Questionnaires are great resources for teachers in the beginning of the year to help them get to know their students. Questionnaires give lots of information about the new students to the teacher and can help the teacher determine what info that class already knows or doesn’t know yet.
This part of the chapter reminded me of my own high school experiences and the effective way that my teachers got to know me in many ways. Surveys were one of those ways. I remember taking a few questionnaires and I found them quite fun. I hope to not only use questionnaires at the beginning of the school year to get to know my new students, but I also intend to have the students take “pop quizzes” over some core materials I plan to cover that year. By doing this quiz, which wouldn’t be graded, I can see if my students are above or behind my expectations and adjust my course work accordingly.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Chapter 1: Knowing Students Well
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Blogger deletes multiple spaces, so the traditional use of tab to start a paragraph doesn't work here. You'll have to switch to the style where paragraphs are separated by blank lines. Sorry. :-(
Tiny typo: "Questionnaires gives" should be "give"
all fixed!
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