I was thinking long and hard on whether to get my students to evaluate me as a teacher and my teaching in their class, and then I was scrolling through twitter and I saw a post, which was something along the lines, that if you're not asking students to evaluate you, then your missing out. It was a SIGN. I pinched the questions (sorry, can't remember the website) and modified it so it fit with my classes. Here are the questions below:
1. What was your favourite unit and why?
2. What was your least favourite unit and why?
3. Is the work in class easy/hard/challenging or good in your PE classes?
4. Do you feel your assessments are fair?
5. How easy is it to approach me with questions or concerns?
6. What do you like most about my classes?
7. What do you like the least?
8. What else do you think I should know?
I was then thinking on how to ask these questions. Whether I should do it as a class, where we have a discussion. Whether I should give a paper questionnaire or to post it onto Showbie, where it is optional and they can do it in their own time. I went for the Showbie option, mainly because it gives students time and they would probably feel more comfortable sharing it individually rather than a class. Also, my students hate wasting PE team for written work. The only issue with posting it on Showbie is that my students are not very good at submitting work on time at the best of times, so I'm not expecting too many responses.
I've had a few in so far and the only feedback that is consistent so far is they don't like it when there lesson time gets wasted because of other students misbehaving or disrupting others.
Go on, give it a try and let me know what you found out. I'll update this blog post next week to let you know what I found out.