A\D teachers' performance should be evaluated by students rather than by other teachers
Educational improvement as the heatedly discussed issue has beencontroversial since it was raised up. Because of its crucial position in themodern social development, the schools are concerned with the quality of theeducation under scrutiny and one of most useful ways applied by schools is toevaluate performance of teacher. Evaluated by students or other teachers? Icannot agree more on the point that this task should be finished by students.
Firstly, students, not other teachers, are alwayscontacting with their teacher. In terms of teaching methods, class contents andpersonality character, it is student who is most familiar with teachers.Therefore, students will present believable and objective evaluation when askedto do the work at the end of a semester. Those who are incapable to teachstudents or whose methodologies are unwelcomed will get a low score, and as aresult of this, they might be fired or looked down. On no count will teachers sluggishunder this situation. They will spare no effort to enrich their pedagogical andimprove themselves, which is closely related to students' satisfactions andfinally grades. Consequently we can notice a virtuous circle.
Furthermore, if the evaluation is operated byother teachers--i.e., their colleagues, there is no denying that the resultsmay be inaccurate. Relationships among teachers are complex sometimes, forexample, a teacher who is a grand old man or popular in crowd but with a poorability in teaching will gain good marks. Conversely, a introvert specialistmay receive an unfair treatment. Rather than focus on their teaching level, allof teachers in this system will tend themselves more sophisticated, so that theoverall educational development is adversely affected.
Admittedly, the condition of student-centeredevaluation leaves some to be desired. For instance, one of my teachers was astrict man, he was likely to get mad and always criticizing us. Even though thefinal subject mean of our class was the best, we gave him a worst evaluation aswe felt unhappy in progress of study. However this is not an usual problem,most teachers' evaluation can be matched with their ability.
To sum up, although that teachers' performance evaluatedby students may causes some drawbacks, it is still a perfect way to improve oureducational standard. We students can also benefit from the work.
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