#formativeassessment

Where Schools Struggle with Formative Assessment Alignment

Many schools struggle to align formative assessments with curriculum goals—leading to gaps in learning, inconsistent teaching, and missed insights.

Without clear curriculum mapping, assessments often fail to reflect actual learning objectives, making it harder to track student progress effectively.

Formative assessment is a way to check student learning during teaching. It helps teachers understand student progress and improve teaching methods.

Common formative assessment methods include quizzes, homework, discussions, exit tickets, peer reviews, and online polls. These methods help students learn better and reduce exam pressure.

Formative assessment gives continuous feedback to students. It improves engagement, confidence, and academic performance. Teachers can also identify weak areas and provide extra support.

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Top 5 Reasons Why Kids Require the Personalized Learning

Phenomenology

My interpretion of Phenomenolgy is how our consciousness or active mind see things,peoples or objects and how we see it with or without taking actions, admiring , or indifferent with it.

As a design student, I have many goals that I seek to achieve because I want to actively upgrade myself.

For example,during school breaks, I read some design books because I am afraid I might left out some important elements in Graphic Design and this could also give me more ideas and creativity how I am going to implement my works when I learnt new stuffs.In my consciousness,I see Design/Arts/Communication field as a course I am positive with it and want to work hard and get the jobs I desired.

How I implement with it is I download one of Adobe E-books Photoshop and implement to my knowledge.

And I also learnt from Digital Skills classes and applying to class practices.

Images 3 & 4: works I have created in digital skills class.

What i learnt from this class is that Phenomenology is related to human cousciousness all the time.And as a student, we can take notes of our emotions we like or dislike about certain things or emotions we felt or act at the present times.

This can be helpful to understand our strengths and weaknesses if we had done badly on our works and how are we going improve on the situations or help ourselves by planning ahead of the time so that this is a stepping stone to aim our goals and achieved it with happiness and confidence.

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References:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/

By Ronald Angel Maginit

(Set in an afternoon at a small auditorium)

Joaquin reciting a piece he wrote.

Joaquin: “It was a bleak afternoon when I first saw your gleaming face. As the golden hour ray of sun shines upon you, it was nothing short of angelic. A feeling hit me that I just couldn’t explain. It was momentous and as I get closer to you it was like being scorched by the beauty of a star. I suddenly realized that someone exists that could level me with her own eyes.”

Robin enters the door of the auditorium then she matched the eyes of the poet, Joaquin. Joaquin continues to recite his piece as he stutters seeing the beauty at the first sight of Robin. It was like the poem he wrote was intended solely for her. Robin looked towards her friend and had a little laugh as Joaquin’s eyes follow her to her seat. When he finally finished his piece, he immediately approached Robin and introduced himself. Robin in turn introduced herself too.

Robin: Nice to meet you! The piece you wrote was impressive and heartfelt.

Joaquin replied as he stares into Robin’s eyes.

Joaquin: Well, that’s what poetry is for, to  make us feel things we’ve never felt before and to make us remember the feelings we thought we already forgot.

The same day they went for a date and both of them instantly clicked. The blissful hours they spent together turned into memorable days, then turned into passionate weeks, which then blossomed into romantic years. There’s not a day that passed by without Joaquin knowing exactly just what to say which constantly gives Robin butterflies. After all, that’s the beauty of a poet.

One day, while Joaquin was on a trip, he was caught in an accident. He woke up at the hospital with Robin by her side, stroking his head while dearly holding his hand. As soon as he regains consciousness, he had no idea of what happened, and unfortunately, he has no longer have an idea who’s the woman sitting by his bedside. It turns out the event caused him amnesia. It caused Robin a great deal of pain seeing him not being able to remember all the things they’ve been through and especially the love he felt towards her just vanished due to an unfateful event.

Robin did everything to make him remember her, she showed him pictures and even videos of them together. But Joaquin still could not remember her. Months that passed by felt like an eternity for Robin as she struggles to deal with their situation. She was about to give up and starts to pack all her things when suddenly, she found a diary of Joaquin. In that diary wrote Joquin, “To the love of my life, we may not be together every second, every minute, every hour, and every day, but remember that I will always be with you. You’re the greatest poem I have ever seen, beauty, elegance, and wisdom compressed into one person. I love you, my sunshine.” The diary was dated a week before the accident. Joaquin was supposed to give it to her when he comes back. All kinds of feelings rushed towards Robin. She felt happiness with sorrow, she felt ache with love. Robin then pulled it as her last straw. She showed him the diary, it turns out that it was a diary of a compilation of poems written by Joaquin since the day they met at the auditorium. As Joaquin unknowingly skims through the diary, he read a piece, “Time may pass, time may fly, but my love for you will never die. My memory may blur and may forget to appreciate your beauty every day, know that for eternity, by your side I’ll stay.” After reading the piece which he wrote for Robin, he sobbed like a child. And a miracle as they would say, all the memories rushed in, he remembered the feeling of being in love with Robin. He hugged Robin with much grip like he has never hugged someone before. He remembered the day he first laid eyes on her at the auditorium reciting his piece.

Robin then restated what Joaquin told him before.

By Ronald Angel Maginit

A Nostalgic Dialogue ( A Short Story)

A gentleman was strolling in his favorite green and luscious park then as he saw a rusty old bench nearby he sat to gaze at the tranquility that the place impresses upon him. Suddenly, an elderly man sat beside him. As he saw the elderly man he thought that he’s such a familiar fellow but couldn’t quite put a finger on it. Then the elderly man said,

EM: Oh how beautiful this place is! I used to run around here when I was a child.

GM: I bet it was fun. My friends and I too used to horseplay on these grounds.

EM: Yes, the good ol’ days. If only we could turn back time. (smirks in a nostalgic tone)

Then after a while, the elderly man went on his way and so did the gentleman.  A lot of years have passed and the gentleman grew older and came back to his favorite park and wander about. As he was wandering along, he got too tired due to his old age. He sat on an old bench with a younger fellow beside him. As he sat, he sighs with relief to finally rest. He noticed that the fellow beside him took his time to look at his face. It took a moment before the now grown gentleman realized that he’s been in this situation before. It was like a déjà vu for him.

He expresses his appreciation for the scenery.

GM: Oh how beautiful this place is! I used to run around here when I was a child.

All along it was him whom he had a dialogue with on that rusty old bench, at his favorite green and luscious park. Seizing all the nostalgic feelings of the past. Wishing to go back to the good ol’ days.