| Show Practice of Student Evaluations Needed for Successful Teaching Last spring the university students were introduced to something new instructor We were given a large printed sheet and told to rate our instructors from poor to excellent on everything from personal neatness to punctuality and lesson It was hoped the ratings obtained would be of value to compensate for the printing costs and time consumed from The vast majority of students cooperated fully and gave their unbiased ratings of two quarters have elapsed since the Can anyone say the instructor evaluation has promoted better Has it really It is only too apparent that the need for which the evaluation was started still Few instructors consolidate their notes and lectures into practical outline The blackboard is still the only training aid used in most classes overlooked completely in obscure language is still used by many coupled with uninteresting Frequently an self-assuming attitude on the part of the instructor repels questioning and class Discussion classes are left to ramble It would seem that to correct such faults something more than a student's rating of his instructors is Especially since the constructive criticism has been all but This is indicative of the small role most feel the student plays in their An instructor must remember he is only lecturing because he has In addition to being an expert in his he must be an expert on Students are his raw The skill with which he fashions this raw material into educated human beings is his measure of If his students leave his classes bewildered and unenlightened he must certainly be called a In an attempt to avert these can we not have established compulsory courses for instructors in student fundamentals of public the importance of training and other classes that would help to plant the student viewpoint into university As is often the an may have his doctor's degree but be quite deficient in his ability to handle much less teach The Army has much better instruction than can be found on the college level because they have stripped it down to the bare They insist that an instructor accept the student's and talk as he They know that a can learn and remember only a fraction through lectures of what he can learn through lectures plus training aids third 1 dimensional and Surely a university should not be outdone by the Army in its Bill |
