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97 do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Teachers should be paid according to how much their students learn.
How to evaluate teachers’ work and thus reward them is a delicate question as no single criterion is appropriate alone. In my opinion, to pay teachers according to how much their students learn is also a vague and unfair one. I will elaborate my standpoint in details in the following paragraphs.
For one thing, it is difficult to scale accurately how much students have really learned from their teachers. Some people may argue that the mark student get in the exam is a good indicator, however it is far from a perfect one. How about the exam is too easy and all students score high? Can we conclude that the teacher has done an excellent job? On the other hand, if the exam is very difficult and thus students all get low marks. Can we say the teacher is not qualified? Even if the test itself is carefully designed, we cannot arbitrate that students with high marks must have learned more than those with unsatisfactory scores because exams could only test a small part rather than all of the knowledge students have learned.
A more subtle reason is that deciding a teacher’s pay only through how much his students learn is unfair and unreasonable. Compared with teachers, students themselves play a more important role in the process of learning. The more a student pay attention to his study, the more he learn. It is ridiculous that a student could grasp knowledge without his own diligent work. Hence, students should swim to the destination of success by themselves, while teachers could only conduct them.
The last, but not the least, teacher is not the only person that teaches students. Besides learning from teachers, students could also study from parents or even from classmates. It is impossible to tell apart the devotions from different people. Actually in some people’s eyes, parents are their best teachers.
Admittedly, to pay teachers according to how much their students learn has some merits and is not a bad method especially when we could not find better alternatives. But we should never forget its above limitations as well.
In conclusion, judging a teacher by how much his students learn may be a feasible yet far from a perfect idea because it is vague, unfair and difficult to scale. In reality, a student’s success comes from teachers, parents, classmates and more important, himself, while teachers only play a part of the role.
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发表于 2005-8-14 22:18:00
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