As fourth quarter wraps up, the teachers are required to give a survey to their students as an evaluation of the quality of their teaching.  The survey consists of questions about the teacher’s work ethic, class activities, and the success of their teaching methods, in addition to recommendations on what they could do better in the future.

However, much like the drug survey that students take in middle school through high school, they do not take these questionnaires seriously or answer them honestly.  Therefore, when a teacher reads over the results to see paper after paper filled with strictly fives on a 0-5 grading scale, they are not receiving accurate feedback.

If a student acts out in class and is constantly getting into conflicts with a certain teacher, then they are obviously going to give them a negative response, regardless of if they deserved it or not.  The point of these surveys is to help the teachers improve, but they can not do so when nobody gives an honest opinion.

At this age kids jump at any opportunity to say “funny” and immature things, and anonymous surveys are the perfect time to do so.  Knowing that the students will not take it seriously, I personally think it is pointless and a waste of everyone’s time.  The best and most accurate way to help the administration evaluate teachers it to critique teachers themselves based on their teaching methods and how their students responded to them as a whole.