■ 改善への取り組み
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前年度の点検・評価項目
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●１．授業の方針や授業計画と実際の授業の内容及び授業目標の達成度
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I was able to follow the scope and sequence as had been stated in my syllabi for all my courses last year, with minor adjustments made due to actual class sizes and language proficiency levels of the students. (The possibilities for such adjustments had also been stated in the syllabi.) The grading criteria on the syllabi were repeatedly communicated to students over the duration of the courses and were followed faithfully.
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●２．（１）教育内容・方法の工夫
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As stated last year (for my reflections on AY2022), I have been working on encouraging my students to:
1. Make it a habit to view and reflect on their own work together with my comments (posted on sites like "Padlet" and "Google Classroom" carefully) in order to discover their strengths for further enhancement, plus points for improvement;
2. Appreciate--and learn in their spare time from--the work done by their classmates instead of just their own on such shared sites.
In order to give my students tangible incentives to perform the above regularly, I allotted from AY2023 a portion of the participation mark for all my students for thoughtfully doing the above, and communicated that to my students. Student reception to this change has been good, as evidenced by the significant increase in assignment re-submissions as well as thoughtful (or encouraging) comments to their classmates' work.
My rationale for this change is that, even if some students cannot do well on their assignments or projects in their first submission, they have additional chances to earn marks for their efforts in learning from past errors or from other students' examples.
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●４．学生による本学の授業評価アンケートの実施、分析、結果の活用状況
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Although still rather small in number (even after repeated reminders to complete the course evaluations by students in AY2023), the responses received were largely positive, especially in terms of student satisfaction, level of understanding, and degree of enjoyment in the course activities. One case, however, stood out, when one student (a very capable 4th year student as I was able to figure out ) commented that my request for students to remove their masks while giving their presentations online was a harsh and cruel one for her. She also said that, while I did not name her when making this request, she felt as though I was pinpointing her to the class. Thankfully, on graduation day, this student attended confidently (and with a lot of smiles on her unmasked face). However, this student's previous comments helped me learn not to make some of my requests sound as though they were absolutely required and to ensure even further that no one feels as though their weaknesses or preferences are exposed to the whole class.
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●５．公開授業の実施状況
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I opened my "Taiken Jissen" final class for observation in Term 3 of AY 2023; however, unfortunately, I received no visitors.
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●７．学生からの勉学（単位僅少学生への対応など）、生活、進路・就職などの相談への対応
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I am continuing to reach out to students (who show signs of potential difficulties) informally and positively, but persistently. The one thing that I endeavor to avoid is to make them feel as though I have given up on their success. Usually (though not 100%), these students eventually do respond and tell me what is causing their difficulties. As long as they do so at any given point, I make it a point to hear their situation and sit down with them to create a plan for catching up. I must say, however, that this process is increasingly a tougher challenge each year.
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