Réflexions sur le programme final avec les étudiants
This resource contains tips and suggested questions for you to incorporate into a reflection with students, when seeking out their feedback at the end of a residency or workshop.
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Offering sentence starters to support students in sharing their feedback: “My favorite part of the program was… because…”
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Incorporating opportunities that allow students to share with each other and to share back with the group in some way.
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To keep questions and prompts short and simple. Layer and build on questions gradually to reflect on and explore more complex ideas.
Why is Final Program Reflection Important?
Engaging students in final program reflections and the assessment process gives them a greater voice in programming. Student input can lead to deeper engagement for future programs.
In addition to the value of student input, having a moment at the end of a program to reflect helps cement the experience and mark the transition of its ending, especially if yours was a long residency.
Reflection also supports students with critical thinking and social emotional learning, by helping them identify their own growth and articulate what was beneficial to them.
Conseil d'enseignement et d'apprentissage à distance :
Use breakout rooms to have simultaneous sharing in smaller groups.
A google form can be an easy way to get feedback.
Try to make it anonymous and short.
Try to add questions with poll answers so students can pick A/B/C/D, rather than having to type out an answer to each question.
To give more space for student voice, include as the last question: “Is there anything else you’d like to share? Please do so here.”
What Could Your Reflection Look Like?
When planning for your reflection, keep in mind what has worked best for your class in past sessions. A combination of modalities is generally ideal. Depending on the length of the program, it may be helpful to remind students of what you’ve done together. Common ways to do this include asking students to name what they’ve worked on or looking at a slideshow of images from the class together (Ideas for Residency Documentation).
If your class likes to be in motion, consider activities where students could use movement to express their responses.
Exemples:
Create ratings with your students and post them on the walls. Then invite students to rate different elements of the program by moving around to the rating they would give each one.
Poll students and let them respond with a freeze frame gesture or dance move.
Have students discuss and create a tableau or short scene for their experience of the class.
If your class likes to work independently or in small groups, consider what activities could support this.
Exemples:
Post a prompt to kick-off a journaling reflection.
Rotate small groups through a series of reflection questions with a mechanism for a share-back (e.g., sticky notes, butcher paper).
Keep in mind that students may feel shy about giving feedback. Anonymous feedback and feedback shared between students may allow for more open discussion.
Keep reflection questions and prompts short and simple. Layer and scaffold to arrive at more complex takeaways.
How Can You Engage Students in Giving Feedback?
There are many ways to engage students in giving feedback about a program. The questions below could be read aloud as a part of your last class, given out as a handout, or spoken in ASL. Reflection can also take the form of an activity, such as repeating a favorite ritual or game from the program, journaling, drawing, or having small groups discuss the questions and then share out. If time allows, students could also plan and lead the reflection session. The suggestions below are for reflection at the end of a program, but these methods could be adjusted to use at any point in your residency. For additional strategies in guiding reflections go to: Stratégies de réflexion en cours en cours.
Example Wrap-up Questions for Participants
What was your favorite part of the program and why?
My favorite part of the program was _____, because _____.
I enjoyed _____ the most, because _____.
What did you learn about yourself while participating in the program?
In this program, I learned that I _____.
What was the most challenging activity we did together?
I found _____ the most challenging.
I had the hardest time when we were working on _____.
What can you do now that you were not able to do before?
Now I can _____.
If there was something you could change about an activity or the program as a whole, what would that be? (Review some of the activities if necessary.)
I would like to have spent more time in this program working on _____.
I would like to have spent less time working on _____.
Reflecting on Students’ Responses
Which reflection questions did students respond to most?
Were there any commonalities in the responses between students ?
What were some points of improvement, highlights and favorites expressed by students?
Conseil d'enseignement et d'apprentissage à distance :
Provide alternatives to open-ended writing prompts online.
Students can record a video of themselves responding to the reflection questions, either alone or in conversation with an adult.
Students can use emojis to respond to each question, or the survey can be set up with multiple choice answers using visuals to express ideas.
Try using a tool like a Word Cloud or Jamboard for students to submit reflections.