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32. What is your partner's global impression about your performance Activity 32
in this practice?
• In the action approach
Partner
assessment espoused by the Syllabus,
Aspects to improve
seating arrangement has
a definite impact on how
interaction among students
takes place. Traditional
seating arrangements in
rows is not well-suited to
interaction. Little round tables
or in horseshoe fashion can
foster better arrangements to
work in pairs.

33. What is your teammates' global impression about your performance • Remember to foster work with
in this unit? different partners. If this is the
Team first practice you work with in
assessment Aspects to improve
the school year, it is important
to motivate your students to
work with others beyond their
usual group of friends or
classmates.
• Take your time to check what
your students have said about
each other. If there has been
any difficulty, it is the moment
to intervene and allow for a
fresh start at the beginning of
We have arrived at the end of this practice. the upcoming practice.
• The reason for having
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assessment at the end of each
practice is to have a number of
perspectives about performance, which one point of view may be unable to cover.

Activity 33
• Even with time constrains, try not to skip the assessment phases (intermediate and final) of this practice
(or any practice at all). Also, it is important to make the distinction between assessing and grading.
Students tend to conflate them, while they are quite distinct process. Grading should not be made an
activity to hate, but a moment of reckoning what has been done, and what needs to be done, which favors
the development of your students’autonomy.

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