The Key Points of the article are…
The article focuses on surveys handed out to students at the end of the school year. The author Grant Wiggins comes up with a theory and suggests that it would be beneficial to the students if we didn’t wait until the end of the school year to ask what went wrong and what they would change for next year. Instead, Wiggins suggests we ask our students on a daily basis. Therefore, teachers can modify their lessons for their current students to better understand instead of waiting to change things that didn’t work for the upcoming school year. Wiggins made a very important message about the students voice should be heard and I agree that it shouldn’t be in June, but in fact all year long. The article made a good point about the types of questions the survey should ask. Many surveys today are multiple choice questions and students have no option to put any thought it into their responses and most surveys ask what students “liked” not about what “worked” during the school year. Overall, creating surveys asking for students input about your teaching is important and can have a great impact in the classroom.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because…
It gives the students the opportunity to state their opinion on how they feel class is going. By handing out students teachers can begin to see why some students find their science class difficult, why students think class is boring, why the majority of the class doesn’t like going to English class etc.… The majority of surveys today ask what students liked about class, what they liked about their teacher and so on. As a result, isn’t effective at all because of course students are going to say they liked field trips, liked there was no homework on Fridays. But if teachers start getting feedback from their students, they can get a head start on making the class a fun, enjoyable learning experience for the CURRENT year. Not waiting until the next year to make changes.
