Opinions vary regarding whether all school teachers should be required to take the courses in every five years to update their knowledge. Regarding to this issue, I agree with the above-statement for several reasons. Since teachers are the one, who can help students hidden talent and guide right direction to them, they need to widen their knowledge on this rapid-changing society, periodically.
First, teachers are able to encourage students to find their potentials by keeping the latest knowledge. In this competitive world, students are forced to study excessively hard to cope with harsh challenges. As a result, they might not know what interests them. In this respects, teachers could be the only one, who can help students discover their hidden talents and interests. To give these appropriate advices, teacher also need to hone and widen professional backgrounds by taking courses in at least once in five years. According to recent studies, conducted by Bain & Company, many of Top 100 CEOs in Korea responded that their teachers always tried to learn their professional skills by enrolling extra courses, and these efforts lead them encourage to develop their talents. They also stated that if it had not been for the teachers' exemplary help, they could not achieve today's success, and might not know what to pursue. In this sense, school teacher have to take courses regularly, which could reflect latest information.
Secondly, by taking courses on regular basis, teachers are able to guide students to right directions with newly updated information. Many students are too immature to tell from the wrongs, and thus they sometimes make poor choices, which sometimes can not be revocable. In this respect, teachers who are informed newly updated knowledge by taking courses regularly, can help them to fix their choices by teaching life lessons for coping with this rapid-changing society. To be more specifically, there are many students, who have some problems on addictions to drugs or drinking. Their immature friends might not know how to solve the problems either, and thus the problems could be getting worse as time goes by. Regarding to dealing with these problem, teachers, who updated their knowledge and gained insights from taking courses, could advise them to lead better directions than their friends could by giving life lessons, such as moralities and responsibilities.
To sum up, teacher are strongly recommended to take courses to be informed the latest knowledge. This is because by doing so, teachers can more easily encourage students to discover their hidden talents, and guide them to grow up more exemplary adults.