Student Survey Coming about Teachers but Why?
Update: I neglected to say - if my children were still in SPS, I would tell them to say no to any kind of survey about their teachers. It is not required and frankly, there is too much leeway for kids to not understand the questions being asked and/or decide to muck about with phony or false answers. If someone's job is on the line because of this, how much input should students impressions be given? How would you feel if this were your job? End of update. Several weeks back I became aware that some Seattle PTAs were working with the district, students on the Seattle Youth Commission, SPS Research, Evaluation & Assessment and "teachers associated with Teachers United" on a student survey. To whit via McClure PTA: --The work is to conceive, define and implement a structured survey of students' perceptions of their teachers. - The objective of the surveys is to provide all teachers insight that can use to better inform their teaching practice for each...