Evaluating teachers’ own teaching is a way to identify the strong aspects of their practice, as well as their areas of improvement. It is important to understand that evaluating our teaching does not mean we are a bad teacher, in fact, it means quite the opposite.
A good teacher teaches and learns
You could be the best teacher with the best lesson resources, lesson activities, etc. But as time changes, we need to be flexible and adaptable.
Ways to evaluate teaching practices
- Self-monitoring: Teachers monitor their own performance as they teach. After the lesson, teachers should think on whether they have met the learning outcomes and objectives, and evaluate the good and the to-be-improved aspects of the lesson. Self-monitoring is a meaningful source of information for evaluating teaching.
- Audio and video recording: Teachers can audio- or video-tape the lessons, which will allow them to investigate their actual teaching performance in detail. Audio and video recording provide teachers with objective information that reflects what was actually happening in the class. It is always easy for people to observe others and notice their weaknesses, but it is rather difficult for them to monitor themselves, especially during teaching when teachers are devoting most of their attention in instructing and explaining to students.
- Learners' feedback on teaching: Students feedback is very useful to evaluate own teaching practice. After all, the goal of education is to make students learn and understand. Therefore, what students perceive and experience in class would directly determine how effective they are learning.
- Questionnaires: It can be used to collect feedback from students simultaneously, which will provide a comprehensive picture that reflect the opinions of the whole class.
- Peer-observation: Teachers can have peer observation, to observe and get feedback of their teaching. This would also give opportunity to teachers to share their ideas and best teaching practices.
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