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Recently, necessity of education courses for teachers in every 5 years is issued in Korea. Some people say that those courses are not necessary for high educated teachers and they are just wasting national budget. But in my opinion, all teachers should update their knowledge in every 5 years, because they have to get along with changes of the world, also changes of knowledge, and updating knowledge can remind their first passion of their work.
First, because world is changing fast, teachers need to update their knowledge by following up the changes of world. Those changes may alter knowledge that was right before. When I was in an elementary school, I taught that Korea is abundant of waters. But now, we say that Korea need to limit using water for lack of water. Because world is changing so fast, national regulations, such as urban management plans or urban basic plans, are forced to be modified in every 5 years. For these reasons, it is necessary for teachers to update knowledge in every five years.
Second, through education, teachers can remind passion of their first class. Not only teachers, but most of works get frustrated as time goes by. And it brings low quality of their output and sometimes ruins their work. My friend is teaching at elementary school for 7 years. She was in high passionate in her job and was best teacher for her students. But at fourth year, she felt tired of teaching and wanted to quit her job. But she entered master courses for education and found her own passion again. Teachers output is not a just product but our children so it is very important for teachers to have passion on their work and concentrate their whole mind on their student.
Updating knowledge not only mean to update only knowledge, which need for getting along with fast changes, but also refueling their energy for teaching. For these reasons, teachers must have chance to update their knowledge in every five years. |