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Since transmitting knowledge from one to
another is always challenging, being a teacher is not easy. So, a teacher as a
job is usually thought to be a stable, prestigious, and long-term job. However,
teachers should not settle for the present once they become a teacher. They
have to keep learning new theories and new technologies to communicate with
students every year. In this sense, I strongly agree with the statement that
teachers should retrain periodically. Let me explain the reasons to back up my
opinion in the following paragraphs.
For one thing, the technologies are
developing at an enormous space. Consequently, a variety of mediums of teaching
methods are also introduced. If teachers cannot utilize them while young
students being skilled, they would not be able to communicate with students. I
have one example to explain this phenomenon. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic,
all schools are shut down and they changed traditional classes to web classes.
Some teachers easily adapted to them and recorded their lectures and uploaded
class materials online. However, some elder teachers did not make video
lectures and only offered students old paper materials even they are
acknowledged difficulties in using internets they have. At the end of a
semester, finally, those who could not use new technologies got the worst
assessments from students. If not this pandemic, they need to keep learning how
to use the latest technologies such as tablets to teach students more
effectively.
The other is, the knowledge they used to know
may be revealed not true as time goes by. New researches and new theories are
continuously discovered, some knowledge even upset existing theories or
terminologies can be changed. Figuring out new principles may be the work of
scholars, teaching those new rules to others is the work teachers should do. If
teachers remain at that time they first become teachers, no advance exists in
themselves. In the case of Pluto, Pluto is no longer a planet since 2006. Also,
in my country, South Korea, terminologies of chemicals are changed to English
pronunciation from old pronunciation which came from Japanese. Teachers should
accept these alterations so that they can deliver the latest sophistication to
students.
In summary, I believe teachers should develop
new teaching methods as technology develops and new theories which are
discovered later. In order to do that, teachers also have to be educated
periodically. By doing so, they can teach students the latest knowledge more
effectively. Also, it might be a tremendous benefit to students.
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