Learning Partners
While teaching in England one of the activities in place by the academy is learning partners. Here the teacher chooses two students to give feedback to the teacher. I chose two year 9 students who have done a great job in telling me what starter activities work well for their lesson and what did not.
These sessions have been great for me as teacher since they allowed both teacher and student to talk to one another and discuss what types of activities work well. For instance, one of my learning partners Nick, was aware of my use of videos in the classroom and suggested, in order to increase learning I should provide questions for students to answer when they are done watching the video. Since then, that is something I have incorporated in my teaching.
These sessions have been great for me as teacher since they allowed both teacher and student to talk to one another and discuss what types of activities work well. For instance, one of my learning partners Nick, was aware of my use of videos in the classroom and suggested, in order to increase learning I should provide questions for students to answer when they are done watching the video. Since then, that is something I have incorporated in my teaching.