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All my students write a letter at the end of each term, it is a good activity since they evaluate their work and also give me feedback on how the course is developing and help me evaluate myself too. They are usually very honest! Another one of the activities I use to evaluate their progress is number 3, we make quizzes to review on grammar structures, also number 5, I use videos. Students record themselves and their friends and then we watch the videos together (usually guided activities). Finally, number 6, what one kid does to remember and learn things that have been taught in class might be useful for other classmates. Sharing how students develop is always a wonderful idea. Next year I am definitely going to ask students to start a diary.
What to recommend? Kahoot, of course! To practice the grammar in a funny way. Kids Love it, even the older ones. Also tutorials from Teacher tube and then exercises to practice what they have learnt.
I have never done end-of-course questionnaires, students write feedback letters every term. However, I found a questionnaire online I am going to use next week with my 4ESO students. I have adapted some of the questions. Here it is
1. Did you get on well with your classmates when working or do you think you could have done it better on your own? Did you do it on your own? Is team work useful when learning a Language?
2. How do you plan to continue learning after the course? Any summer activity?
3. Were you given correct information about the course? Look at the syllabus
4. Did you improve your speaking skills? Or is it too difficult in a class of 30 students? What would you do to change that?
5. Were the topics you studied interesting? Student’s book and workbook, news, Facebook newsfeed...Mention the ones you found more interesting or less boring! Why are they so?
6. Was the teacher organized or did she worry about current news and your mood more? Does having a class at 12.30 influence your attention? How would you change that?
7. Did you increase your vocabulary? How do you do it?
8. What would you like more of in your next course? That is, 1st Batxillerat...
9. Was there sufficient grammar work? Would you add more? How?
10. Did the teacher give you sufficient attention? Did you give sufficient attention to your teacher?
For students to do extra practice outside the class, activities like watching movies or series or ‘serious YouTube videos’ (most of them are not) are really important. Student feedback (what they can recommend), Self-evaluation and Tutorials are essential for their learning too.

Ana Ma Buñuel wrote:
> All my students write a letter at the end of each term, it is a good
> activity since they evaluate their work and also give me feedback on how
> the course is developing and help me evaluate myself too. They are usually
> very honest! Another one of the activities I use to evaluate their progress
> is number 3, we make quizzes to review on grammar structures, also number
> 5, I use videos. Students record themselves and their friends and then we
> watch the videos together (usually guided activities). Finally, number 6,
> what one kid does to remember and learn things that have been taught in
> class might be useful for other classmates. Sharing how students develop is
> always a wonderful idea. Next year I am definitely going to ask students to
> start a diary.
> What to recommend? Kahoot, of course! To practice the grammar in a funny
> way. Kids Love it, even the older ones. Also tutorials from Teacher tube
> and then exercises to practice what they have learnt.
> I have never done end-of-course questionnaires, students write feedback
> letters every term. However, I am going to
> use next the questionnaire in activity 3 of this unit next week with my 4ESO students. I have adapted some of the questions.
>
> 1. Did you get on well with your classmates when working or do you think
> you could have done it better on your own? Did you do it on your own? Is
> team work useful when learning a Language?
> 2. How do you plan to continue learning after the course? Any summer
> activity?
> 3. Were you given correct information about the course? Look at the
> syllabus
> 4. Did you improve your speaking skills? Or is it too difficult in a class
> of 30 students? What would you do to change that?
> 5. Were the topics you studied interesting? Student’s book and workbook,
> news, Facebook newsfeed...Mention the ones you found more interesting or
> less boring! Why are they so?
> 6. Was the teacher organized or did she worry about current news and your
> mood more? Does having a class at 12.30 influence your attention? How
> would you change that?
> 7. Did you increase your vocabulary? How do you do it?
> 8. What would you like more of in your next course? That is, 1st
> Batxillerat...
> 9. Was there sufficient grammar work? Would you add more? How?
> 10. Did the teacher give you sufficient attention? Did you give sufficient
> attention to your teacher?
> For students to do extra practice outside the class, activities like
> watching movies or series or ‘serious YouTube videos’ (most of them are
> not) are really important. Student feedback (what they can recommend),
> Self-evaluation and Tutorials are essential for their learning too.

I wanted to delete my first post once submitted and I didn't know how to do it. The correct one is the second one I posted. I said I am going to use activity 3 as an end-of-course questionnaire, in the first post I wrote I had found it online....Sooooorry, well, I found it online, it is just that you were the ones suggesting it!

Look again at the activities for evaluating students' progress from exercise 1. Have you ever used these activities? Did you find the activity useful? If you haven't used these activities, would you like to? Why / why not?
1 Vocabulary. I often do different vocabulary tasks to evaluate students progress, like guess the word from the meaning, or some group game, when students have to explain hidden word to one student, just describing it, without naming, it helps students to learn the vocabulary in an interesting way.
2The students' assessment of their progress. I don't use this stratagy because of the lack of the time, my students usually know about the progress from the tests, but I find it really usefull for students and teacher to analize the activities and choose the most convenient way for learning.
3. Grammar. I revise grammar with students in different ways like doing some extra worksheets or some matching games, fill in the word games, but I find makeinf quizzes with students very interesting idea and will definitely use it with my students in future.
4.The students' enjoyment of the classes is a good way to get feedback from students. It is worth doing in class, I will try it too.
5 Speaking skills. My students often make some reports and we discuss them , but I have never recorded them, and I think , may be I should do it, thoygh many students don't like watching themselves and discussing, they find it a bit emberrasing, so we'll see.



End-of-course questionnaires. Can you suggest other questions that you would include in an end-of-course questionnaire? Is there any other method that isn't mentioned here that you use to collect feedback from your students?
What did you find the most challanging? Why?
What was the most interesting, entertaining, and demotivating activity for you?
What would you like to change in the course? Add?
What did you like best of all about your teacher>? What you didn't like?