Hi TAC learning community:

It's been an incredibly busy weekend with all the chores and activities but it's been a productive one though (look at the half full glass). Now let's get back to our main focus that keeps us hooked which is the theme of quality education and its factors. Can we examine the education process without taking into account its surroundings?Accrding to the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortegay Gasset saying"I'm myself and my circumstance",the education paradigm relates to its factors; teaching,learning and assessment. The quality education embraces preparing students not only for writing tests but also for the future.When the assessment of learning focused on the teachers' teaching the content, students doing the assignments and a test is held at the end of a unit or term to see what students retained, the results reflected only a temporal ability to answer practiced questions using rote memorisation. On the other hand,assessment for learning gives students who did porly on an assignment or test the opportunity to redo, relearn and show evidence of learning.This is why all students shoul engage in pre-assessments and mid-unit assessment to help teachers determine what students need to know and how they are going to get their students learn it..a golden rule:pinpoint the learners' strengths, be clear about any weaknesses and how to improve, andprovide multiple evidence of learning in your class. Correction doesn't guide, encouragement does. This one is inclusively for me. Amira