Seeking Student Feedback
Seeking Student Feedback At an elementary school PLC in the fall, our teachers resolved to seek student feedback. Since then teachers have used surveys, classroom meetings, face-to-face meetings, and simple questions at the end of lessons or units to garner feedback. Doing so has increased student voice and leadership, created stronger learning partnerships and has improved instruction. As a classroom teacher, I learned the value of seeking student feedback from a fellow history teacher. At the end of each unit, he encouraged me to ask: Was this unit too hard or too easy? What were your favorite parts of the unit that I should keep for future students? How would you recommend I improve my teaching for this unit? The feedback I gained from these questions was so valuable, that I sought more real-time feedback from students, especially seeking feedback for new lesson designs. A couple of years ago, I saw ...