http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/05/20/the-last-day-of-class/ ...For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:45:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/05/20/the-last-day-of-class/comment-page-1/#comment-4982 Michele Fri, 22 May 2009 00:01:28 +0000 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=3745#comment-4982 I agree with you that it is important to give students time to evaluate your class and you as a teacher. I begin the year with a survey about students' expectations and I end it with a survey on experiences. Surveys provide me with an honest reflection from the most important people in my career - my students. The other thing I do during the last few days is pass around my "yearbook". As students share and write in one another's yearbooks, I pass around a small spiral bound journal in which students can choose to leave me a note. After teaching for 8 years, I have a collection of irreplaceable, memory-invoking notes from many of my students. It is a pleasure to read and really allows me to look back and put my career in perspective. I agree with you that it is important to give students time to evaluate your class and you as a teacher. I begin the year with a survey about students’ expectations and I end it with a survey on experiences. Surveys provide me with an honest reflection from the most important people in my career – my students.
The other thing I do during the last few days is pass around my “yearbook”. As students share and write in one another’s yearbooks, I pass around a small spiral bound journal in which students can choose to leave me a note. After teaching for 8 years, I have a collection of irreplaceable, memory-invoking notes from many of my students. It is a pleasure to read and really allows me to look back and put my career in perspective.

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