Dubuque, Ia 52001
9-23-15
Stan Rheingans
2300 Chaney Road
Dubuque, IA 52001
Dear Mr. Rheingans,
I'm Jennifer Bardon and I attend Washington Middle School. I feel strongly that teachers should be graded on how well they teach. Its only fair that students get to do this because schools are all about equal opportunities. The technique each individual teacher has to teaching varies. It's evident that every student has a teacher that they like more or less and sometimes there's large quantities of students that prefer a teacher more than any of the other ones.
Teachers being graded allows students to give them constructive criticism, which is advice that is supposed to help others improve. Constructive criticism is highly effective to achieve your goals. Whether your goals are at home, with your family, around the community, or at a job. The teachers need a way to know what they need to build on to be a better educator. It will strengthen the teachers teaching ability with how they adapt to all the students. Without knowing what students are struggling with teachers can't make plans to help them learn. …show more content…
Students are able to give more comments than an administrative observer because they spend roughly 180 days with a teacher, while those observers come in every once in awhile and the teachers are aware of the visit. Therefore they are able to plan ahead and some teachers act differently than how they do on a regular basis. The students get the teachers daily for seven hours and have them on good days and bad days. With all of the hours students spend with their teachers versus a visitor, students would have a more accurate view on what the teacher does daily than what they do every once in a