Focus on
Ongoing Assessment

Learners need and want to be able to see how successful they are. … Working from his training plan and lesson plans keeps your focus on his goals and makes it easier to do assessments. Assessment should be part of learning activities. Use it to see what teaching methods are successful and to modify those that are not as effective.(41)

Ongoing assessment has to do with [learning] activity that occurs continuously. [It] has less to do with written reports and far more to do with the interactive, dynamic roles of both teachers and learners. It has to do with responding to learners’ questions every day and with actively noting the kinds of questions learners ask, the ways in which learners respond to print and oral communications, the kinds of mistakes they make, the ways in which they go about correcting their own mistakes, and the ways in which [others] might correct them. This kind of ongoing observation and assessment is inseparable from good teaching practice.(42)