1. Students
What would have been your favorite assignment or class material we would have covered in class?
What would have been your least favorite?
What would you like to see more of (what we have been working, any new projects/ assignments) that you will like to see more of during the rest of the semester?
How helpful is the teacher from a scale of 1-10 in terms of explaining any of the concepts that would have been confusing during class?
How clear is the teacher in explaining all of the concepts, and with her instructions concerning any of the assignments?
Does the teacher meet all of your academic, social, emotional needs and if not, what would you like the teacher to be doing more of?
2. Parents (if allowed by your school)
How much time do the students spend in doing their homework during the week?
What do the students report as being their favorite parts of the class if any? What do they usually report about the class or their interactions with peers in class?
What would you like your children be learning more of in school and any particular traits about the child you would like to me to be attentive of while teaching him or her in class?
3. Mentor and Instructor
Is the material developmentally appropriate for the students and differentiated for all groups of students for learning?
How productive is the class, and how interactive is the pedagogy being used triggering participation and interactions among students?
4. School Administrator/ Supervisor /Employer/ Principal
What is parental satisfaction with the class being taught at the moment?
Does the class meet the learning profile and mission statement of the school in bringing about cultural sensitive and globally responsible citizens
- Summary explaining how each form will help you improve your teaching practice. Discuss the types of questions that are unique to each form and how you will accomplish the distribution of surveys. Also discuss how you will organize the data in order to make logical conclusions. Discuss how results will/will not change your teaching.
The form from the students will help develop any assignments of class materials that will be relevant to students’ needs and interests and alter any type of teaching pedagogy to be more effective for student learning. Students would be talking about what worked for them, what didn’t, and what could work in place of those assignments or materials. I will be compiling all the responses and see if there are recurring suggestions or comments throughout the classes and incorporate any recurring comments to develop new content, or alter any parts to meet the needs and interest of the students.
As for the parental feedback, I will be specifically asking for how much students spend with their homework, what they report to have worked or to have liked about classes, and also anything I should be aware of their child carrying out the instructions. Hence I will be able to compile all of these feedback and apply individual feedback to improving one to one relationship I have with individual students as well as develop new curriculum and activities if there are recurring suggestions and or comments that parents have regarding our class materials and activities.
As for the mentor feedback, I will be double checking with my mentor on whether the class is developmentally appropriate and whether students are actively participating in class discussions. And we will come up with ways to be triggering more participation for those sections that might not be participating as much as the other classes, and how I may be able to individualize my teaching techniques for that particular class to activate more student participation.
As for the administrator feedback, I will incorporate level of parental satisfaction into designing of my curriculum and make sure that my class content is relevant to the mission statement and learner profiles upheld by the school. Hence I will be able to adapt any of the class material and assignments to better qualify for the learner profiles and mission set forth by the program and the school.
The teacher seems to be very effective in designing and implementing very interactive and productive classroom with a lot of students participating and eager to be presenting their ideas. The teacher has a lot of visual resources to have them be attentive throughout class. The teacher also has interactive assignments and works throughout class to have them stay attentive and active throughout the classes. The teacher also asks a lot of follow up questions and questions to check with their understanding and comprehension so as to move forward the class. The teacher also has developmentally appropriate instruction strategies involving use of variety of visuals and group work activities to trigger students learning and attention all throughout the class. The teacher also has differentiated learning in that he makes use of both difficult and easier questions to trigger interest of all students. He also calls out names and ask follow up questions to trigger response and interest. And he applauds and compliments students who get their responses correctly and has other students applaud (physically) and acknowledgement of students who get their answers correctly. Students who require these types of compliments might benefit extra (as with everyone else) from these types of public acknowledgement and compliments that teachers should not be hesitant in giving.
It was very much beneficial to be able to annotate the teachings of another teacher teaching a class of similar grade level. I was able to see the gap I could fill in terms of working more interactively with the students, with individual follow up questions, interactive discussions, calling out of names, and more natural interactions I could be having with my students. I’m not sure how long the teacher has been with the class, but hopefully with time, I would be able to develop such interactive class culture with all of the sections I am teaching at the moment, especially with one or two sections where I am facing slight challenge in getting students to participate as much as the other students in the other classes have been doing. The process of my mentor walk me through my class recordings was very similar in nature, and I could see my room for improvement in more productive discussions with class, where students respond actively to many of the questions. Sometimes, the challenge lies in gearing questions or materials that will be developmentally appropriate for the more gifted, active kids, or students who seem to be relatively more quiet in class. It is of my natural inclination to be designing the classes for the more active and participatory students, but I always try to design written assignments that would trigger interest of all students, especially designing peer activities or letter writing assignments that would trigger student participation and participatory learning. I would like to have more annotation activities where I am able to observe other teachers of similar grade level to adopt their pedagogical tools and ways of teaching to my own lesson plans and classrooms.
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