Today I started getting into consolidating my data. I ended up only getting survey responses from two schools, and visiting four. Now I'm trying to make sense of the data I have, which is extremely limited.
I'm also trying to get the website figured out. I've put some entries in already, but the formatting is really rough and unpolished. I guess its just good for it to have the information, but hopefully I can spiffy it up before I turn it in.
So on to some thoughts...
I was reading over the survey results for UHS and trying to get some meaning out of them.
When I went to UHS it looked very structured, academically intense, and grammar-focused.
What some of the students said did not agree. Two people mentioned how unstructured the class is, although the majority simply said they liked the energy of the teacher. There was also this sort of strange response on the question asking about relationship with teacher that just said "Sexual learning and tension". I'll be honest I have noo idea what to do with that so I'm just going to ignore it. A lot of students said that she was open and friendly and willing to work outside of class to help students. Several also said that her personality makes the material interesting.
On the question of teaching methods, the responses were all over the place. This is pretty much the range I got for that question (paraphrasing mostly):
"[plk;"
"sure"
'good balance between reading writing and grammar'
'good teacher, but doesn't understand/accommodate the particular needs of our class'
'great/good'
'i like the readings for becoming more cultured'
'its fun, i like that the class is discussion-based'
'boring'
'need more grammar'
'need more grammar and reading/analyzing stories'
I'm not sure what to do with this information. There's also the issue of self-reporting and bias.
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