STUDY UNIT 5

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The study unit 5 is about the importance of assessing, performing art in the f/p, and it is often neglected, there is a reason behind the negligence.

• Lack of teacher’s knowledge of assessment or even art.
• Lack of teacher’s content knowledge or even curriculum as a whole.
• Some teacher’s do not even realise the variety of assessment tool or its importance.

This study educate us as student teacher about the variety of activities like singing, moving, drawing, listening, performing , and also  how we as teachers  can accommodate the various learning styles that will meet the needs and abilities and also interest of these different learners. Assessment it must be included in lesson planning every time educator make plan, educator must state the objectives of the lesson for example "what do I want my learners know or learn and be able to do by the activity". What are the outcome of the lesson. P

Assessment  can help us to use different pedagogies and provide more learning opportunity. Make sure that we provide enough sense of the new concepts and also skills, before giving answers or explanation to new ideas. Ask open question to develop critical thinking. Use learner centred method and also access prior knowledge. Select the suitable assessment tool according to developmental appropriate of the learners.

Again this study unit remind us as student teachers to continuous reflect on their learner’s link lesson content to real life situation and also world around and encourage us to peers scaffolding.assessment is even integral to all aspects of curriculum, it help we as teachers to gather the information about different learners, identify and support them according to their needs. In foundation phase we also have two types of assement  and each type have its own purpose for example formative assessment and summative assessment. This two methods of assessment have different purposes to diagnose learners needs as well.when reading CAPS document it describes the principles of assessment and even explain it thoroughly for example.

Continuous  assessment - is used to identify, gather or evaluate learners performance to enhance learning.

Informal assessment - is the assessment taking place daily during different routines it is even done or recorded an observation book.

Formal assessment - it happened per task per term and even includes activities of all areas. Lastly I can talk about the different types of assessment methods like observation, test, and many others.