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How My ELL History Students Have Evaluated Our Class – And Me! | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

How My ELL History Students Have Evaluated Our Class – And Me! | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
HOW MY ELL HISTORY STUDENTS HAVE EVALUATED OUR CLASS – AND ME!



As regular readers know, at various times during the school year I have my students complete anonymous evaluations of our classes. I advise them that I always make the results public – to blog readers and to our administrators.

Sometimes that commitment results in unexpected situations, like the year The Washington Post picked up on one of my blog posts and published an article with this headline: NEWS BREAK (not breaking news): Teacher asks students to grade him. One wrote: ‘I give Mr. Ferlazzo an A at being annoying.’

I’ve collected many of those posts, along with other articles about the use of anonymous student surveys, at Best Posts On Students Evaluating Classes (And Teachers).

This post will review the evaluation done my by ELL US History students in our full-time distance learning class (theoretically, we may go to hybrid in May).  It’s the first post about a series of surveys I’ve been doing over the past month.

Most of the questions asked students to respond using a linear scale, with 1 being the worst and 5 being the best.

Here’s the first question:

In an ordinary year, I would be disappointed with these results – I’ve usually gotten mostly 5’s.  However, this CONTINUE READING: How My ELL History Students Have Evaluated Our Class – And Me! | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...