Lauren Bosworth McFadden, EdD, associate professor in the College of Education at Seton Hall University comments, Each semester, I receive student evaluations
from the courses I have taught the previous semester.
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Similar to most
professors, I’m sure, I open the document with excitement and a bit of
nervousness. I want to see what resonated and what I need to improve
upon for the semester. This year, instead of teaching in-person, I
taught all of my courses from home. Now don’t get me wrong, I love
technology and teaching from home had some benefits, mainly avoiding an
hour commute each way to school; however, it was also a disorienting
experience. I had to reimagine all of my lessons for the online
environment and find a way to engage students in the content for 2.5
hours. As I waited for my evaluations to load, I wondered if I had done
enough to forge connections with and among my students. The depth of
those connections through the organic, in-person experience, along with
informal meetings around campus, seemed difficult to imagine in this
screen-to-screen world.
Reading through my most recent course evaluations, students zeroed in
on what was most important to them, beyond the content of the course
itself. Five themes emerged as I read the qualitative comments.
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Source: Faculty Focus
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