Classroom Assessment Application Form

The objective of our trainings at Centro Espiral Mana is to increase the capacity of qualified English teachers and trainers-of-trainers in Latin America and world wide.

APPLICATION form for
CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT FOR COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION

at TEACHER TRAINING COSTA RICA and Centro Espiral Mana.

Teacher Training Costa Rica (TTCR), a licensed provider of courses from The SIT Graduate Institute (www.sit.edu) and housed in Centro Espiral Mana (www.espiralmana.org) in rural Costa Rica. The center was started in 2003 and is home to a teacher-training programs, a community English program and other training projects with a local university and high school teachers. There have been over 600 course graduates from 15 countries in the past 10 years. The volunteer-run community-English program has had over 20 volunteers provide language instruction to over 400 students in the surrounding area. We also host students doing internships in TESOL.

Classroom Assessment for Competency Based Education will focus on both formative and summative assessment. Teachers selected for this course will study the principles of competency based education (CBE) and also principles and practices of formative and summative assessment in CBE. The course consists of approximately 80-hours of face-to-face workshops with additional time for the planning of workshops, written assignments, and reading.

By the end of the ten-day program, trainees on the course of “Assessment for Competency Based Education” will be able to...

Describe and analyze key theory in competency-based education.
Describe and analyze principles and practices in formative assessment.
Analyze their own ability to implement formative assessment in their classrooms.
Develop formative assessment tools that they can use in their own classrooms.
Develop workshops that they can implement in their home countries to teach their peers about formative assessment in competency-based education.

Entry Requirements

In order to be accepted into the Certificate course, applicants must:

1)   Demonstrate a clear interest in teaching ESOL and have taught for at least five years.
2)   Demonstrate a clear interest in training teachers and be willing to give workshops on assessment upon returning to home country.
3)   Have an ability to focus on student/teacher learning and reflect upon the impact of one’s own teaching and training.
4)   Have a positive attitude regarding experiential activities and working in groups. This means that you are not only willing to fully participate in such activities, but also recognize the value in doing so.
5)   Demonstrate English language proficiency (CI level on the CEF or TOEFL 550 non-native speakers)
6)   Complete the application form and a short essay.
7)   Complete an informal phone interview will be conducted by and SIT Trainer.

BEFORE filling out this application form we suggest that you:
1. READ through the form
2. Prepare your two documents that you will upload (your resume and the written statement)
3. Make sure that your name is in the name of each document

Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you!

Application Form
Classroom Management: Conflict Resolution, Emotional Intelligence and Compassionate Communication for Educators.

Please submit this form here online. If you do not hear from us within 3 days please email us at admin@espiralmana.org

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Please upload your RESUME OR a document with your educational and work experience including companies/schools, position held and dates. OR you may submit the information below

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Teacher Training: Describe your teacher training experience. Where have you worked with developing teachers? What workshops, course and contexts? (Make sure to include the name of the institution where you gave the training) *

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Self-introduction: Please write a brief statement (between 3 and 8 sentences) about yourself to be shared with others before the course starts *

Short answer questions:

1. Why do you want to take Assessment for Competency Based Education course? *

2. What for you is challenging about classroom assessment? *

3. What are your biggest strengths and challenges as a teacher of ESOL? *

4. What are your strengths and challenges as a teacher trainer? (if you are a teacher trainer!) *

5. What do you plan to do with your new learnings when you go back to your home country and school? *

6. The course is offered in a small town in rural Costa Rica. We are far from cities and many activities. Are you ready and willing to commit to one month of intensively thinking about and working on teaching English in this rural setting? *

Written statement:
Please submit a 400-500 word response to the following statement:
(make sure your name is part of the name of the document you upload)

Choose one of the two following quotes and discuss how it reflect something that you think is important about assessment and the role of assessment in learning.

1. The research indicates that improving learning through assessment depends on five, deceptively simple, key factors

the provision of effective feedback to pupils;
the active involvement of pupils in their own learning;
adjusting teaching to take account of the results of assessment;
a recognition of the profound influence assessment has on the motivation and self-esteem of pupils, both of which are crucial influences on learning;
the need for pupils to be able to assess themselves and understand how to mprove.

Black, P. & Wiliam, D. 1999. Assessment for Learning: Beyond the Black Box, Assessment Reform Group, University of Cambridge, School of Education

2. From today's cognitive perspective, meaningful learning is reflective, constructive, and self-regulated. People are seen not as mere recorders of factual information but as creators of their own unique knowledge structures. To know something is not just to have received information but to have interpreted it and related it to other knowledge one already has. In addition, we now recognize the importance of knowing not just how to perform, but also when to perform and how to adapt that performance to new situations. Thus, the presence or absence of discrete bits of information-which is typically the focus of traditional multiple-choice tests-is not of primary importance in the assessment of meaningful learning. Rather, what is important is how and whether students organize, structure, and use that information in context to solve complex problems

Dietel, R.J., Herman, J.L., Knuth, R.A. 1991. What Does Research Say About Assessment? North Central Regional Education Laboratory, Oak Brook

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Application Form Classroom Management: Conflict Resolution, Emotional Intelligence and Compassionate Communication for Educators.Please submit this form here online. If you do not hear from us within 3 days please email us at admin@espiralmana.org

Application Form
Classroom Management: Conflict Resolution, Emotional Intelligence and Compassionate Communication for Educators.

Please submit this form here online. If you do not hear from us within 3 days please email us at admin@espiralmana.org