Should or Should Not Student Be Allowed To Grade Their Teacher

SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT STUDENT BE ALLOWED TO GRADE THEIR TEACHER
Of course! Teachers would better understand their teaching abilities thanks to the grades.
Students would need to pay more attention in class, too, because they would need to have
reasons for how they grade them. This would lead them to learn more, anyway. But I don’t
think students should be allowed to criticise their teachers or say mean things about them.
 Students’ attitude towards teaching

Students’ attitude towards teaching. The socio-moral responsibility of our country is
dependent on the education of students as they are considered to be the true wealth of our
nation. It is the duty and right of any individual to get educated at the right time and at the
right place. Under this context, the question arises whether a system of grading teachers by
the students should be introduced in schools to enhance teaching and learning environment.
 Students’ rating of teachers

The rating of teachers. The school administration and the teachers will be able to know about
the performance of the teachers if the system of students’ rating of teachers is implemented.
However, it should not be taken in the negative sense. Gaining knowledge at present has
broadened to such an extent that it challenges even a good teacher to update himself/herself.
Students will also get a good impression about their teachers, and find out if the topic taught
by the teacher, is understood by them. Besides this, the student and teacher relationship build
up greatly and the atmosphere of the class becomes more favourable to learning. Under this
scenario, the confidence and satisfaction level of a student in his or her teacher is boosted.
Hence, this attitude of the student will encourage good teachers to make sustainable efforts to
motivate themselves further on their endeavour to become an excellent teacher in the eyes of
their student. However, it will expose those teachers who are not doing well and ultimately
will drag them to correct their teaching methods. This situation will certainly improve the
quality of teaching and their approach towards students. In all the fields of activity these
days, grading to measure performance of a professional is very common. With this idea in
mind, why not a student evaluates the performance of his or her teacher and accordingly,
grading is given by him. Students might encounter problem with the teacher’s attitude many a
time, but they may not know how to approach and tackle it. Hence, this system will assist
them to raise their voice by grading their teachers. This method may induce and bring
positive changes in the schools.
 Student’s maturity
A maturity pertinent question that always arises in one’s mind is whether the student is
sufficiently mature enough to grade his/her teachers. Students are considered to be young and
inexperienced. It may not be possible for them to assess correctly whether a particular teacher
is good for teaching or not. Hence, the parameters of grading done by them may be too low.
Students may like or dislike their teachers for various reasons that may be attributed are noted
below.
1. The amount of homework given
2. Easiness of tests conducted
3. Leniency in marking tests
4. Appearance of teacher
5. Temperament
6. Personality of the teacher
All the above qualities rated by the students give a favourite impression of the teacher. But,
this attitude of the students is not believed to be good. It may pose a threatening problem to
the teachers by forcing an attitudinal change in them to please the students. It may also make
them focus more on gaining right grades from the students to retain their jobs, rather than
teach them sincerely.
 Misuse of power of grading

Student power of grading are not supposed to be administrators. Their immaturity might
make them misuse the power of grading for their own personal interest. This might end up in
not respecting their teachers. Such situations may create adverse effects in the staffroom
among the teaching staff. On the other hand, students may also be punished for providing low
grades to few teachers. However, grading teachers by students can be done with certain
alterations and conditions in the system or procedure. This grading is useful without any
mistakes. They are noted below:
Grading work should be entrusted to students who are aged more than 10 years since those
below 10 may not understand the procedure meant for grading.
1. Secondly, the student involved in the grading of his or her teacher will be asked to
inform the reasons as to why he or she intends to give grades to the respective
teachers.
2. Thirdly, during the process of grading, it is essential for the student to include the
parents also to be a part of it, to make the grading meaningful.
3. This type of grading involving the parents’ wisdom will certainly make the system
more useful.
4. Parents’ involvement will make their children to assume more responsibility towards
the whole process of grading.
 Important parameters of grading
Important parameters of grading. While students are allowed to grade their teachers, it is very
vital for them to consider parameters of grading. This consists of factors like teacher’s
behaviour, helping nature, using rude, polite or abusive language, temperament and the way
the teacher keeps the class well disciplined. Other factors include teacher’s fair attitude to all
students and not only to some students in particular, paying attention to the entire class, time
management, and punctuality. Students can develop a detailed grading system by ensuring to
include all pertinent points and make a report with problematic areas identified and bring to
the notice of the concerned authority. The entire score of the grading system of the teachers
by their student will not suffer owing to any mistakes. Under this scenario, it will be easy for
the teachers to identify their mannerisms and rectify them through improvements in their
methods of teaching. Besides this, the administration of the school should also see that the
teachers are able to differentiate the correct feedback from the incorrect feedbacks of the
student.
 Conclusion
Conclusion involvement of the school head, parents and the students are considered to be
collectively responsible to grade the mannerisms of the teacher in a fair way. This process is
a useful concept and will yield good results if it is developed and implemented with right
conditions. The future of our country will depend upon how good the students are educated as
they progress in the future. Hence, the system of allowing students to grade their teachers
shall prove to be a boon to the institution, which aims to build and take care of the hopes of
the students.
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grade-their-teachers/
3. https://thecentraltrend.com/74810/opinion/editorials/should-students-be-able-
to-grade-their-teachers/
4. https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/opinion/2016/03/12/voices-should-
students-able-grade-their-teachers/81645656/
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teachers
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SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT STUDENT BE ALLOWED TO GRADE THEIR TEACHER

 Students’ attitude towards teaching

 Students’ rating of teachers

1. The amount of homework given

2. Easiness of tests conducted

3. Leniency in marking tests

6. Personality of the teacher

 Misuse of power of grading

 Important parameters of grading

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