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How My ESL Class Evaluated Me This Semester

As usual, during the semester finals, I had my students provide anonymous evaluations of classes and me. I always tell them (and always follow-through) that I will be posting the results — warts and all — on my blog and also share it directly with colleagues. I doing that enhances the odds of their taking it seriously. I tell them that I put a lot of time into helping them become better learners, and now it’s their turn to help me become a better teacher.
On Friday, I shared the results from my Theory of Knowledge class. Today, I’ll share the results from my ESL class. I was going to also publish results from my double-block ninth-grade English class, but I must have forgotten the surveys in the classroom. I’ll write about them later this week.
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Here’s a copy of the anonymous evaluation form I used for this ESL double-block class. It’s a combination of