In hindsight, the experience of my teaching practice showed me that the assessment process was not only necessary and a voluntary process, but also a result of inertia. That is, as I moved forward with the content, and monitored the progress of the students, new ways of assessing the progress of the students emerged at every moment. When a goal is clear and tirelessly pursued, the measures to reach it start to become clear. Exit tickets, the five-finger technique, and feedback emerged almost naturally in the classroom. All of these elements lend a certain validity to the work of the teacher and the students. That validity is reflected every time the student uses the language and makes it his or her own to communicate something.
Like everyone else, I am sometimes sceptical, but the truth is that the evaluation tools were able to give me a good record of the learning achieved. Although the truth is that I realized that I still have a lot to learn. The previous knowledge I had about all these tools was also modified during my internship. Those theoretical tools I had read about needed to be brought back and modified to make them useful in my context. Every day of my internship, I learned invaluable things about teaching. A nine-day internship allowed me to see teaching in a new and increasingly professional way. The advantages of constantly monitoring students are many. Mainly, I was surprised that a more specific process can be made for the students according to their difficulties. I can only wonder how much I will learn with more experience and more training. Finally, it is most enlightening that evaluation is not limited to correcting tests, or correcting students while they speak, but is something much more complex and enriching.
Lessons Learned
Assessment is a continuous process that needs to be reflected upon at every moment.
Observation and monitoring are the basic tools of every teacher.
Peer-assessment can be very useful, because students internalize knowledge in order to be able to express it to a third person.
Self-assessment engages the student to take his own studies in a more responsible way.
Summative assessment remains part of the overall assessment process.
The process of systematization of teaching practices is an enriching undertaking for students who are about to become teachers, or novice teachers who need to compensate for their lack of experience. Systematization is to give order to chaos, among all the experiences that a novice teacher has that can make him or her dizzy and confused, systematization gives meaning to disorder. It allows you to look closely, and through a series of guidelines find useful and valuable information.