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In every school, they need a teacher who cares for the students but most importantly, they need a teacher who teaches well. For students, they need a guide toward education. In this sense, teachers surely need to update their knowledge as they teach. There are new technology every year and students and techers need to adopt new method. The rationale behind this is that there are new information needed to be updated every 5 years and also the students' learning style is different every year as technology improves.
To begin with, teachers themselves need to renew their knowledge because they are human and as human, they tend to forget. It is normal for people to forget about the knowledge they earned 5 years ago. If teachers never update their knowledge, there will be a difference between new and young teachers and old teachers who had been in education for a long time. New beginning teachers will teach students with their new style of teaching which will be more efficient for the students to learn. On the contrary, old teachers who have a lot of experience but lack their information will teach students inefficiently. For instance, in my elementary school, there was an old teacher who teached mathamatics to us and she was nice in dealing with students but her teaching method was so acient that we had problem understanding her lessons. Nevertheless, with new system which the teacher relearn the materials and methods, she was able to teach us better.
On top of that, teachers have to keep up with the technology and the styles of learning for students. As technology improves over the year, students use different materials to learn. With internet or personal electronic devices, there are many ways to learn and students are used to using technology in learning. But teachers can be stuck in the old ways. When the students and the teachers don't understand each other, they will have problem in teaching and learning. New devices for learning is the best example to illustrate this point. Nowadays, school is deciding on giving electronic pads to the students for teaching and learning. They have more devices and informations and the students don't need to carry heavy books to school everyday. As the method changes, teacher should learn new technology and information in order to keep up.
In conclusion, teachers should relearn their materials every 5 years since the method and the style change. All in all, teachers should be a students to be a better teacher to their students. |