Timeline for How do you respectfully give a teacher feedback about their teaching?
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| Sep 26, 2014 at 4:01 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | @jinovacho: I think the honest answer is that though some are more naturally gifted at teaching than others, for almost everyone it takes a certain amount of time to develop good teaching instincts and practices. Also, I don't mean to present too much of a Catch-22, but: getting useful feedback from your students is also a skill. Saying to the whole class "Please give me feedback about how to teach better" is distinctly better than nothing but may or may not be enough to get the desired response. How to elicit meaningful student feedback sounds like a great question for this site! | |
| Sep 25, 2014 at 11:21 | comment | added | jnovacho | @PeteL.Clark This is a quite a problem for me. I just started teaching one course and it's a first time in my life I actually teach a group of people. So ad 1) where should I get the experience/judgement if the students aren't cooperative? | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 23:43 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | Well, I think all of these are part of good teaching: (i) having the judgment/experience to run the course in a useful way from the start, (ii) successfully soliciting meaningful feedback from the students and (iii) implementing that feedback in a helpful way. If you start out too far off the mark then you will, honestly, lose your chance with some of the students. There are also more and less effective ways to ask for feedback: the instructor could, for instance, have students turn in feedback for some course credit. So like most things in teaching, it's a two-way street. | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 15:58 | comment | added | ddiez | @PeteL.Clark not sure if agree. The teacher is giving the opportunity to change the problem. The students are not taking that opportunity. The teacher can change things after evaluating the students if most of them fail. But until then, what else can he do? If you have any suggestions on this I would appreciate your comments! | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 15:54 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | "If the quizzes are of little help to everyone, and the teacher is asking for feedback on his teaching style, and nobody says anything, then the blame is on the students." I would say that the blame is on both the students and the teacher at this point. | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 15:01 | history | answered | ddiez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |