Hi, I have started to plan ResBaz 2018 in Perth and I had a bit of a discussion today as to how we best assign teachers to different streams, and we got to wonder how we'd best judge instructors in regards to whether they're better suited to teach complete beginners, or rough novices, or advanced learners etc. pp.
I feel like a) the student evaluation on the green/red stickers is rarely helpful in that regard as it's usually only one sentence, if the stickers are used at all - today I had a conversation with a supervisor who told me that one of her students attended one of the recent DC/SWC workshops here and was very unhappy with the speed of the workshop, but she didn't communicate that to us at all during the workshop b) it's hard to be evaluated in that regard from other instructors as they're usually 'advanced' in their own skills and cannot see anymore what's important for complete beginners c) it's practically impossible for me to self-evaluate whether I'm actually good at teaching beginners or whether I'm a better 'fit' to teach advanced students I would really love to know where my best 'fit' is in terms of teaching level, does anyone have a method of (self-)evaluation for this particular problem? Cheers Philipp Bayer _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
