More than a post I would like to share a reflection
that as teachers we might do or apply in our academic life.
I know that nowadays we are busy as teachers, I mean
we have to plan like every year, semester, or even month. Besides, we have to
make the activities and if you are a teacher where you are teaching kids and
teenager, then you have to create materials, resources, print a thousand of
papers. When you already have a plan, your resources and of course that ugly CD
player or if you are more modern then your Bluetooth speaker. Then when you are
teaching a student is the clown of the class, or other just did something to
other. Worst case scenario: one vomited and then either you clean or wait until
someone else cleans that, depending on the school you work at.
When it's the hunting season (AKA Exam season), it´s
not a real pleasure because you have to check many tests that you fed up with
checking them, and the bonus points: if you let some extra assignments then
more bad news, because you have to also check those things and well I´m not going
to continue because you can get depressed and you won´t finish reading this
post.
Anyways, the question here is: Do you give yourself a
feedback as a teacher? I mean like you analyze what activities were applied,
which ones worked effectively, which others were not that effective as expected.
What aspects would I change?, The objective I reached was the one I wanted?
etc.
They way I do it, is like a soccer coach. First I make
my class plan, then I give the class, I make the corrections if they are needed
to my class plan. Then I check the daily progress, if something is going ok,
then I don´t move it. If I see that an activity didn´t work, I changed it for
another one to see the reaction and how my students work on that one. When the
period is over, then I analyze the good things of the class, and aspects I can
change for the next period or group, also if the activities were the most appropriate
or if I can change some of them. Until now it has worked really well. If it´s
working then I enforce it, if not that´s when I see what´s going on and what
possible changes I can male to the class to improve it.
So that´s all for this post. How do you make your
personal feedback, put it in the comment section, and thanks for reading. See
you in the next post!!!
Feedback is not something Mexican people usually do, but I think is important as it shows us our objective, where we are and what strategies we can use or should change. In my case, I do my lesson plan, apply the activities in my classroom, then I start analyzing if they are working or if I need to make an adjustment while they are developing, finally I write some comments in my lesson plan and think about other possible strategies.
ResponderBorrarThanks for sharing!
I think it has a lot to do with our culture and education, which has not allowed us to advance at all.
ResponderBorrarAnd I'm referring to the fact that if at some time you intend to make feedback, you do not know in what way the other person will take it, so that's why we really didn't do very often.
At the time of planning many situations, but it is really impossible for everything to turn out as planned, so we must be flexible and adapt to different situations that come our way.
When I plan the activities of the lesson plans I think about my groups, the manner they work, their capacities, preferences and their special needs. And it’s difficult to plan because you don’t know if the activity is going to work.
ResponderBorrarThen, I apply the activities and I do the changes if they’re required at the moment when I am applying them.
At the end, I analyze it and If the activity didn’t work I take note about the errors and the new ideas that I think are going to work.
Thanks =)