Get and Use Feedback

• Increase your eye contact with students
• Ask questions during lecture
• Ask if they understand what you are saying
• Call on students to paraphrase or to summarize
• Begin your lecture with a series of questions
• Give students problems to solve during class time
• Give frequent assignments and quizzes
• Schedule an oral quiz with each student
• Schedule individual appointments with students
• Assign “minute papers” at the end of class
• Reserve the last 10 minutes of class for questions
• Use index cards and short questionnaires to get feedback
• Ask students to define, associate or apply concepts
• Use a question box to solicit comments or problems
• Periodically borrow students’ lecture notes
• Install a telephone “hotline”
• Attend or lead lab or discussion sections yourself
• Have students turn in their lecture notes
• Have students send you a telegram evaluation
• Videotape your class
• Respond visibly to student suggestions and criticisms