Dear Editor:
In the last 10 years of my 26 years of being an elementary school (Grade 1 to 6) teacher, I taught Grade 6 with around 40 to 50 or more kids in a class. In this school, there were two sections for each grade level.
Several times before graduation, our school principal asked all of the staff that she would request all of the graduating children (Grade 6) to write an evaluation of any or all the school staff.
They were not required to write their likes/dislikes. The children were honest in expressing themselves as they were not identified, not rated for their report card, and they were able to let go of their thoughts. Their guideline was to look for both teacher/staff and express what the have learned academically and emotionally from them.
This might be one of the many answers to the question: How to grade teachers? Through the students who had direct encounters with the teacher.
Teresita V. Guevara, New Westminster
