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Various advice. Prepare an evaluation form at the end of the class to have a better assessment of your class from the students. Write the questions such that y
by yodsanklai 8y ago
Various advice.
Prepare an evaluation form at the end of the class to have a better assessment of your class from the students. Write the questions such that you can get constructive feedback from them.
Try to balance the boring stuff you can avoid with more engaging material. Break the pace with questions or exercises.
If you can, do a lot of labs to "gamify" your class. Programming/hacking can be fun and addictive so it's a great opportunity to make students happy and learning something at the same time. However, it takes time to write good labs.
I noticed that no matter the content, students are satisfied if the difficulty is adequate.
- geophile 8y agoThe university solicited feedback, and the questions and answers were quite detailed. That was the basis for my question posted here.
- michaelmior 8y agoOne suggestion is to also do your own survey somewhere in the middle of the course. Each group of students is going to be somewhat different and getting feedback early so you can adapt to that particular group is invaluable. Importantly, if you do this, the survey should be incredibly short. One suggestion I got from my father which I tried the last time I was teaching was basically these three questions: 1) What should I keep doing? 2) What should I stop doing? 3) What should I start doing? The goal here is not detailed feedback, but a high response rate that will give you enough data to course correct.