I’ve found that receiving feedback from my students about the class and my teaching style has helped me become a better educator, and I’ve written several posts about it. I’ve also written extensively about it in my book, English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work.
Today, the Boston Globe ran an article about how a similar process is going to be incorporated district-wide in Boston schools, School Committee OK’s student feedback on teachers.
That article got me thinking that readers might find it useful if I gathered all my related posts in one place.
I’d also love to hear from teachers who use similar formal feedback systems.
So, here are My Best Posts On Students Evaluating Classes (And Teachers):
The Right (& Wrong) Ways To Get Student Feedback On Our Teaching
Results From Student Evaluation Of My Class And Me
Results From Student Evaluation Of My Class And Me (Part Two)
Results From My Year-Long U.S. History Tech Experiment
Mid-Year Results Of My “Experiment”
Student Evaluations Of Summer School Class
How Students Evaluated Me This Year — Part One
How Students Evaluated Me This Year — Part Two (Intermediate English Class)
How My Theory Of Knowledge Students Evaluated The Class And Me
What My Students Told Alice Mercer About Our TOK Class
How Students Evaluated Our Class & Me This Semester
How Intermediate English Students Evaluated Our Class This Past Semester
How My Ninth-Grade English Classes Evaluated Me This Year
Follow-Up To “How My Ninth-Grade English Classes Evaluated Me This Year”
How My U.S. History Students Evaluated Me This Semester
How My ESL Intermediate/Beginner Students Evaluated Our Class & Me This Semester
How My Theory Of Knowledge Class Evaluated Me This Semester
SPECIAL ADDITIONS:
What Teachers Can Learn from English-Language Learners is a nice post from Lesli Maxwell, who is now posting at Ed Week’s Learning The Language blog. It’s about a survey another teacher did with students.
Gates Foundation Minimizing Great Tools For Helping Teachers Improve Their Craft
Videotaping teachers the right way (not the Gates way)
Feedback From Students Becomes a Campus Staple, but Some Go Further is from The New York Times.
The Flipped Classroom: Students Assessing Teachers is from Education Week.
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May 8, 2010 at 9:38 am
I have always had the students evaluate my teaching and how they felt it impacted their success. (I also ask them to evaluate what they could improve in their academic work.) I appreciate honest feedback and will use it whenever I can. Their latest set of comments on the anatomy unit I am bringing to the science department head for consideration in reevaluating the curriculum and biology schedule.
April 28, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Thanks so much for your posts on student evaluations. This year I taught a new course that I had not previously taught, and as the year progressed I formed opinions rapidly on things that I thought I did well, things I knew I wanted to change right away, and so on. But what did the STUDENTS think? Honestly, I was a little scared to ask. However, I took the plunge anyway and created a survey a few days ago modeled after some of the ones I’ve seen on your site. However, I made it anonymous online using Fluid Surveys (that way I wouldn’t recognize anyone’s handwriting, especially if I didn’t like what they said
). So far 10 of the 20 students in the class have responded, and it has (mostly) been constructive and helpful. Thanks for sharing!
April 28, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Holly,
Glad it went well! Do you have a link to your survey you could share as another example for readers?
Larry
April 28, 2012 at 4:00 pm
I have it password protected right now so only my students can see it. When they have all completed it, I will see if I can take screen shots or change the privacy settings.