▶ Your Answer : It is often said that teachers' first priority is to communicate with students well and understand them from their view point. However, I firmly believe that the teachers must concentrate on instructing their students effectively rather than getting along with them because of two reasons : to let them be successful in life and to increase their performance in class. To begin with, the teachers' capability to teach the students enables them to be successful in life. This is attributed to the fact that thought by a teacher who has a efficient teaching skill, students get to be able to study in a more effective way. By doing so, they can get good grades in school and end up going into one of the famous universities in nation. Moreover, as modern society is becoming increasingly competitive, today's job market requires job candidate with a degree from noted universities. According to the Ministry of Labor of Korea in 2008, the degree coming from honorable universities was the most important component in hiring practice, taking up more than 70 percent of the final calls. The interviewers significantly considered what university the applicants graduated. This implies that the teacher's ability to instruct students in a better way has a direct correlation with the students' success in the future. In addition, being instructed by a teacher who is competent in teaching, the students will increse their academic performance by themselves. This is due to the fact that the teachers' competence for teaching is one of the key motivators for students to perform higher and improve themselves. According to a study conducted by University of California at Los angeles of the United States in 2010, there existed a huge difference bewteen two groups of students in achievement. Students in group A were thought by a teacher who is good at imparting his knowledge to students and those in group B were thought by an uninitiated instructor. The researchers showed that the former group spent more hours studying by 25 percent and performed higher than the latter group. In particular, the students in group A followed instructions, submitted assignments on time, and participated in class discussion. On the other hand, those in group B dozed off in class and lacked focus in class materials. This implies that the higher teachers' ability to teach students, the more the student pour in their study. In brief, instructors' ability to give knowledge to students is more important than maintaining a stable relationship with the students by relating well to them. All in all, teachers having a capacity to give a impressive lecture, students will get better grades and be successful in the future through increasing their academic performance. |