Aim: This task explores how to monitor, provide feedback and assess your learners’ online work.

Time: 20-30 minutes

Instructions

Lesedi is an EFAL teacher in Durban who started teaching her primary school learners online in 2020. She now teaches them face-to-face, and also online. All of her learners have access to feature phones, so she takes advantage of this to hold regular WhatsApp lessons with them. Apart from this, her learners work asynchronously with their EFAL workbooks, alone and in small collaborative groups, and share their completed work and projects with her via WhatsApp. When Lesedi started teaching online, she wasn’t sure how she was going to monitor or correct her learners’ online work or how she could provide them with feedback. But now that she’s been teaching online for a while, she has some ideas and tips for how to do this effectively. Listen to Lesedi explain how she monitors and corrects her learners online, how she gives feedback online, and how she assesses her online learners’ work and progress. Listen and answer the questions. The audio transcript for this task is in the downloadable PDF at the bottom of this webpage.