Assessing the climate of our classrooms
September 27
Please watch the following video before our meeting and start considering ways you might assess the climate of your classroom. After viewing the video, you might reflect on the following questions:
- What does it mean?
- How do you understand it?
- How does it make you feel?
- How does it connect to other discussion topics?
- How does it connect to other topics, contexts, or experiences?
- What other questions does it raise?
Meeting Agenda:
Meeting Agenda:
(Discuss all together 10 mins)
(in small groups 30 mins) Share successes/challenges from your personal teaching experience. Do you have any hesitations or concerns implementing this in your (future) courses?
(in small groups 10-15 mins) Discuss any of your immediate teaching needs/concerns
Potential Action Items & Resources:
Potential Action Items & Resources:
Ask a peer to observe your teaching.
Consider using this teaching observation feedback form (courtesy of Dr. Rebecca Noonan Heale).
Create a survey for student feedback.
Create an introduction survey for Day 1 of your course. Here is a example.