▶ Your Answer : In these days, public education systemis main issue for society since every students and their parents heavily rely on the school's education and its guidance. Thus it is surely important to assess the teachers' teaching efficiency. Some people insist that teachers' teaching ability should reviewed by other teachers and the others say that students should be in the position to evaluate the efficiency of the teacher's teaching skills. I firmly agree with the latter opinion that students should be the core for assessing the teachers for following reasons.
First of all, the students are direct respondents from teachers' educational actions which include ways of teaching, knowledge of the subject or opinions on certain matters. To be more specific, the other teachers not easy to check the teachers' educational efficiency due to they do not have much more chance to take the lectures from each others, comparing the students. From my experience, as a teacher of high shool, myself, I am teaching the science and the shool has the three more teahers who teach the same subject. Even though somtimes we shrare the main idea about the subject and curriculum, do not express the one's opinion about the others teaching efficiency. However, at the end of the semesters I can get evaluation of my teachings from the students whom I teach and it is much helpful for improvement of my next semesters.
Secondly, students can evaluate the teachers based on different types of educational style which are much more convincing than review from teachers at the same schools or fields. For example, when I was in high school, for the better score on Korean literature I took the private academic course out of the school. It gave me the different style of the lecture of Korean literatrue. They put on emphasis on the skill of the solving problems on test. Within the experience from two types of lecture I was able to compare the teachers and it was more fair to review their efficiency on instruction.
To sum up, I undoutedly believe that considering the importance of the public education, students' opinion on their teachers' efficiency of instructions is much more critical than the other techers'. Since physically they have much more time-spending with the teachers who give the lectures and with experience from the out side of the school education, they are eligible for evaluation. |