Tips on reflection:
Ways to gather feedback about teaching:
WARNING: You must be able to take the feedback!!!
Immediate Feedback:
- Be observant! Watch your students! If they are actively engaged they are following your lesson! If they are doing other things, you have lost them!
- You will need about 3 to 5 mins before the end of you lesson: Have a scale and get your students to put on the scale how they find your lessons (scale of 1 to 10).
The list of questions you can ask them:
“On a scale of 1 is to 100:”
a)do you find this lesson interesting?
b)how much have you learnt in this lesson?
After you try a new method of teaching: (Cooperative learning, powerpoint with animation, differentiated teaching, etc)
Have columns on the board
Get your students to place on the board their preference for the lesson. Ask them: “Do you like this type of lesson?”
(This gives the students a opportunity to stand up and walk around.)
Note: If you have a homeroom system, Have this at the door and give the students small post-Its and ask them to leave their answers on the scale.
Need time to collate:
- Give students a quick survey on paper.
- If you are IT savvy: free online surveys for you to setup and ask your students to go in and respond.
(http://freeonlinesurveys.com/)
You are the best critique for your own lesson. (We tend to be more critical of ourselves then of others.)
- set-up a video camera behind the classroom and watch it when you are at home and have a good laugh. (Sony has this camera that can be record DVD immediately and download to PC without rendering)
(When I saw myself on video, I understood why my student told me she cannot sleep during my lesson because I am so loud!) |
- Use a voice recorder, to record your lesson and listen to yourself.
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