When I was still in Elementary and High School, I’m very conscious to my grades so when my teacher announce that we have a quiz or exam, I felt pressured and anxious because I want a high grade or else my parents will get mad at me most especially my father, in which I will receive a punishment. There is an instance that I almost receive a failing mark and my teacher called the attention of my parents, my father came to school and my teacher talked to him. My father talked to me and I take this situation as a motivation to study harder. Since then, I study until late at night to prepare for the upcoming periodical exam. I’m worried because if I fail this exam, I will be a repeater next year. I took the exam and my teacher gave to us the result. I got a high grade and I belong to top 10 who got a high score from the exam. I felt proud to myself and I reward myself by playing an online game at home. This instance gave me a positive response to a depressing situation.

Aside from a positive response to a depressing situation, I also have known that his response is negative. It affect his mental health. We took our board exam in 2010 and both of us studied and prepare harder, however he failed the board exam and I passed. After the result came out, I can’t contact him anymore and he deactivated his social media account. It became traumatic experience for him. And after almost a month, we already contacted him and he somehow recovered from failing the board exam. On his second take, he passed the board exam last 2011. And this year 2020, he passed the US board exam for nurses in just one take. Failure won’t define our lives, it will serve as a learning experience and from that situation we will take it as a motivation to succeed in life. However, some people failed to cope from the situation and worst case it lead to suicide.

Assessment is a good indicator of how well our students learned from our discussion. However, graded or data driven assessment create a pressure and anxiety to them. Because for them high grades defines their learning. Some teachers take the grade as the basis of their assessment, maybe we as educators should do a combination of our assessment as graded and non-graded to make it “friendly” and non-threatening to our students. Students, should also see to it that success doesn’t define high grades but how they learn and understand the concept.

Self and Peer assessment are helpful how students evaluate their colleagues/ peers and also assessing themselves using self-assessment, this would help the teacher to see the perspective of the students among their peers. Although this is subjective, some students would grab this opportunity against their peers. On the other side, if the students are friends with their peers, they could also use the peer assessment to give high grades among their colleagues. These two instances would defeat the purpose of the self and peer assessment. The other one getting a false low grade and other one is getting a false high grade.

I would like to share my experience on this, I assess myself honestly and assess also my peers giving them a high grade that they deserve. Although, one of my peers gives me a low grade that I think I don’t deserve. I also read her reasons and it really make me feel depressed. Although I take it as a feedback for me to improve and move on from it. Getting those kind of evaluation would affect our feelings but it must not affect us too much, instead we should learned from it and move on.

Giving the feedback properly is a good way to encourage and motivate the learner. Though some stakeholders like teachers, peers and parents does give pressure and punishment to the learners and it creates a trauma or affect the learners’ mental health status. One of my experience is, one of our class in elementary gives alot of pressure to us. Before our class with that subject, we make sure that we studied or else if we fail to answer the questions of our teacher we would stand the whole class and we could only have our seat if we gave the correct answer. Also, one of my teacher would slap a stick on our hands if we gave a wrong answer. It is painful and traumatic experience but it allowed us to cope and study harder. Although, I also have a good teacher. She is very considerate and would talk to us privately if we got a low score on our exam. She would even motivate us by giving us a reward.

For me, giving pressure and punishment would somehow give learning to the students but a large portion of traumatic experience would always linger to their mind whenever an experience would be repeated. Giving a right feedback like the one that my teacher taught us, “Kiss-kick-kiss” allow us to be motivated and at the same time would consider the suggestion or recommendation of our classmates and teacher so that we could improve on our work.

Way back in my preparation for the Nursing Licensure Exam, my mind is passing the board exam defines my success. This makes me feel motivated and at the same time, I felt pressure and anxiety as the board exam draws near. I even can’t sleep properly. Good thing I have supportive family and friends to encourage me and throw away the rat in my chest. Board exam is the most threatening assessment that I ever had, though its exchange is a fulfilling dream and happiness when I passed. However, for those of my classmates who didn’t passed the board exam felt depressed and cut their communication on the social media by deactivating their account. As the years goes by, some of them passed on the second try and third try, some of them already gave up their dreams. The pressure brought by the high stakes assessment makes a learner to prepare well for the exam and not just trying their luck. On the other hand, to make it less threatening, I think we should change the culture, because if the student failed, it affects his/her mental health, and worse case is would lead to suicide.

A combination of both traditional and non-traditional assessment would make a better assessment, a mixed of objective and subjective approach. In traditional assessment it allow the students to recall their knowledge and in non-traditional assessment allow them to dig in into their understanding and ideas, it allow them to question the questions and develop a creative thinking.

Learning the differences of FOR, OF and AS for the Assessment allows me to identify their differences and when should I used them. Like Assessment for learning allows me to use this method to assess the pre-requisite knowledge or skills of my students so that I would know I would I teach them on the topic that is to be discuss. Also Assessment Of Learning is an evaluation of the students’ learning on the topic that was discussed, this can be done in summative assessment like periodical exam, unit test, etc. Also, the Assessment As Learning is a continuous process that would allow both the teacher and the students to do a self-assessment from the topic that was discussed, these would further improve or develop the instructional materials or design of the course.

Also, aligning the assessment from the learning objectives is also a good way to evaluate the students learning, if the learning objectives are met or achieved by the teacher.

