▶ Your Answer :
There can be
various ways of evaluating and paying teachers. It is often considered not fair
to pay all the teachers equally, and students’ performance is one of the most
popular criteria for different payment. I don’t think, however, it is a
desirable method. The performance of students is not dominated only by
teachers. Moreover, there is no one fixed method for evaluating student
performances.
To begin with,
there are so many factors which affect students’ performance. In addition to
teachers’ abilities or working hours, it is rather crucial how much the
students are bright, enthusiastic and studying hard. Usually teachers give the same
lecture to many students simultaneously. Would all the students understand the
lecture equivalently? Maybe not. Most students would get different test scores
from the same lecture. When I was in the high school, my history teacher had
given all the classes just the same lectures; even jokes of the day. Also, all
the students had the same materials. However, there were still perfect students
and others doing not so well.
Additionally, I
wonder if there is an absolute way of evaluating students’ performance. The
evaluation can be done by student’s test scores, prizes bestowed, or the number
of students who entered famous universities, etc. These methods seem to be
usual in schools these days. But it is not the case that students who got
higher test scores become definitely happier. There are tremendous varieties of
ways to live, and it would be impossible to compare each life with others. To
illustrate, one of my friend was not good at getting high scores in tests,
while she was able to write magnificent essays. I think her achievement is high
enough.
As students are
all different individuals, their achievements would be different respectively.
And those achievements are unique for each student. That is, no one can
illustrate students’ so-called performance with just a handful of figures. Conclusively,
teachers should not be paid according to only the performance of their
students. More sophisticated criteria would be required. |