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Chapter 3. Perspective of the teachers - practicality
of lesson management, even teacher-led (1/3). The teacher who taught the teacher-led lesson explained that it was the students who had asked for more clarity and guidance. It seems, therefore, that teacher-led lessons can also be adaptive!
A few of the teachers working with shared steering observed that adapting lessons to meet students’ needs can mean making choices which are different from the preferences expressed by the students in the self-evaluations, if the teacher notices that they need more guidance.
When choosing how to manage the lessons, in half of the SpeakTeach lessons teachers used the self-evaluations to find out how the students wanted to work on their plans for improvement. In some cases, students were given autonomy over this and they used the self- evaluations themselves to decide how they wanted to work on improving their skills. The aim of this was to make the students more independent and to foster their management of their own learning process.
Table 3.3
Extent to which design principle 3 was applied in SpeakTeach lesson series (n=29) with factors taken into consideration in the choices made
SpeakTeach
design principle
3. Provide adaptive feedback
                 Design aspects in SpeakTeach lessons
       Number of lesson series (n=29)
     Perspective of considerations underlying choices
   L
      A
   P
     Analysis of extent to which principle 3 was applied
Not / Minimal
Maximal
         (score 0) No feedback on student’s recordings, self-evaluation, plan for improvement activities and/or requests for help.
   1
    6
           39
           16
           (score 1) Some adaptive feedback on student’s recordings, self-evaluation, plan for improvement activities and/or requests for help.
  4
   (score 2) More opportunities for giving adaptive feedback as alignment created between speaking activities and input/exercises for improvement which together formed a single block in the lesson series in response to the self-evaluation and fully adaptive feedback on the part chosen by the student him/herself.
6
  (score 3) All feedback adaptive, tailored to learning pathway chosen based on student’s self-evaluation.
  18
     Adaptations
      Peer feedback
  1
    62
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