We’d like to hear your impressions of this lesson and any major logistical or other issues you ran into.
These evaluations should be filled out each time a lesson is taught so that we can compare the lesson’s effectiveness in different environments or with slight modifications.

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date “When was the lesson taught? (click for a calendar)” @

textbox “Who are you?”

textarea “Who taught the lesson?”

textarea “What context was the lesson taught in?” ”=e.g. “school in Ghana, class of 30 11-14 year olds, as part of an established PEN club using the curriculum” or “conference in Peru, mostly adults (non-engineers), one-off lesson””

fieldset “General stuff”

textarea “Tell us about the lesson! What happened? Do you have any funny stories?”

textarea “What aspect of the lesson do you think worked best?”

textarea “What worked the least?”

textarea “As far as you know, when you taught the lesson, had it been changed/updated since the last time it was taught? Did you make any changes (e.g. too many people, so did design work in groups instead of pairs) for your particular class, and if so what were they?”

textarea “Do you think that there is anything in the lesson, as it is written now, that should be changed before it is taught again?”

textarea “What advice do you have for the next person to teach this lesson?”

fieldset “Content”

textarea “Were there any aspects of the material the students struggled with? If so, tell us why you think this was the case. (e.g. were demos ineffective? Did the students lack the background knowledge required for the lesson? Was there a language barrier?)” !

textarea “Tell us how you overcame this lack of understanding, either by how you helped the students understand the concepts or how you worked the lesson around it:” !

textarea “At the end of the lesson, were the students able to recall many of the basic concepts taught in the lesson?” !

textarea “Do you think the students were excited/interested in the lesson content?” !

textarea “Were students comfortable with design work? Were they confident in putting forward their own designs and ideas?” !

textarea “Were students comfortable with practical work, such as experiments or building work? Were they able to work independently after being given a demonstration, or did they need teacher/assistant help?” !

textarea “How well did the students work in groups/pairs together? Did every student have a chance to contribute to the work?” !

fieldset “Logistics”

textarea “Do you think the right amount of time was given to each of the activities?” !

textarea “Do you think the right amount of materials and equipment was available? (specify both not enough and too much!)” !

textarea “Do you think there were enough/too many teachers and teaching assistants?” !

textarea “If group work was involved, do you think the groups were of the right size?” !

fieldset “Curriculum” static “Only answer these questions if the lesson was being taught as part of a wider PEN curriculum, either a full PEN club curriculum or a shorter series of lessons.”

textarea “At the beginning of the lesson, how well were students able to recall principles taught in previous lessons?” !

textarea “If applicable, do you think students are more comfortable with design work now than they were at the beginning of the curriculum?” !

textarea “Do you think students have been getting better at working in teams/pairs over the course of the curriculum?” !

textarea “Have students been getting more comfortable working with tools or building things?” !

fieldset “Lesson-specific and other questions”

textarea “Anything else you’d like to say?” !

submit “Submit evaluation”

thanks “Thanks for submitting an evaluation! A page has been created. It could probably use some cleaning up, if you feel so inclined.” </form>