Re: students rating teachers, by name, online - better idea
Posted by heehee! yeah--typed too fast. (I do that with there/their on 8/23/04
and they're sometimes too. Don't know why. Some synapse malfunction. Fortunately I take the time to proofread everything I give to my students. Would hate to be on RMT as the English teacher who can't spell!)
It's nice to know that some students are trying to be honest and thoughtful about their assessments. And I'm sure that thoughtful students know to take the whole thing with a major dose of salt.
On 8/23/04, Vance wrote: > On 8/22/04, The best way to avoid standing it for years wrote: >> Is just to never visit the site. Then it shouldn't bother you. I'd >> imagine few adults go there anyway. It seemed to want to take forever to >> load on my machine, and then there were three or four screens to navigate >> past to get anywhere anyhow. I gave up. LOL...so I guess if there are >> kids on there writing "she's impatient and easily bored," I have no right >> to complain. Really, I'd equate the site with kids writing stuff on the >> desk about you. And if students are going there writing all kinds of >> untrue nonsense about their teachers, I'll bet there are also a small >> percentage of teachers who go their pretending to be students and writing >> glowing assessments of themselves. >> >> Anyway, I tell my snippy kids, "I'm not hear for you to like me. I'm >> hear to teach you English." >> > > You're an English teacher? lol...hear. We all make mistakes I guess. > > And yeah, I bet some teachers do that, I looked at the comments for this one > teacher I know, and they said really great things, even though that teacher > is horrible and every other comment was a bad one. > > And the whole comments thing isn't an issue for my school. Most of the > comments I see are good or just true and construtive critiscism, and aren't > bashing the teachers personally.