As a newbie college instructor, since I’m not an education course graduate, all I know before was just to administer an exam to evaluate my students. But this course allows me to better assess my students’ learning so that teaching learning process is effective. Before, I don’t assess my students’ pre-requisite knowledge or skills, I proceed immediately to the discussion. Whereas, assessing their pre-requisite knowledge and skills would allow me to have knowledge on how would I deliver the discussion so that they could also participate in recitation.

Lastly, before I don’t appreciate the feedback from my students, colleagues and department head, because I thought it is negative feedback and I felt depressed or offended. However, it allows me to improve my teaching to better develop my teaching pedagogy and instructional materials. Feedback is not always negative, it is positive. Meaning it is both positive and negative. Happy Learning!

I thought teaching students would only need to prepare the lesson plan and teach the students. But it require more than those to assess the needs of the stakeholders like students, teachers and institution, to prepare, plan and address the concerns using knowledge, skills and attitude. Developing and refining more on the needs assessment like curriculum, learning modules, training of faculties, preparedness of school on the delivery of online classes using the Learning Management System, etc. Simulation of this mode of delivery can better address the concerns that might arrived during the actual implementation. Though there will be some glitches along the way, it can be address by cooperation and proper collaboration among the institution and its teachers. Yes, we are all new to this online learning that makes the education a sudden shift because of the pandemic. We can grab this opportunity to learn more on this kind of education system. Learning from this, we can adapt this when pandemic ends and we comeback to face to face teaching.

I’ve been working as a college instructor for 3 years, since I’m a nurse by profession, I don’t have any background on teaching. Not until I enrolled to PTC program of UPOU. the courses open my eyes to the reality of teaching environment. Before, I thought teaching is just teaching. You teach and evaluate your students. But it is not. It has an underlying basis of teaching and assessing the students’ learning.

This module allows me to appreciate more in making an assessment for my students by using the cyclical assessment. It allows me to revisit, reevaluate and re calibrate my materials and activities for my students. It would also allow me to enhance and develop more my teaching approach and assessment towards my students. I won’t benefit from this alone but also my students, it would allow them to master the subject matter and understand the topic in a deeper way. This cyclical assessment allow both the teacher and the students to adapt to the change. A continuous change on the materials and activities of the teacher and continuous or repetitive explanation or activities that would allow them to fully grasps the subject matter.

There is a saying, “there is no permanent in this world, except change” A continuous change is for the improvement of ideas and knowledge.

When I was still a student, I always memorized everything on the lecture gave by our teacher. Her exam is often objective type, it is either multiple choice, fill in the blanks, identification or enumeration. I only memorized and not fully understood the meaning of it. Then after the exam, I often forgot everything that I memorized because it is only on my short term memory. But if the exam is essay, I need to understood well the concepts to answer the essay. I often read and understood from the heart the lecture that my teacher gave to us. And true enough, even after weeks or months, I can still remember the concepts and ideas of the topic. Also, receiving feedback from my teacher helps my learning, feedback allows me to increase my knowledge and develop my skill competencies.

In our current situation of using online learning, I opposed to my co-faculties in giving an online exam of multiple choice to our students. Because our students might cheat and the purpose of assessment is defeated. Another situation will be, does our students did their assignment? Because I experience it from my student before. She had a good research output but I doubt her work. So I compare it to her previous research and found out that even the construction of her sentences is different.

Assessing the learning of our students is vital on our role because it is the basis of their understanding and learning on the subject matter. We as teachers should guide them on their learning. We should also reach out to them if they really understood the lesson well. Giving feedback to their assessment would also allow the students to improve themselves.

This is my 1st sem at UPOU under PTC program, at first, I thought online learning is boring (because of my previous experience). But as I go along with the course, I find it interactive inspite of it is online. For Assignment 2, I was grouped with Mam Jamia, Mam Patricia and Mam Rica, and our group was named Kamansi. At first we are shy to one another and just completing our assignments, but now, we are already close friends. We motivate one another to finish the course and we also share our learnings and insights in each Learning Theories.

Studying and understanding each learning theories, allows me to change my perspective in teaching. Each theory that I study allows me to realized the importance of learning to me and to my students. Before I’m resistant to change my teaching style which is traditional, because in college we are encourage to incorporate outcome based education to teaching. Since I’m my undergrad course is not education, I became resistant to change and still stick to traditional teaching style. Good thing, I enrolled PTC at UPOU and in this course, I realized to change my perspective and apply my learning from this course to my teaching approach. I’m also willing to share these learning to my co-faculty and encourage them to shift to Outcome based education and use Contructivism theory.

I would like to thank Dr. Malou for making this course interactive and for attending to our inquiry. Thank you Dr. Malou for your patience to us. Indeed, experiencing Dr. Malou as FIC is both learning and memorable. Hope to have you again as my FIC on my other education subjects.

My belief on teaching approach is just teach. There is a saying that everyone can teach but not all can teach properly with guided teaching style. I’m currently working as college instructor in one of the colleges in paranaque. In my first year in teaching, Outcome based education is being implemented by CHED to colleges for the upcoming 1st year who graduated from K-12 curriculum. It is hard for me to teach using Outcome based education without proper education from Teaching, because my belief in teaching approach is the so called traditional teaching approach which is teacher centered. So for 3 years I’m still adopting to using Constructivism teaching to my students.

This kind of example are very common to educators, most especially to college because not all college instructors doesn’t have proper training on teaching approach which affect the learning of our students. I’m glad that I enrolled to this program.