Nyla David

    Grading Teachers?

 

            Since the beginning of time, the basic structure of schooling has always placed teachers in charge. The teacher gives out tests, quizzes, and homework while the students serve as the listeners and the recievers. Typically, students complete these handouts to the best of their ability then get graded based on how many answers they get right or wrong. Teachers sometimes give assessments to students without even thoroughly going over the information on the tests. There have been countless times where students were not successful with these tests because their teachers haven’t fully explained the topic or there was not been enough practice to understand the formula. “Why would you give us this test if you’ve never taught the material?” asks Keenan Jones ‘19. It’s unfair and inconsiderate to have students go in blind on tests and quizzes, having a potential outcome of failure.

         This is why students should be given an opportunity to be able to grade their instructors, but only based on their teaching abilities and material depth so that students have a fair chance to be successful in their class. “If my teachers taught better & I was able to grade them, I’d have straight A’s,” ‘says Paige Prather ‘22. The grading scale would be 1-10 instead of A-F. 10 being yes, they taught the information to the best of their ability, and 1 being no, they didn’t teach this information at all. I think this assessment should be given after every test the students take based off of if they learned the information that they were being tested on. The students wouldn’t be grading it if they understood the information, but only if the teacher taught it elaborately. We should definitely put this into consideration to improve the test scores and grades of our students, and improve the teaching skills of our fellow teachers. “If teachers aren’t doing what they’re supposed to do, how are we supposed to get good grades?” Isa Sanchez ‘20 concludes.

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