TEACHER'S CORNER

INTRODUCTION TO THE SELF-ASSESSMENT PAPERS FOR ENGLISH LESSONS

Using the self-assessment papers children will be able to think over some of their real learning abilities. They will be able to ask themselves questions such as: “If I am in London, can I ask where Buckingham Palace is, or some information about an important event, or can I understand what somebody answer?” Or even “Can I understand what I am reading?” If children ask themselves such questions it means that they are getting more and more conscious of their learning process. In this way they will become active elements able to drive their learning abilities towards upper targets or to find better didactic strategies in order to overcome difficulties, or accept any defeat, mistake or inability. So it is important to point out the great formative value of self-assessment; a way to make students aware of what teachers are teaching to them so that they together, teachers and pupils, will eventually become active partners in a process that will make both richer and will broaden their knowledge of themselves and of the others. Being able to do “self assessment” it means to enlarge minds, shun stereotypes, pregiudices, impositions and free creativity in a magic world where the words racism, intolerance, incomprehension don’t exhist and where children, boys and girls, men and women, old persons and people coming from different countries meet together and share experiences getting richer all together.

Self-assessment papers:

• Ascot
• Portobello Market
• Virgin Megastore