Introduction

This shows you some useful and low-fuss ways in which you can find out from your students how the class is going for them, and ways in which they can give you ideas on how to make this, or the next, class work even better for them.

Getting feedback from your students outside class (4.2)

Sometimes you want more systematic feedback, and you want to have more time to think about the feedback and what to do with it. This shows you simple and efficient questionnaire methods to obtain useful feedback on your teaching.

Getting feedback from your peers (4.3)

A teaching colleague can give you perceptive and informed feedback. You can learn a lot from watching someone else teach, and also from giving them feedback on what you see in their teaching. Here is how.

Second words

These sources are available in the OCSLD Resource Centre.

Gibbs, G., Habeshaw, S. and Habeshaw, T., 53 Interesting Ways to Appraise your Teaching, Bristol: TES, 1989.

Brown, S. and Race, P., Assess your own Teaching Quality. London Kogan Page, 1995.