▶ Your Answer :School life includes experience involved in
interacting with friends and teachers. Many teachers have through our youth and
take important parts of that time. Some people think that teacher's main job is
only teaching subjects and the other things such as going field trips, letting
know specific career fields, counseling are not their duty and obligation.
However, in my opinion, I strongly believe that teachers should closely
interact with their students about their academic growths and surrounding of them.
There are specific two reasons of that. First, teachers could make it possible
for students to learn effectively. Second, teachers are the leaders of their
fields and have useful information of it. To begin with, by spending lots of time
with their students, teachers could create close membership and they would be
constructive consultants for students. Forming good relationship between them
means that teachers know better how the students' caring environments are, what
their habits and interests are, what career fields they want to go forward and
so on. By taking this information, teachers could counsel precisely about sentimental
and physical issues of them. For instance, I had spent for 3 years of high
school with one teacher, Hee-young Park, because there is the restrictive
number of teachers. She is in charge of Math and also runs extracurricular activity
because she knows a lot math games like moving only one match for shaping a
diagram. My friends and I took the class and began loving Math. She knew about
our interests, so she let us participate in mathematical contest and made us
win. With me getting the prize, we could get a first rank of math grade in
school. Also I still have memorial experience about the subject.
On top of that, teachers are the leader of
their fields and have broad network of it. It is useful for students to know
their roads which they yet did not enter. Also teachers are comparably easier
to contact than the official counselors. Without the teacher's counseling
activities, students need lots of efforts to find proper counselors and it will
be time consuming. For example, Garim High school, Incheon, Korea, runs homeroom
teacher counseling time quarterly. It operates from academic achievement and
other career internships and also students can share their subsidy issues as
well. With this program, students can share their recent issues and dreams and
can get high-quality information and helps.
To sum up, the fact that firstly, effective
learning along with closer relationship between teachers and students, and
secondly, helpful lever of network and brighter sight of career fields of
teachers are connected with the fact that teacher should go over simple only
academic role in school. In this regards, teachers should take lots of roles
including academic, extracurricular and even future forwarding roles. |