This is the second in a series of articles offering student perspectives on how to improve our school.

Something I personally feel would help improve the school is just like in college at the end of the year: You get the opportunity to review your professors and their teaching style and effectivity (in a polite and mature way).

We should also do that with the teachers at the high school. This would be very beneficial because it would give the teachers a chance to review their students’ critiques of them to help the teacher improve for the students in their class the following year.

In the article “Students Evaluating Teachers: What Educators Need to Know,” it discusses how evaluations improve the teachers’ work ethics and how they teach in their classrooms. It also mentions that not only should teachers be evaluated by students at the end of the year, but they should also be evaluated many times throughout the school year.

As a school, I believe we should implement this into our school system so the student body’s voices can be heard on important issues within the school.

References:

“Why Students Should Be Allowed to Evaluate Teachers.” Concordia University-Portland, Concordia University-Portland, 7 Nov. 2012, education.cu-portland.edu/blog/classroom-resources/students-evaluating-teachers-what-educators-need-to-know/.