I30-老师的薪水

冷月钟笛

Issue 30. Teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance.


Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.


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赶时间写的，总觉得有些地方些许蹩脚~


老师的薪水应该和她的教学水平与教学表现相挂钩：
1.    学生的学术表现固然是衡量一个教师能力的标准，毕竟一个连课都教不好的老师肯定不是好老师，薪水也应该有所减少；
2.    但学生的学术表现可能与其他因素有关，有时即使老师尽心竭力，学生的成绩依然可能不理想。因此仅仅以学生的成绩表现衡量一个老师的能力，有失公允；
3.    除了培养学生的学习能力，传授书本知识之外，老师还需要具备其他素质，以便更好地perform teaching




Education is a special industry different from other commercial ones, and teachers' job is not merely confined in gaining profits like others' work. This makes the evaluation about how much money a teacher deserves a little different and somehow complex. After all, the salary issue should be based on the teachers’ performance in teaching, and this performance may be related to many factors. The speaker considers that teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance. I concede he is right to some extent. However, other necessary factors and standards should also be considered for a comprehensive conclusion.


Admittedly, there is no doubt that the academic performance is one essential aspect to measure how good and capable a teacher is. After all, one of the most important tasks for a teacher is to teach students knowledge. A teacher can never be considered good if he fails to teach the hard-working students about real knowledge. Some scholars in universities are very knowledgeable and talented, even with some academic achievements in their fields. But sometimes, you may find they do not really prepare their teaching projects. Sometimes, their careless work makes the students confused due to his bad performance of lectures, or presenting the notes either too simple or too chaotic. Due to such disappointing performance, the students may fail to learn knowledge what they are expected to gain. For this sort of teachers, their salaries about teaching issue should be cut off since the poor academic performance of the students is caused by the teachers' dereliction of duty.


However, we should also view that the academic performance of the students is related to many issues, instead of the teachers' performance only. Therefore, it is unfair to judge how capable a teacher is and how much payment he should gain only based on the academic performance of students. In fact, the difficulty of a subject and the learning period of it can influence the learning performance directly. How much a student devotes his efforts on this subject also makes effects. Sometimes, you may detect that a teacher really pays a lot of efforts on teaching, making his notes and lectures perfectly good and logical for efficient learning, and trying to solve each student's questions. But there is still no guarantee of a general good performance of the students. From this point, it seems unreasonable to make judgment about the salaries a teacher deserves only based on the academic grades the students get.


Moreover, except teaching students the textbooks knowledge and develop their learning ability, many other essential features should a teacher obtain for a good teaching performance. A good teacher is expected to be moral and gentle, to bear a fair mind and love his students. After all, students will learn from their teachers more than knowledge in the book, but some lessons about how to behave. For the education of the young children, the academic knowledge is simple and basic to teach. Given a much long time every young student spends with their teachers at school, it seems much important for a teacher to take care of his/her students, to love them, and help them develop a good and healthy character instead of merely teaching the academic lessons. These aspects of abilities should also be counted into the salary accounting issue for a teacher’s job.


In sum, many aspects of abilities will affect the teaching performance of a teacher and all of them should be taken into consideration for the judgment about how much salaries a teacher should obtain. Academic performance of the students is definitely one of the issues, but it is not enough to tell how capable and responsible a teacher really is, and the comprehensive performance of a teacher--love, care, the character, and so forth--should be valued as well.


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ppguo

我现在有个培训，等下来拍你。你写的我都拍，呵呵。

ppguo

赞一下，尤其是第一段。
我还想到一些，
如果只按成绩来evaluate 老师，有可能有一个后果是老师只关注学生的成绩，忽略了学生其它方面的发展。毕竟不是每个学生都必须成绩好，发现他们的特长并加以引导，才能帮助学生以后成功。

冷月钟笛

嗯 有道理~ 这一点特别好啊！最近就得从写作转移到提纲了，很多题目很有意思，需要思考交流啊~

冷月钟笛

辛苦ppguo啦!

ericwilliam

I really envy of your writing and critical abilities.

ppguo

那就多从冷月这儿偷些好料吧。

冷月钟笛

见笑啦~ 多交流多进步啊~

冷月钟笛

我还是怀念大剑犀利的文字~ 我的和他一比，就逊色一筹啦~

ppguo

你们各有所长啊。