Stepping off to creating course rubric, I had lot of thought, what to do, where to start, what it should contain, and so on. It sound like simple, but it was hard enough. I think it was because all the course should be considered in a page or into a simple rubric. Important components should be included, as well the organization of all parts should be made. I tried to make course rubric in my way as my own product. It was hard and challenging at the same time. What interested me most way, there exist vertical and horizontal way to evaluate the course. It could be one of the concepts to create the rubric.
Designing course was ‘challenging’ itself. It shows everything from the purpose to assessment, to day or week plan, to activities in detail. The students had to be measured in their needs, grade, and English proficiency. The course should be focused on the purpose. The standards, goals and objectives had to be well-matched. The contents and activities had to be harmonized in order to maximize the effectiveness of the course purpose. Assessment should be there adequately to reflect and make an effect to improve the students learning. Even the context of the classroom had to be taken into account. All in one.
Like mentioned in the textbook (Graves, 2000), underlying teacher’s belief, all the components should be considered in and from various ways. As times to technology society, and more being in complicated interrelationship, and constantly changed society and human, teachers should be more challenging and not fear to be changed. Accepting more ideas and make it into mine appropriately will produce more creative and fruitful course.
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We, educators must continuously improve our uses of measurement in order to facilitate quality learning and growth. Frankly speaking, to make a rubric and design language course are most difficult assignments in the whole course but it’s very helpful for me.
ReplyDeleteRight. Designing course was ‘challenging’ for me since it was the first time to create my own course. As you mentioned, it shows everything from the purpose to assessment, to day or week plan, to activities in detail. However, we should thinkg that the plan or design of the course is not the course, but a part of course development. Course design is part of the complete cycle of course development which includes planning the course, teaching it, evaluating it, and replanning it based on the evaluation, and then teaching it again in the replanned version, and so on(Grave, K., 2000, p.9). Therefore, we keep modfying and redesigning it for students' need and level. Anyhow, I am so happy that we learned a lot from this course and we all finished this course well :)
ReplyDeleteAs you mentioned, course design must contain everything from the goals & purpose of the course and assessment, to day and week plan, to detailed activities in each lesson. Moreover, the standards, goals and objectives must be well-organized and well-matched with one another. In additon, the contents and activities in the course must be organized in order to reach the main goals of the course. In addition to these considerations, assessment should be right there to improve the students learning.These kinks of consideration should be well organized. In short, to design a terrific course, we should approach in a micro as well as macro way at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI really like your mentioning that "What interested me most way, there exist vertical and horizontal way to evaluate the course."