#102: Schools should ask students to evaluate

[Mesh]

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

 

Primary function of a school is to impart education to students by using teacher as the medium. Success of a school depends on the symbiosis between the students and their teachers. While a teacher has an authority over a student, it is also necessary that the students have their voice regarding their teacher's behaviour. So I agree with the view that the schools should ask students to evaluate their teachers.

 

In schools where students are not given right to evaluate their teachers, it has been observed that the most of the teachers use their liberties to ill-effect by punishing certain students indiscriminately and by being biased to those students whom the teacher likes.For example, a jingoist teacher might treat students from foreign countries indiscriminately by punishing them even though they may not be worthy of that or by passing blunt comments. Certain teachers impose undue authorities over the students which could be detrimental to their liberties. In case of lack of communication between the students and the school management , these actions go unnoticed.

 

When the school asks the students to evaluate their teachers, the school management will get proper feedback from the students about their teacher's performance. This can be done by forming student's committee wherein the representatives of the students would express the thoughts of the students about their teachers freely. This would tone down any malfeasance by the teachers and also would improve the teacher-student relationship.

 

Though the formation of such committee for evaluation of teachers would prove beneficial to the school, care must be taken by the school authorities before handing away certain freedom to the students, since these powers could be misused by the students like blackmailing the teachers or being rude to them. All in all, if the school gives an authority to students to evaluate their teachers, with certain rules and guidelines, the school could truly be called as an abode of attaining education and liberties.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plz evaluate this essay!Plz comment on the length and grammar.And do let me know if any other essay on this topic is available!(I have my TOEFEL tomm :p)

Mesh

[Vaya]

The very quick comment: Grammar fine, length fine, but the intro and conclusion are too long. It should be 2-4 sentences only. It's better to write the 3rd body para.

 

Good luck. Renata

 

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[Mesh]

Thanks for the comment!Plz suggest the topic 3rd body para should cover in this case?

Mesh

[Erin]

Originally posted by Mesh

 

The Primary function of a school is to impart education to students by using teacher as the medium. Success of a school depends on the symbiosis between the students and their teachers. While a teacher has an authority over a student, it is also necessary that the students have their voice regarding their teacher's behaviour. So I agree with the view that the schools should ask students to evaluate their teachers.

Very nice intro, but some minor grammar errors. I don't think this is too long.

 

Originally posted by Mesh

 

In schools where students are not given right to evaluate their teachers, it has been observed that the most of the teachers use their liberties to ill-effect by punishing certain students indiscriminately and by being biased to those students whom the teacher likes.

Is this true? It sounds like you just made it up.

 

Originally posted by Mesh

[brFor example, a jingoist teacher might treat students from foreign countries indiscriminately by punishing them even though they may not be worthy of that or by passing blunt comments. Certain teachers impose undue authorities over the students which could be detrimental to their liberties. In case of lack of communication between the students and the school management , these actions go unnoticed.

You've spent a lot of time on this example. I hope you still have enough time to develop the more important parts of your essay.

 

Originally posted by Mesh

 

When the school asks the students to evaluate their teachers, the school management will get proper feedback from the students about their teacher's performance. This can be done by forming student's committee wherein the representatives of the students would express the thoughts of the students about their teachers freely. This would tone down any malfeasance by the teachers and also would improve the teacher-student relationship.

Be careful! The prompt is NOT asking how to go about evaluating teachers, but simply whether or not it's a good idea to do so.

 

 

 

Score: 4.5

 

I think parts of this essay are off-topic, which lowers your score.

 

Your writing, grammar, etc., are all very, very good. You just need to stay on topic to get a 5.0, 5.5, or even a 6.0.

 

You can see samples of this topic at http://www.TestMagic.com/test/MenuOfXEssays.asp

 

HTH!

 

Good luck, Mesh!!

[priti]

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

 

To improve the teachers’ teaching qualities I agree with the above statement that schools should ask students to evaluate their teachers.

 

Firstly, if this is not the case some teachers may become lazy as well as they may start doing partiality among students. They may give good grades to only those whom they like and may give bad grades to the students whom they don’t like even if they scored good.

 

Secondly, in some schools, teachers never bother to teach and they are only interested in their salary. They won’t take classes properly and even if they take they won’t teach anything. Some teachers never try to explain the subject giving examples and they never clear the doubts what students have about the subject. Some teachers will be very fast in teaching and some will be very slow and this makes the class boring so students won’t pay attention.

 

Some teachers will be very good in the subject but they will not be knowing to present the subject properly and some teachers may have very poor communication so they can’t even convince properly what they wanted to teach.

 

Thus if schools ask students to evaluate their teachers, then it is possible that teachers may overcome from their weak points. They may improve their teaching qualities.

 

[ccll11]

to mesh:

 

Primary function of a school is to impart education to students by using teacher as the medium. Success of a school depends on the symbiosis between the students and their teachers. While a teacher has an authority over (a) the student(s), it is also necessary that the students have their voice regarding their teacher's behaviour. So I agree with the view that the schools should ask students to evaluate their teachers.

 

In schools where (should be which) students are not given right(s) to evaluate their teachers, it has been observed that the most of the teachers use their liberties to ill-effect by punishing certain students indiscriminately(it should be discriminately,do you agree?) and by being biased to those students whom the teacher likes(like).For example, a jingoist teacher might treat students from foreign countries indiscriminately(should be discriminately) by punishing them even though they may not be worthy of that or by passing blunt comments(to them). Certain teachers impose undue authorities over the students which could be detrimental to their liberties. In case of (the)lack of communication between the students and the school management , these actions go unnoticed.

 

When the school asks the students to evaluate their teachers, the school management will get proper feedback(s) from the students about their teacher's performance(s). This can be done by forming student's (students') committee wherein the representatives of the students would express (the thoughts of the students) their thoughts will be better about their(the) teachers freely. This would tone [/size]([/size][/size]tune[/size] maybe) down any malfeasance (malbehaviours maybe,but i am not sure )by the teachers and also would improve the teacher-student relationship.

 

Though the formation of such committee for evaluation(evaluating) of (the) teachers would prove beneficial to the school, care must be taken by the school authorities before handing away certain freedom to the students, since these powers could be misused by the students like blackmailing the teachers or being rude to them. All in all, if the school gives an authority to students to evaluate their teachers, with certain rules and guidelines, the school could truly be called (as) an abode of attaining education and liberties.