all teachers are required to update their knowledge every five years |
Teachers are those who deliver their knowledge which have been accumulated for a long time in their life to their students. Futhermore, they have a great influence on student's life in that students are supposed to apply what they have learned from their teachers to real world. However, it would cause a big problem in student's process of learning if the knowledges teachers are possessing are already obsolete. Therefore, it is necessary that teachers try to correct and update their knowledge at least every five years. First of all, updating new knowledges in our education have an advantage to prevent students from acquiring wrong informations from their school. now days, we are living in a society where most of the informations and even hypothesis of subjects are rapidly changing because of the increasing research and development of fundamental education. For example, the pluto which was originally defined as one of the planet is recently excluded from a list of planet in that it doesn't meet condition of being planet. Therefore, most of the information about pluto in astronomy textbook which was published at least 3 to 4 years ago can contain incorrect knowledges about it. Futhermore, the research conducted by 'Science' in 2007 said that 25% of the text book made from 10years ago are more likely to have inappropriate information for teachers to teach them to students. Second, updating knowledges are more likely helpful for teachers to have a opportunity to develop the way they teach and raise their efficiency of lecture because they can figure out their weakness point or wrong discipline method while they are searching for new updated informations or comparing other teacher's method of teaching students. For example, my father, who is science teacher at middle school, have recently started to develop his new way to teach to students by searching the other teacher's lecture video clips which are updated on website such as u-tube while he is looking to latest information about science on the websites which is not included in textbooks. On the other hand, some people claim that it is hard to find any relationship between updating knowledges and increasing quality of lecture. However, the study by 'Korea university' refutes the idea well in that the quality of education at whole Korea middle schools this year has been improved much better since the new school policy that made teachers update their knowledges for better education was conducted last years. |