The EFL Pre-service Practicum: Supporting the Triad
A resource site for university-based supervisors, teacher mentors and pre-service teachers involved in EFL practicum
Reflection Tools for Mentors
Most often in assessing the quality of pedagogical work, we tend to rely on our own intuitive judgments. Although these judgments can be sound, it is also useful to sometimes more explicitly and systematically reflect on the basis of our assessments.
There is considerable value in using reflection tools to make more visible our assumptions about the basis of positively or negatively evaluating teaching performance to provide higher quality insights as a mentor. To assist this process, we have assembled some tools that you can use with pre-service teachers to explore their practices.
Click on these links to explore these reflection tools
1. Reflexión acerca de nuestras prácticas docentes
2. Reflexión – Acompañamiento Primera Clase
4. Reflexiona acerca de la última clase realizada
5. La escritura como herramienta de desarrollo professional
Specific lesson observation tools
If you are thinking about how you might reflect more effectively on specific lessons, then you might also find these tools useful….just click on each to access them.
1. Lesson observation, ratings format
2. Lesson observation, competence scale 1
3. Lesson observation, competence scale 2
4. Lesson observation, assessment scale 1
5. Lesson observation, assessment scale 2
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Formative skills and process assessment
If you need a rubric for making formative assessment decisions, perhaps this Rúbrica Analítica Para la Evaluación Formativa may also be useful. currently process rubric
Alternatively, this process skills template, Evaluación Del Proceso de la práctica professional, may also be useful in framing your assessment of preservice teacher development. currently process rating scale
Final Report rubrics
The final report rubric is a critically important summary of a pre-service teachers’ overall performance in the teaching role. To assist in shaping your approach to this task, some example end-of-placement rubrics can be found by clicking on these links.