Students and Teachers

@vonne28th (1494)
Philippines
May 29, 2007 3:31am CST
schools should ask students to evaluate their teachers. Do you agree or disagree?
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11 responses
• Brazil
30 May 07
I do not agree because the relations inside of a classroom many times if summarize in the folloing onde: the teaches, the pupil learns, and the teacher evaluates the sucess of this taken over on a contract basic. These three activities - to teach, to learn and to evaluate - even though compete for the attention of the pupils and of the proper teacher, that not rare gives extreme attention to the evaluation process, deviating the focus of the pupils of the question most important: the learning. In the truth, the organozation would have contributes for this, giving to the teacher the power to teach and to evaluate, without howevwer being evaluated.
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@vonne28th (1494)
• Philippines
30 May 07
Evaluation of teachers will give a room for improvement on what is lacking in teacher-student interactions. It is improvement also that teachers should know what are the demands of the students and their expectation from the teacher. Learning is a collective activity and therefore;students and teachers should go hand in hand to reach whatever goal is set. You really have a broad thoughts about this.
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@my_lady (106)
• Philippines
29 May 07
I agree with this, that they ask the students to evaluate their teachers so that teachers give all the best they can to teach the student because some teachers let their student to copy (always copy on the board) without explaining it. I think that by evaluation makes the teacher more diligent.
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@vonne28th (1494)
• Philippines
30 May 07
You are right so that the teacher will know about their capacities. And do better for the next time.
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@skbadhan (879)
• India
30 May 07
I am agree to you. there should be proper evaluation of teachers too in this standard of studies will definately improve. here at my place the condition of education in government school is very poor specialy in primary classes which is also considered as foundation for child future. there is no check over the teachers wether they are teaching or not. they are more concern with there montly salary which they are going to get 1st of every month.
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@vonne28th (1494)
• Philippines
31 May 07
That is right. Some of the teachers here in our place are also like that much concern of their salary than what their students learn from them.
@renyissac (182)
• India
29 May 07
Yes i do agree.In all semesters there is a feedback for evavuating the performance of teachers,which is a practice in our school...
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@vonne28th (1494)
• Philippines
30 May 07
It should be practice really..i also agree with you.
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@tala91285 (1074)
• Philippines
29 May 07
We do that in our college. When the semester's about to end, people from HR bring in evaluation forms to assess our teachers.
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@vonne28th (1494)
• Philippines
30 May 07
It is not only the teachers who have the right to assess the capability of a students. It is also right the students evaluate their teachers. Through evaluation,the principal or supervisor may know the performance of his/her co-teachers as to their attendance,manner of teaching,manner of giving grades,and their attitudes towards their students.
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@tala91285 (1074)
• Philippines
30 May 07
That's what we do in our college. We assess the teachers according to how they handle the subject, if they're fair (with assignments, tests and deadlines), if the classroom is conducive to learning and if the teacher is capable of teaching. It's important for the higher-ups to learn about a teacher's performance inside the classroom. Teacher-to-teacher evaluation is not enough to really evalute a certain teacher.
@JanMags (724)
• Philippines
29 May 07
I worked in the human resources section of one school once. We do ask students to eveluate teachers. I agree with this to some extent because students really know best what's going on the classrooms that escape the administrators. The disadvantage with an evaluation system with students is that some students are just not objective enough and may be giving a teacher a bad rating as a form of revenge. This can be tragic for teachers who are simply strict for a good cause especially if the teachers' eveluation rates can be converted to cash rewards. I think students should rate teachers but only if the school has a fair system facilitated by qualified people.
@vonne28th (1494)
• Philippines
30 May 07
I also agree with you coz we are also doing it here in the university and even in my gradeschool and highschool years.
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@mkirby624 (1598)
• United States
7 Jul 07
I think the students evaluating the teacher is a good idea, but only for the teachers' records. We use those type of things as assessments for how well the kids are learning, whether they enjoy how they are learning things, etc. I don't think that they should be used as formal assessments, as a student may dislike the teacher or dislike the subject, and therefore evaluate the teacher based on that. It's an unsafe thing to do. There are several teachers at the school I teach at that kids hate, but they learn A LOT. Those kids return years later and thank those teachers...the same ones that they hated when they were a student and probably would have given a bad evaluation.
• United States
3 Jun 07
It depends on the age of the student. If the student is 12 or younger, their parent(s) and/or their guardian should evaluate the teacher. But if the student is 13 or older, they should be able to evalute the teacher.
@vonne28th (1494)
• Philippines
9 Jun 07
You are right. Thanks
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@lizeri (533)
• Philippines
3 Jun 07
I agree. Students have the right to speak out everything they perceive from their teachers. Also, the reputation of the school depends on the teachers also. What if there are some teachers that do something bad on their students? Or there is something wrong with a certain teacher? How will they improve their service?
@vonne28th (1494)
• Philippines
9 Jun 07
Right. They should have something to do with that.
@shak143 (1280)
• India
30 May 07
I agree with you students has to provide an oppurtunite to choose there lecturer...Basrd on that only organization has to arange the lecturers...
@vonne28th (1494)
• Philippines
9 Jun 07
You are correct. Thanks
@happymom1 (1179)
• United States
8 Jun 07
I think i will agree but you know i make a book long time ago thats my thesis book in college abou Is there any relationship between teachers performance in relation to students performance and the result is no relationship. The student will do their best to learn and the teacher should do their best to teach the student. So the perfomance of the teacher will not really affect to the student as long as the student wanting to learn.