Should Students Grade their Teachers?
Some educators suggest student surveys should be part of teacher-effectiveness evaluations.
With all the debate in New Jersey and elsewhere about evaluating teachers on how well their students perform, another idea is starting to surface that could prove equally provocative: judging teachers by what their students think of them. One of the options available to New Jersey school districts as they build teacher evaluation systems is including student surveys among the “multiple measures” of student achievement. The idea is gaining popularity, at least among policy-makers. Several districts that have been part of the pilot program testing evaluation models have included or plan to include student surveys, although not necessarily as part of a teacher's grade. In Alexandria, for instance, teachers survey their students and are …
Tugwalla
7:13 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
7 out ...you proved my point.with teachers like you we are doomed! more ›