Essays: students should evaluate their teachers

TOPIC 102: Schools should ask students to evaluate their teachers. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Essay 1

I agree that school should ask students evaluate their teachers. There are three reasons:

The first, the education is a activity that communicate each other. The information that students evaluate is given to their teacher. The teacher can improve their education skill by this information. If there are no evaluated information by student, the education activity become unilateral activity. The teacher spread their information to students, but the students' information reflects back to teacher are very few. The evaluation can help teacher improve the their skill from time to time.

The second, the evaluation is favor to school management. The management of school evaluate the education of teacher by students' evaluation. The management may prize the good teacher and criticize the bad, and lay the disquligicational teacher.

Finally, the evaluation is in favor to protect rights of students and parents. Students and parents are consumers, they hope that their children will receive good education certainly, they should protect their rights for themselves. When they find the educational skill of the teacher is bad, they may have school changed the teacher immediately.

In a word, I agree this point that students evaluate their teacher.

(Essay ID: 492. This is a 5 point essay)

Essay 2

I think it's a good idea for schools to ask students to evaluate their teachers. This informs teachers of how students react both to their teaching methods and to them as individuals. Teachers can weigh the criticisms and change what they think needs to be changed. Praise from students is also valuable. It can reinforce teachers' opinions about how they're teaching and give them confidence.

It's also helpful for school administrators to hear what students think about their teachers. It keeps administrators in touch with what's going on in the school. It also gives them some idea of which teachers effectively reach the students. However, good administrators know that student evaluations need to be reviewed with a keen eye for prejudice and adolescent attitudes. After all, an evaluation is a good way for students to get back at teachers who expect more of them than they want to give.

Evaluating teachers is also a good exercise for the students. They have to organize their thoughts about what they think of their teachers. In that way, they pinpoint for themselves what they expect of those teachers. They begin to understand what they value in a teacher and what is phony or useless. Evaluating their teachers is also a way for students to think about how they would evaluate themselves. Are they working as hard as they should in class? Is that why their teachers are sometimes critical of their work? Isn't that what a teacher should do-push us to try harder? Thinking about these things can help students do better in class. At the very least, they will understand better what is expected of them.

Student evaluations of teachers also make students feel as if they have a voice in what happens in their schools. It makes them feel as if they're pan of the education process when their opinion is valued by the administration. Finally, it teaches them responsibility.

(Essay ID: 162 )