Hopefully we’re all settled into the new school year and have our routines down again. Students, whether new to the district or established in the culture, certainly have opinions about the environment they’re required to live in throughout the day. Next time you have 10 minutes left in class, harness that knowledge to help improve the school and share some insight with your class on giving constructive feedback. Your teaching team, counselor(s), administration and others will appreciate knowing students’ thoughts and students will have a better understanding of an invaluable life skill!
Context to Provide Students (from Giving Feedback for Dummies):
·Let your students know up front that all the feedback they provide will be anonymous (as long as they leave their name off their paper) and will be shared with staff in the school so they can work to make it a better place.
Context to Provide Students (from Giving Feedback for Dummies):
·Let your students know up front that all the feedback they provide will be anonymous (as long as they leave their name off their paper) and will be shared with staff in the school so they can work to make it a better place.
·Constructive feedback should be specific, centered on issues and based on observations they’ve made.
·When sharing their feedback, they must clearly identify the topic or issue for the feedback and then provide details to back it up.
·Their feedback should be shared by starting out with “I.” Example: “I have noticed…”
Possible Questions to Ask:
·If you could change one thing about the environment at this school, what would it be?
Possible Questions to Ask:
·If you could change one thing about the environment at this school, what would it be?
·Do you feel safe at school? Why or why not?
·What specifically would make this school a better place to be?What’s your favorite thing about this school? If you don’t have an answer to that question, what keeps you from being able to respond?
Leadership Development Tip for September 18, 2008
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