Some people might disagree the statement that it is more beneficial for teacher to give them academic knowledge. Of course, I agree to some degree that the role of teacher is to develop academic knowledge of their students. However, we should not miss the fact that students can more improve their academic performances when teacher give student self-confidence.
First, students tend to study harder when teacher encourages them. Let me take some independant schools in my country. Unlike public school, they offer courses which are attractive to students as they are fanded by parents and businesses. Theses schools are concerned more about nurturing their students with diverse talents and personalities. in order to meet this goal of education, Student participaint in a variety of courses including sociablity and artistic ability through many different activities. Naturally, teacher have a lot of chances to get along with their students teachers in and out of school making sure their students enjoy school life. As a result, with a private intimacy between teacher and students, teacher can give more effectively motivation for concentrating on school classes. Actually, the research in 2010 studied by the ministry of education says that students in independant school tend to get the higher 36% in KUET,( Korean University Entrance Exam) than standardized high schools. This result shows that there is very close relationship of the respective encouragement of teacher and academic achievement.
Second, to give self-confidence can increase in the concentration on classes. In fact, the reason many student are not interested in their classes is that they can not catch up with the contents in classes if they miss the point once. Then, students lose self-confidence in their study. However, at the moment, If teacher help them by cheering up their self-esteem for study, they can participate in their classes very actively again. For example, when I was high school student, my English teacher was native. At first, all students, including me couldn’t speak a word because we had to only speak in English during English time. Many students started to lose confidence. However, Native teacher praised whenever we did response to the questions of teacher, even false answer. In order to receive teacher’s applause, we spend more time preparing for the next class. We actively get involved and focused English class.
All things considered, in order to achieve effectively academic ability, I believe that the most important skill is to give students self-confidence. Therefore, no one can deny the importance of encouragement, because this leads to concentration on class and the motivation for studying harder. |