Expected, Inspected, & Respected.
"We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience."
-John Dewey |
"We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience."
-John Dewey |
On the second last day of my winter practicum, I gave my students the opportunity to give me some feedback to improve my teaching. These are the results: Section 1: Evaluating Teacher Skills (Explicit Curriculum) Section 2: Evaluating Teacher Skills (Implicit Curriculum) Section 3: Other Thoughts So, there are some actionable items for improvement here. It's an easy fix to slow things down and write bigger. I only wish I'd known earlier so I could have made the adjustments right away. Maybe during my next practicum block, I should have students give me a simpler evaluation on a weekly basis, where they could write one thing they liked about my teaching, one thing they didn't like, and any suggestions they might have for improvement. As for the comments about a repetitive schedule, that was the point: consistent effort towards a goal - read and write every day to become better readers and writers. I also think that one of the reasons I rarely had any behaviour issues in my ELA classes as compared to my social studies classes (even though they were the same students) was that they knew what to expect, knew what to do, and knew how to do it because of the repetition. This evaluation was also written before we played Wits and Wagers and Minute to Win it games during our holiday party on the last day of school before break, so the fun was yet to come. I wanted to use Google forms for this teacher evaluation because it automatically gives you such a lovely visual representation of the data. However, as I didn't have ready access to the computer lab, the students filled out paper questionnaires and I input all of these student responses over the winter break.
As I was entering responses on our home computer, Andrea asked, "Don't you have a computer in the classroom?" And I said, "Yes, but only one - not enough for everyone to fill out a form at the same time." And she came up with the brilliant and obvious idea of just having students fill out the form one at a time while the rest of the class was reading or writing. I will remember that for my practicum in spring.
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David Wiebe
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