should students evaluate teachers?

Answer 1

Not in elementary, middle or high school. This is used in college so Prof. can improve their teaching techniques.

Answer 2

No, of course not. In college they humor evaluations, but bad evaluations mean nothing because too often students become much more emotionally connected to the outcome of the class than the teacher, and an emotional connection destroys an objective evalutation- and if the evaluation is not going to be objective, why even have it. Teachers are evaluated though, hopefully by administrators who have special training in objective evaluations, but likewise, teachers don't evaluate administrators- and for the same reasons- their evaluations will be too emotionally connected to whether they were repremanded or given a raise- and not based on the true performance of the administrator.

I've had many good and bad teachers, but the only thing that I can do when I've had someone who just wasted my time was to try to figure out what makes a teacher good and what makes one bad. No body sets out to be a bad teacher, they all want to be good, it's just that some never get what's really happening in the minds of their students- sadly if they haven't figured it out by then, a bad evaluation will not open their eyes.

Answer 3

Absolutely. After all, the teachers work FOR the students. Every other job I know of has evaluations, why should teaching be any different. The university where I did my undergraduate work had teacher evaluations and the results were often surprising. There was one teacher in particular who had become burned out and was very unreceptive/unresponsive to students. This was made known on the evaluation sheets by the students and her position at the university was changed because of it.

Answer 4

It depends the age of the students. Elementary and middle school children will not have the maturity to do so. In high school and college the teachers should be evaluated but just because a few students say the teacher is bad doesn't mean they are. Its when a teacher has a large portion of students that have negative comments. Also if the evaluations only say the teacher is boring then that is no reason the teacher is not good at what they are doing. How can you make math interesting????

Answer 5

Yes! At universities students have the opportunity to provide feedback to their instructors about what they found helpful in the class and what they didn't like. Having been on both sides of teacher/student set up, I know I appreciate it when my students tell me that they liked a particular textbook or that they liked a guest speaker I brought in or that they thought my exams were too hard. It doesn't mean that I'm going to change everything to please my students, but it's useful to know what students are getting out of a course. There were plenty of teachers in high school that I had who should have been evaluated by the students. Maybe elementary and middle school is too early for students to be mature about it, but at the high school level I think students should have the opportunity to critique their teachers and the school board should take these critiques into consideration. While test scores are one way to evaluate a teacher's performance, student feedback also can provide valuable input.

Answer 6

All grades should be able to evaluate the teacher that way the teachers would have to treat the students like people and not a nuisance on the way to a check.

Answer 7

Absolutely... My first year teaching, I found a teacher evaluation checklist that I let my fourth-6th grade students (learning disabled) students use to evaluate me. I was afraid I wouldn't get any information out of them but it would be interesting to see. It was great!! I learned from them what type of activities they liked best, which ones they hated, I learned that they prefered overheads to chalkboards and especially liked the blue marker because they could see it better. I also learned that they were very aware of how I dressed, I even got suggestions on what outfit they liked me in the best. (and don't think ugly thoughts, they liked it better when i didn't wear dark colors) One student said they didn't like my perfume, she said it tickled her nose and distracted her. (I didn't wear it again) I had a few students who said they thought I played favorites and I watched how I treated students as opposed to other students and I think they may have been correct. (who knew???) I think their insight helped me to become even better my second year... and my middle school students love it, that they can give me a grade.

You never know how other people really see you unless you ask. My surveys are totally confidential and I encourage my students to be honest with me. THey know they don't get a grade for sucking up. BUT... if you don't want to know.. then don't ask. These kids can be painfully honest.

Answer 8

Yes! Absolutely. No doubt about it. EVERY one that provides a service of some kind to another person should be evaluated. Teachers more so. Seriously, how many times does the principle or dean or whomever come into the classroom? How times do the students? Enough said.

Answer 9

Their grades and test score ARE informative - but honest evaluations would give teachers insight into their teaching style and how the students relate to them.

I think it's a good idea.

Answer 10

Yes, of course. If there is something going on with a teacher the administrators need to know about it. Believe me, if there is one disgruntled student, there most likely won't be any action taken but if half the class has the same complaint then maybe something will be done.

Answer 11

those are 2 distinctive strategies and could be in distinctive sentences. First you ask no count if comments must be all in favour of suggestions from scholars. contained in the latter component to the sentence you advise the concept that the comments ought to incredibly be used for instructors overall performance. If that may no longer what you meant then you definately ought to delete something of the question after "demote them." right here is an option: ought to colleges ask scholars to evaluate instructors for purposes of merchandising or demotion? And if so, ought to colleges use the student's comments?