■ Direction Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. Typically, an effective response will contain a minimum of 300 words.
■ Question Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use specific reason and examples to support your answer | |
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▶ Topic : Teachers should not make their social and political views known to students in the classroom. | |
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▶ Your Answer :
It is often said that teachers should make their students know their own social and political views. However, I believe that teachers should be neutral especially when they deal with controversial subjects for two reasons: students are likely to have a biased view when they know their teacher's view, and they can learn the best through their own discussion without knowing teacher's opinion. To begin with, if a teacher shows his or her view to students, they may become biased to the view. This is due to the fact that students who lack a sense of judgment tend to pick up their teacher's opinion and belief system without casting doubts. Therefore, although the teacher's view has both of advantages and disadvantages, most of students will consider the view as "the answer". For example, when I was tenth grade, there was a history teacher who was favorable to a political organization. He always said that the organization had promoted a social justice, and voiced his criticism about opinions against the organization. Most of students who took his class thought that his opinion was absolutely right. After graduation, however, I realized that the organization's ideology was controversial among people, and it had not only negative aspects, but also positive aspects. In other words, listening to the teacher's opinion made me have a prejudice. In addition, students can deeply understand subjects when they discuss without knowing teacher's view. This is attributed to the fact that they can learn more effectively by developing their own standpoints by discussing with each other. In comparison, since teachers usually have more well-organized views than their students, showing their opinions will discourage students to think deeply about the subject. According to a study conducted by Seoul National University of Korea in 2012, there was a significant difference between two groups of students when they discussed democracy and socialism after a lecture: Group A was given their teacher's opinion before the discussion, and Group B was not given anything at all. After discussion, both groups took a paper-based examination in order to measure how deeply understand the topic. Interestingly, the average score of Group B was 36 percent higher than the former group. This implies that the teacher's view distract students from thinking deeply. In brief, although teachers' opinions can provide students with more developed ideas, they should not show their personal views because their opinions could make students have tilted views, while students can learn more effectively by discussing their own opinions. | |
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