Knowing my Students by Nives Torresi
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Knowing my Students An overview by Nives Torresi
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Getting to know your Students is important for you as an Educator, this is how I do it. I prepared this for my Task 2 Week 3 in the Moodle Practice during the MM4 in the M4B section.
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Knowing my Students
An overview
by
Nives Torresi
Student Analysis
O Preparing to Teach
a particular subject
like English as a
Foreign language
also entails
understanding what
English level your
student is…
O How ?
O Step one use an
effective placement
test
O Step two hand out a
Student Analysis
Form
O Create a basis for
understanding your
students
Free online tests…
O http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/test-your-english/
O http://examenglish.com/leveltest/grammar_level_test.htm
O http://examenglish.com/leveltest/listening_level_test.htm
O The above are ones I have used with my students, I ask them to take a print screen of their result and send it to the class email acount or upload to Google drive.
Paid online Test
O When I need to create groups within a school or organization then I rely on a paid for online reliable test. I purchase the Online Placement Test at the Oxford English Testing website. The price and quality are exceptional.
O https://www.oxfordenglishtesting.com
O Plus I can follow their results in the LMS (Learning Management System) and create groups accordingly.
Now I have their results and the students are divided into
groups or levels…so now I need to know
their ‘needs’
Student Analysis Form
O There are many available on Internet and
in some text books, I have used the
following for Business Students.
O Alex Case says “we can only start
teaching a student when we know what
their needs for the language are”.
O Then you need to create a data base and
analyse the results.
Needs Analysis Form
Transcribing the info into numbers…
Turning it into a graph…
English Level
A1
A2
B1
B2
Links
O Alex Case : http://www.onestopenglish.com/business/teaching-approaches/needs-analysis/needs-analysis-part-1/144573.article
O Needs Analysis form for Business students:
O http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/elt/teachers/busresult/needsanalysis/br_needsanalysis.pdf
O http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/needsanalysis.pdf
O http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/designing-business-english-programmes-1
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