Students are in the classroom, so should they not be given the opportunity to speak out and have opinions? Joshua Block, a Humanities teacher at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, thinks so. He wrote an article, Learning From Students, for Edutopia discussing just that.
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Student feedback can heath teacher assess if certain methods, and teaching styles are working well for the students. Also, maybe the the students' are completely bored-teachers could try to do something about that. In college, we fill out evaluations for professors that may help them for the following semester. This article provides several options that teachers could do in an elementary school level. One way that I really like is by giving students a choice. Giving them a choice between how to do an assignment opens up a platform for communication and can be very beneficial in the classroom.
I really enjoyed this post! I also believe that student feedback is an extremely important aspect in ensuring the students learning and that teachers need to be more accepting and aware of this. One way that I have thought about incorporating student feedback in regards to teaching is having an anonymous thoughts box where students can put feedback in at any time during the year to let me know what is working, what is not, and ways that we can tweak our lessons.
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