Learning needs to be an adventure! An incredible adventure in which the learners are the protagonists of their own journey, while the teacher (instructor) works like a marvelous GPS, guiding and giving feedback of the twists and turns.

For this to come true, the instructor must adapt to the learners’ needs, and provide a proper assessment that would give continuous directions to students as they learn.

At the beginning of this journey – cause yes, this CEP813 is our own adventure, we created an Assessment Design Checklist with two questions and evidence of understanding for both.  The purpose of these questions is to guide and help us understand if an assessment is in the right track.

By this week, a total of five questions and their evidence of understanding were due. Nevertheless, a lot has changed since we start walking through the path of assessing.  We have learned about Learning by Design, Accessibility, Technology Resources, Apps and Universal Design. We learned to give corrective feedback, we learned to receive corrective feedback, we learned about formative assessments, we learned about assessments for learning and assessments of learning; and furthermore, we learned to share with our peers and instructor our thoughts, doubts and works.  I think, by learning to learn, we learned to teach.

We have been transferring our knowledge!