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My students at the time thought it was a big mystery, but I and the other teachers all knew it was coming, we were just staying quiet about it out of respect.It was over Christmas break several years ago. The teacher in question was an older gentleman who should have retired before it got as bad as it did for him, but I think he needed a reason to wake up and feel useful every morning. He had no wife or kids and I think his job was all he had going for him.The previous summer, our old principal… the one who hired this teacher some 40 years earlier… retired and a new, younger, more energetic principal took their place. That new principal inherited the entire faculty for the next year… the contracts had already been signed.There was friction between the new principal and the older teacher immediately. At our summer meetings, the new principal introduced a new online teacher evaluation form that we had to complete every month. It was a little complicated and seemed pointless to all of us, but we were told to do it, so we did.Except the older teacher. He sat in the meetings and refused to touch the computer in front of him. He’d always had a strong anti-technology tendency in class.Over the next few months, the new principal made several other changes, most of which we all thought were positive changes, and all of which the old teacher refused to participate in. He just kept doing what he’d been doing for the previous 40 years.By November of that year, the decision had been made that he had to go. At his request, he was allowed to stay until Christmas break, so he could use the break to clean out his room and still have time for his replacement to move into the room. He also requested that no students be told he was leaving, and that this would be listed as a mid-year retirement for medical reasons, not that he was being fired.I ended up helping him move some of his stuff out of his room over Christmas break.When the students returned, they all asked about him. All the teachers would say was that “he retired.” The students thought it was odd that he’d do that in the middle of the school year.

Yes, some professors do take it seriously. Prof. Jagadish Kumar of IIT-D electrical engineering department collects the feedback forms, puts them in an envelope, seals them in front of the entire class and asks one representative from the students. He would open the seal after the examinations are over and results are out in the presence of the representative so that it's clear he's not biased by feedback.He told us in the 90s when he began teaching he got largely negative feedback and corrected himself. Today he is one of the most respected professors.

Teachers are evaluated, in public schools across the US. And, teachers are fired, every day, based upon those evaluations. (Those who do not understand tenure laws may not tell you this, but, yes, tenured teachers are fired every day, as well).As to the specific “evaluation tool” used, that varies a bit from one locale to the next. In some states, the laws require that the same tool be used on a statewide basis. You can access those, as examples, on the Internet. In some states, the local districts are allowed to create their own, according to the state guidelines, and then submit them to the state for final approval. Many local districts also post these on their own district’s websites, for the public to read.Here is one sample, from a Maryland School District, as a .pdf form:https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=V0-xWsfEJq7Z5gLn0oWgDw&q=teacher+evaluation+form&oq=teacher+evaluation+form&gs_l=psy-ab.3...1534.7508.0.7982.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.DzK5-F0IRvc