The Main Reasons You Should Seek Your OWN Student Feedback

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Merely teaching your students based on the approved curriculum is not enough. It is essential to understand what the students think and feel about your teaching. Therefore, as a teacher, you must not hesitate to spend some time getting your student feedback. This can be done via a student feedback survey that allows the students to indicate their academic problems, needs, and desires.

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Perhaps you are uncertain about why you should seek your own student feedback. Here are the main reasons you need to consider.

  • To boost student engagement

A typical student feedback survey will ask relevant questions about the activities that the students find to be the most interesting. Therefore, the feedback can allow you to determine the activities that your students like or detest. With this knowledge, it will be easy for you to design your lessons in a way that will be engaging to the students.

By boosting student engagement, you will be able to satisfy the needs of your students. They will be more enthusiastic about attending your class. Unsurprisingly, this will make a big difference in the learning process of the students.

  • To ensure differentiation of your students

When you have various students in a class, you should understand that they are all unique individuals. However, test scores and grades cannot assist you to understand the differences between your students. They cannot help you to know students that are doing lots of extra works to perform well in class. Test scores and grades will never show the students experiencing poor academic performances because of other challenges they are dealing with.

Nonetheless, if you seek your student feedback, you will get all information you need. Hence, you can differentiate your students. Over time, you will have little or no challenge with adjusting your teaching to take care of the needs of the students.

  • To promote preventive discipline

Through student feedback, you can easily get more information about the experience of each student under your tutelage. With the information, you can customize your teaching to enhance how you relate with each of your students. At the end of the day, this can assist you to improve the management of your classroom.

Once you have managed your class appropriately, the students’ experience will become better. Also, you will enjoy teaching more.

  • To preserve yourself

Teacher evaluation programs have become an essential part of lots of schools. These programs allow students to provide feedback on their teachers. Based on the feedback, the school will evaluate the appointment and promotion of the teachers.

As a wise professor, don’t wait until it is time for teacher evaluation programs before knowing how students feel about your teaching. You have to be proactive by using your student feedback to evaluate your students’ experiences. The feedback will afford you an opportunity to make necessary modifications to your teaching before the official evaluation programs.

So, if you want to preserve your job and improve your chance of getting a promotion, you need to conduct a student feedback survey.

  • To address or prevent bullying

No matter how attentive a teacher is, lots of things can happen in a class behind her back. One of such things is bullying. As a teacher, you can capitalize on a student survey to get information about bullying among your students.

With a discreet student survey, many timid students will feel safe to share information about anyone bullying or harassing them. For instance, if a student indicates disinterest in attending classes, you may probe further by asking for the reasons. Any information gotten from the survey can help you to address issues associated with bullying in your class.

However, you may struggle to see many of these reasons if your student feedback survey is not well structured. In view of this, you need to make sure your survey is discreet. This is to ensure that each student can share their opinions without revealing their identity to you or their classmates. Also, try to make the survey open-ended so that the students can talk about other things you might not have thought about.

If you can implement all these things, you are bound to enjoy the benefits that your student feedback can offer.

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