Activity 1: Definitions of Learning Teaching and Assessment

Activity 1: Definitions of Learning Teaching and Assessment


Determine your own definitions, based on your experience and thinking, that will help you to formulate your learning, teaching and assessment plan:

Learning:
• Taking an idea, subject or skill that can be, but isn’t always of interest to the learner and developing or increasing your knowledge of that particular idea, subject or skill, and in turn allowing the learner to pursue what it is they really want to do long term. (Example: An acting student who also has to learn skills in movement & dance but actually doesn’t enjoy or like dance but has to do it to pass their acting course & gain their qualification).
• Being given the chance to explore, experiment & be creative with your own ideas, techniques & concepts as well as others’.

Teaching:
• Being so passionate about something you want others to learn/participate/share the passion of the subject.
• Passing on information & skills that at one time you would’ve learned from someone else who was an expert in that particular field.
• Giving learners the best experience you can in your subject.
• Passing on life skills (confidence, respect, awareness of other etc).
• Making people aware of your subject and its role in society.
• Never stale, staying current and up to date allows for fresh knowledge to be passed on to the learner, therefore making the subject even more interesting and accessible to the learner.

Assessment:
• A tool to show the learner how much knowledge they have gained and retained on a particular idea, skill or subject without any help or guidance from anyone else
• A tool for the teacher to show how much the learners are taking in and if learners are making the same mistakes which could mean there is a flaw in the teaching method, or it has to be simplified or more time spent on that particular section of work.
• Evidence to show the work has been completed and the learner has passed the unit/course and is capable of moving on to a higher grade, unit, course.
• It’s something to work towards to make the work seem worthwhile and keep you progressing forward (especially if you don’t enjoy it). It’s a clear indication to the learners that the subject, idea, etc they have been working in is completed.