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Using Student Feedback to Enhance Teaching
A Resource Guide for New Faculty
This guide is designed for faculty who are content experts developing their teaching practice. Resources are organized around three high-impact areas: building community and belonging, helping students understand why content matters, and closing class effectively. Each resource has been selected for its practicality and research grounding.
How to use this guide
- Quick wins (name tents, housekeeping slide, muddiest point, bridge statement) can be implemented in the next class session.
- Early semester moves (syllabus quiz, Brightspace announcements, WIFM hooks) are best set up before or at the start of a term.
- Deeper investments (recommended books, TILT framework, relevance maps) reward a weekend of reading and modest course redesign.
- Two books worth reading first: Small Teaching by James Lang and Why Don’t Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham. Both are accessible and evidence-based.
Section 9: Using Student Feedback to Enhance Teaching
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Exit TicketsExit tickets can be used to assess student learning, but they can also help you to improve. Try using an exit ticket at the end of the semester to get feedback on what students liked, disliked, struggled with, etc. |
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Mid-Semester Evaluation
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Using Student Evaluation Data Effectively |
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Areas for Growth |
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Relying on StrengthsEach of us brings our own unique strengths to the classroom and areas for growth. While it is important to work on areas of weakness to be the best educator we can be, relying on our strengths creates an authentic environment.
Don’t discount the areas that you are successful in, whether your strengths are relationships, content, communication, leadership, or any of the many other personal strengths, use them to strengthen your classroom.
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