1.3.c.i - Student feedback: Whole school
Introduction | Whole school | Classroom
The evaluation of teaching at HKTA Yuen Yuen Institute No. 3 Secondary School
In HKTA Yuen Yuen Institute No. 3 Secondary School the evaluation of teaching is conducted at whole school level through an effectiveness questionnaire which students fill in a few months after the beginning of school.
Watch these excerpts from students, teachers and the principal talking about their approach. You may find it helpful to complete a SWOT analysis in relation to implementing such an approach in your own school.
Students assessing teachersStudents assessing teachers (QuickTime)
Sung Yik Yi, Student, HKTA Yuen Yuen Institute No. 3 Secondary School
"That is the teaching effectiveness questionnaire..."
Students feedback to inform teachingStudents feedback to inform teaching (QuickTime)
Ms Chan Ying, Brenda, Teacher, HKTA Yuen Yuen Institute No. 3 Secondary School
"About the questionnaires completed by students, we do not collect them at the end of the year..."
Teachers open to students' viewsTeachers open to students' views (QuickTime)
Ms Chan Ying, Brenda, Teacher, HKTA Yuen Yuen Institute No. 3 Secondary School
"I think such pressure is inevitable, because we need to know what students need, and we have to know their needs more thoroughly through their views expressed..."
Using questionnaires in SSEUsing questionnaires in SSE (QuickTime)
Mr Lee Sai Kee, Principal, HKTA Yuen Yuen Institute No. 3 Secondary School
"Students take part in the SSE mainly by completing the questionnaire to give their views about the school and the teachers' teaching..."
Similar approaches in other schools
You may like to compare this to similar approaches in other schools
Students' views of school/teachersStudents' views of school/teachers (QuickTime)
Priscilla Au-young, Student, Marymount Secondary School
" At the end of each school term, we would fill in a questionnaire about classroom teaching..."
SSE for learning and teachingSSE for learning and teaching (QuickTime)
Ms Chan Wan Yue, Vivian, Teacher, St Francis' Canossian College
"I have been teaching in this school for 6 years..."
The principal's post box
A further example of a whole school approach is a post box in which students may send anonymised letters to the principals
Students' feedback to schoolStudents' feedback to school (QuickTime)
Wan Chi Kin, Student, Shatin Public School
"In the subject of Independent Life Skills, at the end of the term, besides our grades, there's a form to write down what we think should be added or improved about the subject..."
The communication culture of the schoolThe communication culture of the school (QuickTime)
Sung Yik Yi, Student, HKTA Yuen Yuen Institute No. 3 Secondary School
"Our school has a good culture of communication, including teaching effectiveness questionnaire, teacher-student forum, teacher and student heart-to-heart scheme, principal's mail-box, intranet, chat rooms, etc..."
Principal's mail boxPrincipal's mail box (QuickTime)
Sung Yik Yi, Student, HKTA Yuen Yuen Institute No. 3 Secondary School
"Students seldom write letters to the principal in their own names..."
Toolbox: SWOT analysis
In thinking about where you are as a school in relation to change, it may be useful to conduct a SWOT analysis. This may be done by the senior management team, by groups of staff or by the whole staff as part of a development planning sequence. The SWOT analysis is used to identify what people see as:
- strengths
- weaknesses
- opportunities
- threats
Thinking about and discussing these issues is a first step in planning how to move forward.
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STRENGTHS
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WEAKNESSES |
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OPPORTUNITIES
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THREATS |