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Humanising Language Teaching
Year 5; Issue 3; May 03
Mid-course Feedback
Marshall. Morgan and Rinvolucri
Time: 15- 20 minutes
Purpose: to get the students to tell you what is going right in the course and what they want you to change.
Preparation: Photocopy this feedback grid so each student can be given one:
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CARRY ON DOING --- DO MORE OF --- DO LESS OF
I want to…
You , the
teacher, could….
We, the students,
could…….
X* in our group
could usefully…..
* X should not be named.
Lesson outline:
- Give out the feedback grid and ask each person to take 5-10 minutes filling it in. Explain that you are going to change the way you teach the class according to their feedback. This is “executive” feedback. Make clear that everybody will see all the feedback.
- Get them to post their girds round the walls and ask them to go round reading each others.
- Collect the grids off the walls and implement the majority wishes over subsequent classes. There may be a need for a plenary discussion.
Acknowledgement
We learnt this technique from Sheelagh Deller, author of Lessons for the Learner, Pilgrims-Longman 1990 and of Using the Mother Tongue, Delta, 2002
