Students will use this space to post their Professional Readings and the reflections of those readings.
Post the title and URL of the article
and complete the following statements:
• The main points of this reading are...
• This is important because...
• I agree/disagree with this point because...
• In my school/district this might look/sound like...
• Other thoughts I have about this reading are...
This a great idea. Students are the consumers of what we produce so it is vital to hear their opinion on how to reach them. They do know how they learn best and can identify things to change to improve their learning. I have given several teacher feedback surveys through Google form and they have given me a lot of good feedback of what to change and just as important, what to keep the same. Now some of the feedback is not very constructive, but I think every student has something valuable to say it just might take some looking. I like the idea of a professional firm doing this. There is so much analysis and work that can go into a survey that I have no clue about. I think it would be a valuable tool to help teachers adjust and improve their curriculum and class room management.
It would be interesting to allow this to occur. I think there would probably be some pushback from staff on whether or not this information would be used for formal evaluation, or as a tool for bettering education.
I agree this could be used very effectively, however, there are many teachers who literally only have 2-3 students in class who want to be there. Currently there are specific teachers at EHS who have the lowest level of learners and frankly the validity of the scores they would get from students would not be true. Students who struggle with learning may and often do, blame teachers because the subject he or she teaches is 'stupid'. I would worry about those types of feedback, because often times, no matter what the teacher does, ultimately it is up to the student to decide to do the work and learn, even if they hate the class. I think for this to be valid, teaching assignments need to be equalized amongst teachers. Each teacher should have classes consisting of lower performers and higher performers mixed in with the middle of the road learners.
This a great idea. Students are the consumers of what we produce so it is vital to hear their opinion on how to reach them. They do know how they learn best and can identify things to change to improve their learning. I have given several teacher feedback surveys through Google form and they have given me a lot of good feedback of what to change and just as important, what to keep the same. Now some of the feedback is not very constructive, but I think every student has something valuable to say it just might take some looking. I like the idea of a professional firm doing this. There is so much analysis and work that can go into a survey that I have no clue about. I think it would be a valuable tool to help teachers adjust and improve their curriculum and class room management.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to allow this to occur. I think there would probably be some pushback from staff on whether or not this information would be used for formal evaluation, or as a tool for bettering education.
ReplyDeleteI agree this could be used very effectively, however, there are many teachers who literally only have 2-3 students in class who want to be there. Currently there are specific teachers at EHS who have the lowest level of learners and frankly the validity of the scores they would get from students would not be true. Students who struggle with learning may and often do, blame teachers because the subject he or she teaches is 'stupid'. I would worry about those types of feedback, because often times, no matter what the teacher does, ultimately it is up to the student to decide to do the work and learn, even if they hate the class. I think for this to be valid, teaching assignments need to be equalized amongst teachers. Each teacher should have classes consisting of lower performers and higher performers mixed in with the middle of the road learners.
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