Evaluating Teachers

i don`t think it`s good way the student which evaluate the teacher?? what a weird.. who the first talk or make that weird things ?? the principal?

I love teacher evaluation, Thats were I get some revenge to some terror teachers. cos the letters are anonymous, I tried to insult some teacher with a passion and I tried changing my penmanship. I remember the time I said all the insults to my hated Filipino language teacher. I hate that vile teacher and my critics of him ere all negative.

I'm not sure that I agree everything should be based on a student evaluating a teacher but I can see how this might help if they are having issues out of one in particular. I think that the school administrators understand that there are going to be students that don't take it seriously or that just want to be mean about a certain teacher. BUT there also might be students that really want to learn and the teacher is not giving them what they deserve. I guess my response is related to this one instructor that I have now. I was very excited about the subject and she has not made things easy as far as personal interaction goes. Long story, but the point is that I can tell an adviser but other than that..I have nothing but an evaluation to lean on. If I am not the only student, maybe they will look in to her actions and make the class more pleasant for an up and coming student. I hate the thought if the evaluations being abused..that is what will make them useless but I like the fact that my concerns might get attention if I need them too.

We also evaluate our professors every semester and yup its really required otherwise you'll have problems in enrolling for the next semester. I think the evaluation is for the professors to ponder on and its their choice whether to follow the advice of students.

At the college I went to we did that at the end of every semester the reason for that is so that the teacher learns how to be a better teacher as well as the fact for head to see what teachers they might need to firer if they keep having the same issues with the students. My first year i had a math teacher couldn't teach math to students that are trying o be teachers. Pretty much everyone failed the class first half of the year and the second half of the year.

We also have that kind,we evaluate our teachers on how are their performance in school.It is useful for the school to know who's teacher are not performing well.also encourage the teacher to work well,they will see there performance if the students are happy with their teaching.Its up to them to change or they will stick to the same method and always the same.

There have been times where teacher evaluation was done in the past for me, but really most of the time, it really doesn't do much good. There are just a lot of times where they are going to try and rather attempt to let students think that they have a voice, but really they are just about as voiceless as ever before. There are just times where it is just a front. The only way bad teachers leave as if they rub the administration a wrong way. Some of them are rather protected for any number of shady, political reasons. Sadly as bad as some teachers are, there are many instances where they are the best people for the job. And I shudder to think about that. Some schools don't have quality educators lining up and that is really a sad statement for the future.

As a college student I have to evaluate our teachers every semester every year as you said. As far as my thought I will just take it seriously when it comes to the teachers I like, that is to say in my deep heart I want to show my appreciation to them through this platform. But on the whole I do not like to use a few starched questions to evaluate our teachers and I also feel it is nonsense in large to both teachers or students.

Hi cearn25! I am currently studying teaching, so i understand a bit what its importance, yes you are right teachers cannot be kicked out that easy because they are all certified teachers ( licensed) so the presumption is they are qualified, however there is possibility if his/her performance would not change or if he/she failed to meet the standard set forth by the government in educ.system...( there is due process) Such evaluation is made to find out their effectiveness when it comes to teaching.. because it is important to maintain the standard of educational system, that is why teacher has continuous trainings, seminars, conferences, these are measures for them to always meet the standard. If we think of it, we ( the students ) will be also benefited of such evaluation because teachers has a big role in our learning..

I agree either. While teachers evaluation may have some relevant purpose, I dont think that students evaluating them is reliable, you might say, of course the students are the ones who could evaluate their performance, because they are the ones being taught, but the question is what is the authority or the bases of these students to evaluate when they actually don't know how a good teaching is? Some even rate their professors very high, because he or she is very approachable and friendly but doesnt teach well or who doesnt really know how to teach. Students may also, on the other hand rate a teacher very low just because he or she is so strict where in fact he is a good teacher. Oh, well, Teacher's evaluation, for me is not hundred percent reliable i dont think its even 50% reliable.