Needs Assessment: CLB 6

Created by Ebony Loewen

Have students fill out the questionnaire below:

Name ____________________ Date ____________________

Answer the questions below.

1.      Do you have any prior English learning? If so, how much and where?

2.      What English skill is easiest for you? Hardest?

3.      What specific area of English would you like to improve on?

4.      Where is the most important place you want to be able to use English?

5.      List 3 topics that you are interested in (government, Canada, families)?

1. ______________________________________

2. ______________________________________

3. ______________________________________

Following answering the questionnaire, play the skittle game.

Have a bowl of skittles ready. Students take turns picking a skittle. Depending on the colour they choose, have them answer the following questions with the entire class.

Red: What’s your name?

Green: Where did you grow up?

Purple: What do you do in your free time?

Orange: What is your favourite thing to talk about?

Yellow: Why are you in this class? Be specific.

Reasoning:

This questionnaire gives the teacher a good idea of where a student is coming from, what they enjoy, what is hard for them and what they personally want to work on. It is a basic needs assessment questionnaire. I tagged on the skittles game as a way for both students and teacher to get to know basic facts about each other. This game is an ice breaker but it also gives the teacher an idea of student’s comprehension when given verbal questions as well as their speaking skills. The thought would be to do this needs assessment in the first class in order to give immediate direction for the teacher but also set a precedent of speaking up in the class and getting students familiar with each other.

My Learning Plan

Your goal for this course:	How are you going to learn it?	How will you know you have achieved it?	How will you demonstrate that you have learned it?	Notes:
- Gain resources of simple assessment/evaluation templates/tools - Understand when and what type of evaluation tool is most beneficial in specific circumstances	- pay attention to extra resources listed in the class - create a list of helpful resources - ask for feedback/help/advice/ experience from peers - pay close attention to types and benefits of evaluation tools	- have a list of at least 7 outside resources/templates/ideas regarding assessments - see the purpose in evaluation tools and match them to specific circumstances  - ask questions!! - participate in the discussion board	- hear a scenario and have a few ideas of tools to use in evaluation - Assignment 4 deals with connecting appropriate assessments with the lesson plan, hopefully this will be a bit of a test for me	- the previous two columns overlap slightly in their answers - I think coming up with great ways of assessing students is only as good as the appropriate type and timing of the assessments.