Constructive feedback is a crucial component of a successful student teaching experience. The following questions may be used while reflecting on a lesson and provide a basis for discussion with your cooperating teacher during the feedback conference. Your cooperating teacher has a companion list of questions to use when analyzing your teaching performance.
- Was my level of enthusiasm/involvement high or low? Explain why.
- Did I challenge the students? How?
- Was my lesson appropriately adapted for all learners?
- Was my lesson developmentally appropriate? If not, what was inappropriate? What would I do to change it?
- How did my lesson address auditory, tactile and visual learning styles?
- How did the students demonstrate understanding of the materials presented?
- Were concepts presented too abstractly? Too concretely? How would I change my presentation?
- What were some of the ways that the students demonstrated that they were actively engaged in the learning process?
- How did the students perform in relation to the stated learning objectives?
- Did I set clear expectations so that students knew what was expected of them? If not, how can I make them clearer?
- What content areas did I integrate within the lesson? Was this integration appropriate and successful?
- Did I find it necessary to make adjustments while teaching the lesson? If so, what adjustments, and were these adjustments effective?
- What worked with classroom behavior management? What didn’t work? How would I change what didn’t work?
- How did I integrate and use technology effectively in instruction and assessment, if appropriate?
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