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Ce qui est intéressant pour l’enseignant...

English translation: Teachers will find it useful/it is useful for teachers

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French term or phrase:	Ce qui est intéressant pour l’enseignant...
English translation:	Teachers will find it useful/it is useful for teachers
Entered by:	suezen

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16:59 Jul 16, 2006

French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy

French term or phrase: Ce qui est intéressant pour l’enseignant...

Ce qui est intéressant pour l’enseignant, c’est de mesurer les résultats de ses élèves pour évaluer ses propres performances, pas celles de son prédécesseur.

I'm not sure how to translate this sentence as I can't work out who the pronouns belong to. Does it mean the pupil's performance and not their predecessors (also pupils) or does it mean the teacher's teaching performance and not that of the teacher's predecessor? Thank you for any help clearing this up.

Amelie-san

Teachers will find it useful/it is useful for teachers

Explanation:
Teachers will find it useful to measure their pupils' results in order /so as to assess their own performance rather than that of their predessor

Selected response from:

suezen
Local time: 09:37

Grading comment

4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +11

Teachers will find it useful/it is useful for teachers

suezen

4 +4

What is interesting/significant for the teacher is to measure his students' scores

Drmanu49

4 +3

explanation

Maria Karra

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

explanation

Explanation:
This is how I understand it:
By measuring students' performance, the teacher can evaluate his own performance (and not rely on past grades or student results which would only reflect the previous teacher's work/competence).

Maria Karra
United States
Local time: 03:37
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Greek
PRO pts in category: 4

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

What is interesting/significant for the teacher is to measure his students' scores

Explanation:
What is interesting/significant for the teacher is to measure his students' scores so as to assess his performance, not those of the previous teacher

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Note added at 7 mins (2006-07-16 17:06:49 GMT)
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But I am sure you will find a better sentence Amélie.

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Note added at 8 mins (2006-07-16 17:07:56 GMT)
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sorry please read "not the previous teacher's one".

Drmanu49
Local time: 09:37
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 288

9 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +11

Teachers will find it useful/it is useful for teachers

Explanation:
Teachers will find it useful to measure their pupils' results in order /so as to assess their own performance rather than that of their predessor

suezen
Local time: 09:37
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 234

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Jeffrey Lewis: That is absolutely proper bureaucratic language and would be the way a school administrator would write it. The warning is all implied.

10 mins

-> thanks Jeffrey

agree

Aisha Maniar: most succinct suggestion so far

10 mins

-> thanks Aisha

agree

Tony M: Places the emphasis the right way round

16 mins

-> thanks Tony

agree

xxxIanW