{"id":271,"date":"2012-09-19T10:20:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T10:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosarioconsulting.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/?p=271"},"modified":"2012-09-19T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T10:21:00","slug":"feedback-is-the-breakfast-of-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/feedback-is-the-breakfast-of-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedback is the breakfast of champions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Finspiredtoeducate.net%2Finspiredtoeducate%2Ffeedback-is-the-breakfast-of-champions%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rosarioconsulting.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/breakfast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-272 aligncenter\" title=\"breakfast\" src=\"http:\/\/rosarioconsulting.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/breakfast.jpg\" alt=\"Feedback is the breakfast of champions\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/breakfast.jpg 400w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/breakfast-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am constantly working to improve my course design and my teaching\u00a0methods. I do my best to keep up with the current trends in education\u00a0and I hold myself to high standards. I work hard to provide the best\u00a0learning experience that I can. Given that I am early in my teaching\u00a0career, I know there is a lot of room for improvement. My classroom\u00a0experience to this point is limited and I rely heavily on feedback\u00a0from others. This feedback takes many forms.<br \/>\n<strong>Classroom visits.<\/strong> Every semester my supervisor visits my classroom.\u00a0Unlike some people, I look forward to these evaluations. I truly value\u00a0the opinion of someone with MUCH more experience than me.<\/p>\n<p>Show me yours, I&#8217;ll show you mine. I also seek out feedback from my\u00a0peers by comparing notes with other professors that teach the same\u00a0courses that I do. This is particularly useful when trying to work out\u00a0the logistics of a new technique or lesson plan. It also allows me to\u00a0get an accurate assessment of the rigor of my courses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student outcomes.<\/strong>\u00a0 My primary goal is to guide each of my students to\u00a0an acceptible level of mastery of the subject matter. I can use my\u00a0exam grades, homework assignments, etc to assess how well my students\u00a0understand the material. In an ideal world all of them would receive\u00a0A&#8217;s because I&#8217;m just that good of a teacher. It doesn&#8217;t quite work out<br \/>\nthat way. I truly want my students to learn. I&#8217;ve come to accept that\u00a0not all of them have that same goal. I&#8217;ve stopped getting upset and\u00a0emotional when the class doesn&#8217;t perform where I want them to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student evaluations.<\/strong> Every semester my students fill out the\u00a0standardized course evaluations provided by the college. I don&#8217;t\u00a0receive the results until well into the next semester. For the most\u00a0part, these have been overwhelmingly positive and there is very little\u00a0constructive feedback. In an attempt to gather more useful input in a<br \/>\nmore timely fashion I put together my own anonomous online surveys\u00a0with two simple questions:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are three things that you like about the class?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What aspects of the class would you like to see improved? (2 or 3 things)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IzgaUOW6GIs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I use <a title=\"Google forms\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IzgaUOW6GIs\">GoogleDrive to put together the surveys<\/a>, I email a link to all\u00a0of my students and the results are collected in a spreadsheet.\u00a0Although not all of my students participate, the responses I do\u00a0receive are incredibly useful. The criticism is more constructive and\u00a0thorough than what I receive on the end of semester evaluations. This\u00a0form of immediate, midstream feedback allows me to make minor\u00a0adjustments in my courses that make a big difference in terms of\u00a0student satisfaction. I think my students appreciate that I make an\u00a0effort to listen to their needs.<\/p>\n<p>What other forms of feedback do you rely on?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jackpix\/107626591\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jackpix\/107626591\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Finspiredtoeducate.net%2Finspiredtoeducate%2Ffeedback-is-the-breakfast-of-champions%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am constantly working to improve my course design and my teaching\u00a0methods. I do my best to keep up with the current trends in education\u00a0and I hold myself to high standards. I work hard to provide the best\u00a0learning experience that I can. Given that I am early in my teaching\u00a0career, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,6,12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}