| Valuing feedback from the students |
6/9/04 8:36 AM |
| Author:
Steve Bang
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Schools and teachers need to be much more open and imaginative about engaging with students and getting feedback from them than they have. They also need to press teachers to continue with ongoing professional development to stop the stagnation and high departure rates that often characterizes teachers after seven years in the job. Teaching, and possibly medicine, are possibly the only professions where customers are traditionally considered unable to make any formal contribution to measuring effectiveness.
New technology is making things like online surveying of students much easier - that can have good formative and summative value. Asking students on-line what sort of classroom environment they would like or dislike in their classroom, and how likely they think it is to happen engages students, encourages consequence thinking, and also gives teachers much needed feedback for their professional development. I think novel, innovative approaches like this are needed to meet public expectations.
Posted as a reply to:
NCLB's "Highly Qualified Teachers" Requirement and Charters by Bob Montgomery 
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