This year I decided to put a lot of trust in my students; I gave an end of year survey. I let them know that I wanted their honest feedback. I adapted questions that Grant Boulanger had posted on his site. Here are results: |
- We did a lot of hand gestures. This helped me put words with pictures.
- Doing movie talks this year helped me learn words that went along with a story so that we had some sort of context when learning the meanings of words.
- Reading a story and having vocab that relates to it.
- We did a lot of practice over everything and she used stuff like past tense in stories so we get familiar to it.
- Nunca quiero tarea, pero tarea me enseñó mucho español.
- Quizlet live was fun and helped me learn.
- We read different stories that had new words that we learned. We got to act out scenes in stories to help me understand more about what they meant.
- The music in the beginning of class.
- The videos and movies really helped as it was visual and so I learned the vocabulary better than I would have looking at a note sheet.
- Reading the Berto and Isabella novels helped me.
- That we used the same vocabulary for a single story repeatedly.
- The movie talks helped me learn a little bit of Spanish, but not as much as other activities.
- Not being able to repeat a word when learning vocabulary. Only allowed to use the gestures
- Doing the motions with Vocab helped me a little bit, but I think me personally learned it better when it was used in stories.
- I don't usually have the motivation to try to get better when we don't have tests (as frequently).
- Beginning routine (Date, season, time...) because it is just review and we already know that.
- I don't think that FVR helped me learn much Spanish because it was hard to figure out the meaning of words with context clues when I couldn't understand those either, and when I could figure it out I usually couldn't remember it.
- There wasn't really any activity in particular that we did this year that detracted from my learning of Spanish, or that didn't teach me anything new about Spanish. Everything we did in class everyday helped me in different ways to learn more Spanish.
- 5 a Day hula
- I liked the homework assignments.
- The stories.
- The homework was much better than other classes. I actually learned something from it.
- I liked sharing our cultural homework with the class, especially the Spanish food homework assignment.
- Señor Wooly and 5 a day
- I enjoyed how fun of an environment it is and how comfortable I feel while trying to speak Spanish.
- The music played in the beginning of class
- Getting to pick the homework
- Your generous grading technique for tests and homework. :)
- I liked the freedom we had with our Spanish homework because it was easy to complete it because we did it our own way. It was fun homework too so it was easier to get done.
- I like how we did many different activities in class other than just reading off of paper and circling the words we didn't know. I also like how whenever we would read there is so type of follow up game that helps clarify words and understanding things.
- My favorite thing about Spanish class this year was when we got to do gallery walks of everyone's Spanish homework. It was fun to teach people new things about Spanish culture, and it was interesting to learn new things about Spanish culture from classmates. - It was also nice to take a break once in a while and just walk around and talk to people about Spanish culture.
- Probably learning different sentences and phrases that we could actually use. I can now speak some Spanish to my sister who is in 10th grade.
- Learning in a comfortable environment with my friends and a great teacher
- When Liam became a horse and then pooped and peed
- When we have fun and got to laugh. Also when we did the interactive stories
- I would change the free voluntary reading since it is not very engaging.
- I would try to incorporate more options into the cultural homework, and write stories as a class.
- I enjoyed everything about Spanish class. I would spend less time on the movie talks though.
- The movie talks. Make them a little bit more interesting instead of a constant start stop.
- Less homework (I'm lazy and forgets things)
- Not spend so much time reviewing stories
- I feel like I can read and understand Spanish, I don't have enough practice speaking and writing.
- I would keep it the way it is.
- I would change Spanish class by studying the rules of what we are learning first before practicing them.
- Having more things graded other than the tests on movie talks.
- Telling us what they mean in English instead of making connections because sometimes I still do not know what it means
- I would keep it the same because I think it is a very good learning environment
- More signs on the wall
- Focus more on vocabulary and grammar to prepare for high school better.
- Play more different songs. You repeated a lot of the songs.
- Nothing. You are a GREAT teacher and I LOVE Spanish!!!!
- This isn't necessarily something I would change about Spanish class, but more of something I would add to it. I think if we did more writing in class, it would help with the fluency of our speaking. I know we wrote a few times over the course of the year, but that was only about 2 or 3 times. I think if we had a weekly writing prompt or one day of the week that we would write for part of the class, it would help us speak better in Spanish as well as practice correct grammar usage.
- Having more options to do things besides free voluntary reading and the coloring pages
- I wouldn't change anything. I found this class very helpful, fun, and an amazing environment.
- Maybe a more lively atmosphere. The room has sort of a sleepy atmosphere, I think that maybe adding some more bright popping colors and some Spanish decoration would help to make it more lively.
- Being able to sit next to whoever I wanted
- More food activities
- I would really not want to do Nearpod anymore.
- That you can choose when to take an assessment, so that you can take it when you are ready.
- My room arrangement! I want to experiment with flexible seating. I asked the students for suggestions about this too. - Students setting proficiency-related goals and keeping track of their own progress. - Tweak my Free Voluntary Reading program. - Share my principles of language teaching and learning from the beginning of the year. I feel that some of the misconceptions about writing and grammar could be dispelled. |