The survey that was provided in this writing assignment was entitled “The Irving Student Evaluation of Accomplished Teaching scale (Hattie, 2012). This survey was given to my 11th graders from my chemistry class. This survey was broken down into four main categories such as This Teacher…, Pedagogy in this subject, Student engagement with the curriculum, and the relationship between subject and the real world. The result was very eye-opening and interesting. There were only seven students out of twelve students that took the survey seriously and marked honestly what they thought of the class. The other five just randomly marked something without reading the questions. This is typical of this class. I analyzed the surveys as is and found several areas that we, both the teacher and student, agreed on and others where we did not. In some cases, there was a huge gap. …show more content…
In the first category of This teacher, we agreed on adjusting the lesson if we have trouble, enables us to develop confidence and self-esteem in the subject, and creates a positive atmosphere in which we feel part of a team (Hattie, 2012). In part II, we agree on encourages us to try different techniques to solve problems and helps us to construct language and processes of this subject (Hattie, 2012). The third part we agreed on challenges students to think through and solve the problem either by themselves or together as a group, makes the subject come alive in the classroom, and show us interesting and useful ways of solving problems (Hattie, 2012). And in the last category we agreed on helps us to understand how this subject relates to the real world, helps us to make a link between the different topics and other aspects of our lives, and help us realize that this subject is continuously evolving. As one can see there are many areas that we agree upon from this