“Students Evaluate Teachers”

Schools should ask students to evaluate their teachers. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
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I agree to students evaluating teachers. Students may evaluate teachers on the basis of yearly academic growth of their students. This is known as a “value-added,” evaluation.

The purpose of student evaluation of teaching is to provide staff with valid and reliable information with the help of which right and well informed decisions can be made about improving student learning processes and outcomes. Evaluation is a positive process and should be used for the enhancement of staff development and student learning.

Students are the main source of information about the learning environment, including teachers' ability to motivate students for continued learning, rapport or degree of communication between instructors and students. Secondly Students are the most logical evaluators of the quality, the effectiveness of, and satisfaction with course content, method of instruction, textbooks, homework, and student interest. Besides student ratings encourage communication between students and their instructor. Said communication may lead to the kind of student and instructor involvement in the teaching-learning process that can raise the level of instruction. Furthermore student ratings of particular instructors and courses can be used by other students to select courses and instructors, and may increase the chances that excellence in instruction will be recognized and rewarded.

In summary we must accept that good teaching really matters the most. Hence build¬ing a credible basis for teacher evalua¬tion would be an important advance that could contribute, to improved teaching and learning in the long run. But the evaluation process should be absolutely fair and free from any personal prejudice, bias or partiality. Evaluation process must be sufficiently rich to do justice to the complex and multidimensional activity that constitutes teaching.

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“Statue to Honor Famous Person”

Your city has decided to build a statue or monument to honor a famous person in your country. Who would you choose? Use reasons and specific examples to support your choice.
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I am an Indian residing in India. I hail from Baroda in the state of Gujarat. I am follower of the philosophy “Work is Worship”. If I am given the opportunity to suggest as to whose statue must be built in Baroda, I would say Late Mr. Dhirubhai Ambani; founder of Reliance group of industries the most renowned entrepreneur world over.

As a great entrepreneur, he created an empire. He was born in a country side village and his father was a School Teacher with a meager income. Mr. Dhirubhai after having passed his tenth grade went to Aden where he was hired as a petrol pump attendant. One fine day he got an idea of building up his own Oil Refinery. Although it sounds quixotic and a crazy idea for a petrol pump attendant to want to build a refinery of his own; nevertheless he could build the biggest single grass root Oil Refinery of the world in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. This is well known worldwide as Reliance's 25-Million Metric Ton Oil Refinery that went on stream in 1999. This achievement is purely due to the persistent hard work of Late Mr. Dhirubhai Ambani. Reliance is the first Indian company to feature in Forbes 500 list

Dhirubhai Ambani was a great visionary and the most enterprising Indian entrepreneur. His life journey is reminiscent of the rags to riches story. He is remembered as the one who rewrote the Indian corporate history and built a truly global corporate group. Dhirubhai Ambani died on July 6, 2002, at Mumbai.

In conclusion, his statue shall be a great source of motivation to population by large and especially younger generation in their journey to success and building a powerful nation.

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