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agree feed back role model
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In my opinion, ideal teachers are those who can stimulate and help students to persue the meaning in certain subjects. This stimulation, I believe, can be most effectively generated when students receive timely feedbacks and perceive their teacher as role model. Considering thoes factors for good teachers, parents are most likely to be the best teachers.
Feedback, which is one of the key factors in the process of learning, can be most effective tool to help students realize the right way to achieve their goal when a recepient gets it right after a certain event occurs, according to the study of psychologists. This theory has been proven by numorous experiment with both animals and children. Taking into account of the power of feedback, effective teachers are those who can give feedbacks to students when they need it. In school, even though there are many types of offical form of feedback is occuring, they are not sent to students in a timely manner. The most typical form of feedback in school would be tests. When we have a close look at those tests, we soon realize that there are not many teachers and students who are interested in getting feedback from the result of tests! Somehow the means of learing bacame the ultimate goal of learning in schools. Whereas, in home, children can have active communication with their parents just because of curiosity. This natural process which does not contain artificial processes like official tests, are much more condusive to stimulate childrens' inteligence by making continuous feedback between parents and children.
More importantly, the scope of lessons from teachers should not be confined to specific subjects, rather it should include the purpose and meaning of life. This can be presented to students by demonstrating the act of pursuing these values. For example, when I was about 10, my family, unfortunately, bankrupted. At that time, I realised that without money, I can not have popular toys my friends have, and even can not eat what I want to eat. However, my mother told me that happiness is not comming from what you wear, or what you eat, but it comes from out heart. Now, when I look back myself, I can assert with certainty that my mother was a true teacher who influenced my life most. As my personal experience reflects, parents are at the position where children are most likely to be affected by their speech and behavior, the role of parents certainly is very closely related to the role of teachers.
Parents are always around children giving them promt response to their questions and telling them what they should do. Also, their attitude towards life affects children too. Therefore, considering the fact that children can get active feedback from their parents and persue the value their parents present, parents are the most powerful and the best teacher for children.