EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK

 "Feedback is the information communicated to a student in regard to their understanding of shared learning objectives of a given task against an agreed set of criteria. This information will include guidance on how to improve. Feedback is the information that is relayed to the student about their progress and can be based upon a variety of forms of evidence including: marked work, un-graded teacher checked worked, oral contribution, practical displays, draft work and re-drafted work; this information can be relayed to the student in a written comment or in a face to face discussion."
Giving feedback can turn into a problem when teachers do not know how to give it to students; furthermore, giving feedback requires students to have specific goals and teachers to give concrete and useful comments thus, "nice presentation" and " you made a mistake" are not good examples of feedback. Students will wonder what they exactly did good or wrong if teachers do not give specific information on what they did. 
Moreover, when giving feedback, it is also important to give good comments to students if something went wrong during the activity they develop because there will always be some things that students did well, so teachers should be careful and have a well structurated guideline to identify students weaknesses and strengths.
Effective feedback will in fact, give students the opportunity to improve and achieve their goals.





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TEACHER'S CLASSROOM QUESTIONS

"Questioning serves dual purpose in helping a teacher meet course requirements and in developing subject mastery and progress; moreover, it is an essential tool for both teaching and learning; also, it is a significant feature of a lesson and is a great benefit to students’ learning."

Questioning allows students to develop critical and analitical thinking skills. The purpose of questioning is to explore students understanding of the topics as well as challenge them to think. Questioning can be used to introduce, develop or end a topic.

Well structurated questions can create a good environment in the classroom where interaction is promoted and all students are involved.

PURPOSE OF ASSESSMENT

Assessment is a good tool for teachers to understand how to help students in the areas they are having problems with, and at the same time, assessment helps teachers reflect on what they are doing either right or wrong in their classes.

Assesment is needed to make teachers aware of their performance in the classroom. For instance, teachers need to know what their students think about their job, so teachers feel challenged to create a good environmentt in which students feel comfortable enough to learn.

Indeed, assessment is quite important for teachers to improve their teaching methodologies and also to generate a good raport with students since students' opinions in their assessments are taking into account.
 

CREATING INDEPENDENT STUDENTS

Creating independent students is not an easy task. To achieve such goal, we need to have clear that our students will be independent after having been guided by teachers who give their students certain tools that will help students create independence.

The first tool is to assigned students homework that must trigger their critical and analytical thinking.

The second tool is to teach students techniques that help them do preparatory reading. This is extremely useful when students have lecture classes; lecture classes often require students to read a considerable amount of information, so teachers can have active students who are not simple receivers of knowledge.

Finally, teaching students how to research is an indispensable tool that teachers must provide to students if teachers want students to be able to do homework assignments effectively.

To create independent students should be a goal all teachers should have in order to have excellent students.

INNOVATING STRATEGIES TO CREATE A GOOD ENVIROMENT FOR STUDENTS

Innovation in our classrooms is a very important aspect for us and our students to have a successful learning-teaching experience; so, there are many strategies that will make our students feel challenged and motivated in every lesson.

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   Talking: when we create activities designed to develop our students’ speaking skills, they feel challenged to convey their ideas in the second/foreign  language studied thus our students become more self-confidents.

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   Reading: readings involve group work and class discussion. It promotes fellowship and represents a challenge for students when asking to find specific information in a reading.

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  Participation: making our students participate in class makes them feel they are an important and essential part of the lesson. Students feel eager to participate because their comments are always listened.

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    Games: students never forget lessons in which they had a good time. Games bring fun to the lessons and make students have expectations of what is going to happen next.

Undoubtedly, innovating and interesting strategies can make our classes wonderful experiences that our students won’t easily forget.