it is working or not. On the other hand, we have distance course classes, which are just a little bit harder to assess. It is not imposible and some teachers could think it is easier but I think in a different way. We could see the assessment in a distance course as something easier because it is only a matter of checking their homework and evaluating that.But it is important too to think in the process of their work and to try to understand the real meaning behind the words and checking if that is really what they understood and they learned something. That is what I think is the most important part. WE as teachers must learn to identify the style of the students and within their stlyes check their learning is real. As language teacher we have many tools to understand the message within the text. We can use the key in the language to understand what is happening with the writer of the text. We must use those tools to verify that indeed the student is writting with real knowledge.

There are many ways in which we can assess the learner of the students and it is not necessary that we only work with exercises. We can use other tools on the internet, for example we could ask them to give their opinion or their idea of an specific subject and do a forum or a discussion board to work with. Make them change ideas in those boards with the teacher working only as an observer. Teacher should only verify that they are working and solving their doubts.