There might be some people who believe that it is better for teachers to
be paid according to how well their students
perform in academic studies. However, I disagree with the insistence for the
following two reasons. The concepts of social skills and stress clearly
illustrate the theme.
To begin with, teachers should not only teach academic skills but also
social skills in their classes, because it is
another duty of teachers to make their students
adapt well in society. This would become true
through various activities such as hands-on activities and extracurricular
activities while interacting with diverse other students, so they can build interpersonal relationships and social network. Therefore, teachers also should
spend their class time in making students sociable other than teaching academic
concepts. I will bring up my personal experience as an example. When I was in
elementary school, I had learned many things like baking
and sewing through a host of extracurricular activities in class hours. As a result, a wealthy of experience my abundance of experience could let me adapt well
anywhere I went and make friends easily after then. If my teacher had had
interest in only raising my academic achievement at that time, I would not be
sociable now.
On top of that, students would be stressed out when teachers enforce students
to raise their students’ academic performance. Not always the suppressed
atmosphere warrants to improve students’ academic achievement. There was a
recent survey done by Seoul National University researchers, which reaffirmed
my viewpoint. In my community, they compared two schools having different policies over whether teachers were being paid according to
students’ academic performance. The result of the survey
was that there was no difference of students’ academic achievement regardless
of their policy. Also, the policy brought about a lot of stress for students.
This clearly proves my perspective.
As I mentioned above,
being free from students’ academic performance would be helpful for improving
students’ social skills and reducing stress that students might go through. In
this regard, I strongly believe that being paid according to how well students
perform in academic studies is not better (better을 사용하셨으면 비교대상도 적으세요).