This is from Greg in case you missed it in the comments a few days ago. It’s important:
So my school did student based surveys that give scores of teachers this year (we are told that this is not going to be evaluative just informative). You can check out the company here:
https://www.panoramaed.com/
They did this at the end of last semester. We just got the results over break. Feedback comments (all anonymous) included untruths, nasty youtube like comments, and low percentages on things like “student engagement” (Even though 85% of students said I am always excited to teach the class). There were questions such as “If you walked into the room upset would your teacher care?” which teachers got low scores on.
After seeing the results I went through at least 3 days of having serious thoughts of getting out of teaching and I’m somewhat recovered now but I still am not going back to school tomorrow excited to be there. I found out today (an institute day) that many other teachers (language teachers and non-language teachers) felt exactly the same way. As many know I have spent a lot of time and personal finances getting into CI but when one receives such negativity the question does pop in your mind “Why bother?” If the teacher who teaches with the textbook gets low scores and the CI teacher does too, why bother?
I have spoken my mind to my admin about how these surveys need to be modified to be useful, because I’m afraid they are here to stay. (They respect me and CI so maybe they will listen, but I am just afraid that education is going in this direction-teacher shaming).