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Product reviews for Independent Thinking on MFL
Janja ZupanÄiÄ, Head Teacher, Louis Adamic Primary School Grosuplje, Slovenia, and expert in education and leadership
In Independent Thinking on MFL Crista Hazell addresses a large collection of topics that teachers need to be aware of when teaching in order to meet learners' needs and develop effective teaching practice.
She stresses the power of student voice as an important element of raising learners' motivation and engagement. I have already implemented one of the techniques, exit tickets, into my own practice and it has proven to be extremely useful.
As a head teacher I often observe lessons. After each observation I run an evaluation discussion with the teacher. However, to gain a more balanced picture I often lacked student feedback, so I tried to exchange a few words with some of them after the lesson. Usually, and not surprisingly, the most loquacious and academically successful learners shared their feedback, whereas those whose feedback was most needed silently slipped through the door.
Using the exit tickets technique, I managed to introduce a coherent structure to collecting feedback from every student in the classroom. As Crista Hazell points out, it is important to prepare students in advance, so in the beginning of a lesson students are introduced with the goal, purpose and timing. They are encouraged to share their sincere thoughts, opinions and experience.
The technique stimulates students to raise their learning awareness, and empowers them to verbalise their learning experience and provide suggestions to the teacher. When their comments are considered seriously, ownership of learning is strongly supported. Moreover, exit tickets reveal the meta language students have already acquired.
Last but not least, the technique can easily be implemented in distance learning, too. Students can give their feedback via email or some other interactive form, and the teacher can then discuss the feedback either with the whole class, in small groups or individually using web conferencing systems such as Zoom and Teams. Exit tickets is one of many genuinely simple and at the same time useful techniques and strategies presented in Crista's book, which I can recommend as being highly useful in supporting quality teaching and learning.
The book should not be in school libraries, but on teachers' desks.
She stresses the power of student voice as an important element of raising learners' motivation and engagement. I have already implemented one of the techniques, exit tickets, into my own practice and it has proven to be extremely useful.
As a head teacher I often observe lessons. After each observation I run an evaluation discussion with the teacher. However, to gain a more balanced picture I often lacked student feedback, so I tried to exchange a few words with some of them after the lesson. Usually, and not surprisingly, the most loquacious and academically successful learners shared their feedback, whereas those whose feedback was most needed silently slipped through the door.
Using the exit tickets technique, I managed to introduce a coherent structure to collecting feedback from every student in the classroom. As Crista Hazell points out, it is important to prepare students in advance, so in the beginning of a lesson students are introduced with the goal, purpose and timing. They are encouraged to share their sincere thoughts, opinions and experience.
The technique stimulates students to raise their learning awareness, and empowers them to verbalise their learning experience and provide suggestions to the teacher. When their comments are considered seriously, ownership of learning is strongly supported. Moreover, exit tickets reveal the meta language students have already acquired.
Last but not least, the technique can easily be implemented in distance learning, too. Students can give their feedback via email or some other interactive form, and the teacher can then discuss the feedback either with the whole class, in small groups or individually using web conferencing systems such as Zoom and Teams. Exit tickets is one of many genuinely simple and at the same time useful techniques and strategies presented in Crista's book, which I can recommend as being highly useful in supporting quality teaching and learning.
The book should not be in school libraries, but on teachers' desks.
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15/06/2021 01:00
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