Teaching is a weird art. After teaching drums for about four months now, an unexpected obstacle has risen. I get no feedback so I don't know how to improve. If I were to ask a student to critique my teaching style, he would probably just say good and move on because it put him in a bad situation. Not that there are grades with music, but if it were a conventional classroom, a student would be pressured to write an unfair view for fear of saying anything bad about them. It would take some willpower. So really the question is how do teachers become better teachers? Do they judge by their test scores? Since they administered them, they shouldn't. A teacher will never really know how they are doing unless a student directly confronts them, and as I said, it is unlikely to happen. It is a strange art.
I thought the article was bland. I've come to realize something though. Newspaper is boring. There is seldom an interesting editorial. I don't see any reason to read them unless you are trying to become a better writer (hence Blog). I don't think it is fair that teacher's ratings can be made public, and I do not think that shame is the answer either, but I believe the first step to becoming a great educator is becoming humble. They can go hand and hand, but this certainly isn't the way to do it. It is simply not fair. Read the article if you want to, but I wouldn't do it again.
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