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Teaching is a critical job in all ages. Teachers disseminate their knowledge, communicate with their students and affect someone’s life. However, most of them do not have to make a conscious effort for their career because they generally teach the same specific subject and knowledge every year. Some might think that if teachers already have knowledge, it is fine to teach students without any effort, but in my view, teachers should be required to take the course in every five years to update their knowledge for the following reasons.
The first reason that teachers need to be trained regularly is changes in society. In the past, the social changes were not as dramatic as today’s ones, but our society have made a great progress since the late 1980s. It indicates that we need to embrace many changes and demands related to a new environment, but the problem is that school textbooks do not reflect the factors and are rarely revised. In this sense, the teachers’ stalled knowledge and perspectives should be modified as a changing through taking courses, so that students learn more things from teachers. When I was in high school, for example, my social studies teacher always adhered his outdated knowledge, and his explanation did not include any new social phenomenons. If teachers teach students with recognition about the changes of society, their lectures will be more lively and real ones.
Secondly, it is necessary for teachers to motivate themselves. Human beings tend to prefer something familiar and comfortable, and it leads people to fall into idleness. Teachers are as the same as others. To be specific, they always work with the same pattern, which means work with the same knowledge about one subject. The circumstance discourages them to recognize the necessity of improvement related to their professionalism and makes be stuck in a rut. Therefore, they should update their knowledge on and on and find motivation for teaching. Through their efforts, students can also learn more things from them. When I was a teacher, I tried to acquire new teaching skills and information, and it led me to have more confidence and to teach students in combination with more effective method and passion when teaching students.
To be short, teachers will be able to gain new knowledge about changing society and motivation for their jobs when they update their knowledge via various courses. I believe that teachers’ efforts will bring about the advancement of our education system. |