Here’s something any teacher (and probably by extension any school) should be thinking about:
How useful are the views of public school students about their teachers?
Quite useful, according to preliminary results released on Friday from a $45 million research project that is intended to find new ways of distinguishing good teachers from bad.
Teachers whose students described them as skillful at maintaining classroom order, at focusing their instruction and at helping their charges learn from their mistakes are often the same teachers whose students learn the most in the course of a year, as measured by gains on standardized test scores, according to a progress report on the research.
Makes sense intuitively. And makes me think again how important it is to take on board the feedback from students. Next step, I suppose, is to design a feedback form (to go a long with the how can I improve board)