Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Assessment is the teacher's job! Some pupils have strong views about the teacher's "job" and their own role. They say things along the lines of: "In English, we have partners that you swap books with and assess each other. The teacher then takes them in. I don't like that and I feel like the teacher should do it." "We sometimes assess our own work in Science - it's a waste of time." What would you do in these kinds of situations to get the students to not be as dependent on the teacher for their learning? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I would link this type of assessment to real world situations. There will be times as an adult that you have to evaluate co-workers or bosses. You will have to determine your own level of understanding during job training in order to insure you do the work correctly. When we give real world examples, students tend to understand better why we are requiring them to do something in the classroom.