Another Strategy

Ever heard of PMI? It's a great little strategy that can be used to evaluate how something has gone in your class. The letters stand for: Plus, Minus, Interesting. Towards the end of a lesson, you can ask students to identify a "plus" (something positive about the lesson), a "minus" (something negative), " interesting" (something that they found interesting). I was on the receiving end of this little evaluation exercise recently. We were asked to do it in the groups we were in for the day. Then we were invited to offer up one item from each of the three sets of responses from our groups.

One interesting variation: Recently, I experienced this little strategy, but with a difference. The facilitator changed it to PMIC, the last letter standing for "Change". We were asked to share in our groups what we would like to change about the situation we had been considering. It could also apply to the process that is being used.