Reflection on doing reflection
First blog post! 😄 Its been a month plus since I started my teaching journey at AES. One thing that caught my attention was that many students in AES care a lot about their grades. After sitting for their weighted assessment, many would come anxiously asking if they passed or did well. When I return the scripts to them, the first thing that most students would do is to compare their marks with their peers and proceed to take out their calculator to calculate if they met their target grade. While it is good to be motivated to want to excel and achieve their target grades, I felt that students also need to understand that assessment is for learning and personal growth. As a result, I started a simple reflection exercise with my classes. After going through the corrections and markers comments for the WA, I got the students to take some time to reflect on their progress and jolt down their responses for the following questions: 1. What is one area that I did well? 2. What is one area for...