A great change is now taking place in higher education throughout our country. Teachers are being held responsible as never before for how well they serve their students. It has become as common in colleges and universities for students to grade teachers as for teachers to grade students. In some universities students’ rating has even become the only source of information on teaching effectiveness.
This, however, has caused great controversy. Some are in favor of the rating system. They hold that since students attend the teachers classes everyday, they should have their opinion about their teachers’ effectiveness. Others, on the contrary, are strongly against it. They think that students’ rating is easy to administer and score, but it also is easy to abuse. They believe that there is much more to teaching than what is shown on students’ rating forms. Students should not be expected to judge whether the materials used are up to date or how well the teacher knows about the subject.
These judgments require professional knowledge, which is best left for the teachers’ colleagues.
I think students’ rating of their teachers is necessary, but it should be conducted in a way that can really shed meaningful light on teachers’ performance. Instead of rating the teachers’ knowledge on the subject, students should be asked to estimate what they themselves have leaned in a course, and to report on such things as a teacher’s ability to communicate with students, his relationship with students, and his ability to arouse interest in the subject.
Students’ Rating of Their Teachers(學生評價老師)
1．學生給老師打分已很普遍；
2．人們對其持不同態度；
3．我的看法
[寫作導航]第一段宜寫高校改革所帶來的變化使得學生評價教師很普遍,在有些高校學生的評價甚至成為教師教學好壞的惟一尺度；第二段應寫對這一做法,人們有不同的看法,有人贊成,認為學生最有發言權,而有人則反對,認為學生不具備評價教師的素質,對諸如教學材料、教師業務水平等的評價應由教師的同事來完成；第三段寫我的看法,我認為,學生評價教師有必要,但要切實做到對教師的教學有幫助,例如可讓學生評價在某門課上所學到的知識如何,興趣如何等等.
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A great change is now taking place in higher education throughout our country. Teachers are being held responsible as never before for how well they serve their students. It has become as common in colleges and universities for students to grade teachers as for teachers to grade students. In some universities students’ rating has even become the only source of information on teaching effectiveness.
This, however, has caused great controversy. Some are in favor of the rating system. They hold that since students attend the teachers classes everyday, they should have their opinion about their teachers’ effectiveness. Others, on the contrary, are strongly against it. They think that students’ rating is easy to administer and score, but it also is easy to abuse. They believe that there is much more to teaching than what is shown on students’ rating forms. Students should not be expected to judge whether the materials used are up to date or how well the teacher knows about the subject.
These judgments require professional knowledge, which is best left for the teachers’ colleagues.
I think students’ rating of their teachers is necessary, but it should be conducted in a way that can really shed meaningful light on teachers’ performance. Instead of rating the teachers’ knowledge on the subject, students should be asked to estimate what they themselves have leaned in a course, and to report on such things as a teacher’s ability to communicate with students, his relationship with students, and his ability to arouse interest in the subject.