In my last post (End of the Year Teaching Tips) I discussed the importance of allowing students to evaluate their teachers and provided the evaluation form that I used this year.

At the end of that evaluation form is an area for students to write in their own comments/suggestions…So this year I decided to take the teacher evaluation a step further and put up a list of short response statements on the board for the students to complete.

Below are the statements the students completed at the end of the form:

1. My favorite unit/project we did this year was…….because…..

2. My least favorite unit/project was…..because….

3. The most boring thing we did this year was……

4. The most important thing I learned this year was…..

5. Three goals I have for next year are…….

6. This class would be better if…….

7. The easiest thing we did in class was…..

8. The most difficult thing we did in class was……

9. I still don’t understand…….

10. If I were the teacher of this class I would……

Obviously, I could have created more, but I felt that these 10 statements would truly give me an honest student perspective of my teaching and let me know what areas of the curriculum I need to work on for next year. In all honesty, I get much more out of these student evaluations than I ever did from my administrators evaluations.

Just remember to keep it anonymous…it’s not about who is saying it, but rather what they are saying…

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