A Feedback Schedule for Teachers from Students
In response to an inquiry on Twitter, I'll briefly outline my feedback template for teachers from students. The suggested questions and prompts identified here will reflect my values but can obviously be adjusted to a different classroom and different set of values. The part that is non-negotiable: You must care about what students think and feel about the classroom experience that you deliver. On Day 1, I do not go over rules, procedures, the syllabus, or anything like that. I ask the students what they want to know or hear about. Once we've exhausted their interests, I ask them to fill out a s urvey (using Mentimeter) in which they build a word-cloud for emotional associations with mathematics. Given the nature of the students I teach, many of the words are negative. I then ask them to make another word-cloud of emotional associations they would like to have with mathematics. We talk about both sets of words and share out ...