Monday, November 28, 2011

Managing Teaching Acts.

It was not really addressed in the Kuma chapter, but one of the things I find equally disturbing about evaluating a teacher's set performance are the surveys that students fill out in order to evaluate the teacher's ability in teaching throughout the semester. These such surveys ask irrelevant questions such as "Was the teacher well prepared for this course?" or "My grade will accurately reflect my performance on tests and quizzes given by the teacher." Truthfully, what does this have to do with how the teacher performs? It says nothing, just simply rehashes some idea that perhaps teaching is something that can be calculated mathematically through surveys and number ratings, rather than actual evaluation. Really, these surveys know nothing about the teacher or the course, because they are pieces of paper administered by organizations who have no connection to the teacher or course itself. Shouldn't real teacher evaluation be done by the students and the teachers themselves? It seems like a pressing matter, and something that is falling in the hands of robotic bureaucracy within the educational system. Those poor saps...

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