That was a 4 out of 10 Sir! The Value of Regular Student Feedback
Well, after the rather lengthy philosophising of my first post, here's a quick overview of an approach which has been working well for me recently. Inspired by reading Teaching As Leadership (many thanks to my HOD for gifting it to me) I took these steps: Talk to the students about 'Big Goals' – setting quantifiable, measurable and ambitious achievement goals with them. In our case, it was to achieve ten marks of progress between their Eng Lang mock and the real exam Talk to them about what would be needed to achieve these goals – basically, good lessons from me, and real effort from them Give them an exit ticket at the end of every lesson, on which they had to note what they'd learnt, then give a mark out of 10 for the quality of the lesson, and the same for the degree of effort they thought they'd put in Begin each lesson with a report of the previous lesson's scores, and a quick reflection on whether it was good enough to keep us on track or not (...