by Brittany Taormina | Mar 12, 2021 | Classroom Culture, Risk, Teacher Improvement, Vulnerability |
The following is a guest post from Brittany Taormina, who gave the Teacher Report Card to her students during 2021 distance learning. She tweeted me about it, and her grand risk deserves some celebration. Check it out below! 8:10am the morning bell rings, students...
by Matt Vaudrey | May 23, 2019 | Adolescence, Classroom Culture, Hope |
Yesterday was Pickle’s last day of school as a kindergartener. The night before, I was folding laundry after the kids were asleep, and I heard her burst into tears. I found her sitting up in her big-kid bed weeping. Me: Pickle, what’s wrong?Pickle: *sniff* I...
by Matt Vaudrey | Jun 8, 2018 | Vulnerability |
It’s June. The end of the school year is a great time to take a risk and try something new. On Twitter, several teachers have committed to letting their students grade them (more on that later), and Jesse agreed to write about his experience and let me share it...
by Matt Vaudrey | Oct 7, 2016 | Classroom Management, Education, Teacher Improvement |
Dear Claire, You and I haven’t ever talked about the use of the Teacher Report Card as a way to get feedback from students, but lemme tell ya; it’s one of my favorite things I do. Every students’ face lit up when I mentioned—before giving them the...
by Matt Vaudrey | Jun 8, 2013 | Teaching |
This year (as every year), my students completed a Teacher Report Card and graded me. As I promised, here are the data from my students. 70 middle school students gave me honest, anonymous feedback, and here it is. Looking at numbers only, here are my four highest:...