Student Assessment Reflection

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INTRODUCTION

This is a report of a delivered session in a core subject to a group of mixed ability pupils in the Reception A class. Keep in mind that they are a group of students ranging from the age of 4 to 5 years old, energetic, curious and active learners. I need to consider the ways of how they learn best by carrying out assessments or diagnostic meetings to identify their preferred learning styles, abilities and interests.

Neil Flemming developed the VARK system in 1987 to determine whether a student is a visual, auditory, reading/writing or kinaesthetic learner. From there, students and teachers are able to formulate new strategies based on which category they learn efficiently. Instead of doing the 16-point questionnaire, I chose to determine my students’ learning styles through play and games. Observing children play certain games may hint me a great deal about how they assimilate new information.

Play is a very serious matter....It is an expression of our creativity; and creativity is at the very root of our ability to learn, to cope, and to become whatever we may be. (Rogers & Sharapan, 1994, p.1)

Being placed here for the past 1 term (4 months), I was given the opportunity to shadow and observe the Reception A students. It makes me wonder about how I want them to learn every time when I look at my students. I decided that I want my students to learn through interaction.

According to Vygotsky (n.d.), humans use tools that develop from a culture, such as speech and writing, to mediate their social environments.

(Vygotsky’s Social Development Theory – work cited in Learning-Theories.com)

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I chose to deliver a lesson on English. The aim for the session requires students to identify and percei...

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...romote effective learning. If I could provide these opportunities to them, it would serve to be very rewarding.

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES

Rogers, F., & Sharapan, H. (1994). How children use play. Education Digest, 59(8), 13 -16.

Learning-Theories.com - Social Development Theory (Vygotsky) [Online], Available at: http://www.learning-theories.com/vygotskys-social-learning-theory.html (Date accessed 12th December 2011)

Lampert, L., (2011). Tips & Techniques to Appease Various Learning Styles [Online], Available at: http://www.ehow.com/info_12144296_tips-techniques-appease-various-learning-styles.html (Date accessed 12th December 2011)

Quick, R., (2011). Teaching Strategies for Different Learning Styles [Online], Available at: http://www.ehow.com/info_12027207_teaching-strategies-different-learning-styles.html (Date accessed 12th December 2011)

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