Learning to teach ESL

I have attached a digital copy of my Final Self-Evaluation Report in this blog entry. It includes a list of my strengths as a teacher, areas for improvement, my focus for the future, and a reflection on the student teacher evaluation. It also contains a list of my practicum teaching reflections, my student evaluation questions and results, and a list of comments received by my students from the evaluation.

This needs assessment is targeted for a classroom of English language learners who are at the CLB 1 level since I have experience volunteering in a classroom for foundations literacy to CLB 1 level students. Since learners at this level have little English knowledge, the teacher must read and explain each question while the class follows along. I used tasks and learning goals related to the four language skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing).

This assessment would be used as an ongoing assessment that would examine the learners' skills, interests, and priorities related to a new unit. I chose health/medicine as the subject for my needs assessment since health-related tasks are often difficult for newcomers to navigate, especially those with little English knowledge. This needs assessment focuses on the importance that learners' place on goals/tasks related to health/medicine and how well they believe they can do them. Learners must circle the values that represent the level of importance for each goal/task and personal ability. Information from this assessment would be used to centre lesson planning on a specific task while using activities with different skills to support the students' learning.

We were instructed to create a graphic about needs assessments this week. The outline for this week's unit provided an example of a graphic that provided information about diagnostic assessments. The example listed information about when the assessment should be done, why it should be done, and how it should be done. We were asked to answer the same questions about needs assessments using our own resources. My graphic is shown below.

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