As regular readers know, I usually have students in my class do anonymous class evaluations three or so times each year (I don’t just wait until the end because then it’s too late to make any adjustments, at least for that class).
You can find many related previous posts at Best Posts On Students Evaluating Classes (And Teachers), and you can see how my ELL History students evaluated me at a post published a couple of days ago (HOW MY ELL HISTORY STUDENTS HAVE EVALUATED OUR CLASS – AND ME!).
I haven’t done them as often this year because I’ve been meeting regularly with Leadership Teams in all my classes and inviting – and receiving – a lot of candid feedback that has helped me make a number of changes as this year of full-time distance learning has progressed. One of the best changes that has come out of those discussions is making sure that there is enough in-class time to complete assignments so that students don’t have homework to do (except, of course, if they are absent from the class).
One student did give me an F, though she said it was for “Fantastic.” That’s better than 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.’
Here are the results of last week’s student evaluation (I think the answers to the last question are the most CONTINUE READING: How My Theory Of Knowledge Students Evaluated Our Class – And Me! | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...