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Issue30. 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.
According to the statement, the speaker asserts that teachers' salaries should be rooted in their students' academic performance. I agree with him to some extent. However, other necessary aspects should also be considered for a general consequence.
Admittedly, there is no doubt that the academic performance is one crucial aspect to measure how good and capable a teacher is. After all, one of the most essential tasks for a teacher is to teach students knowledge. A teacher can never be considered good if he fails to teach students the real knowledge. Given some professors in my college, their tasks are not only to teach students knowledge but also do several researches on their fields. Sometimes, they excessively focus on their researches resulting in the time of preparing their teaching projects limited. Thus, their teaching qualities are not good which makes students confounded on account of their bad performance of lectures leading to the failure of understanding the knowledge. This may make the students gain a bad academic performance. For this kind of teachers, their salaries about teaching should be cut off since the poor academic performance of the students which is caused by the teachers’ dereliction of duty.
However, we should also observe that students’ academic performance is related to other aspects, instead of the teaching performance of a teacher only. Thus, it is unfair to judge how competent a teacher is and how much payment a teacher should obtain only rooted in the academic performance of students. Consider, for instance, my cousin who teaches Chinese in a primary school makes a great deal of efforts on teaching, preparing her teaching projects sufficiently, making her notes and lectures excellent and flawless, exerting her best to explain words, sentences and passages clearly and logically, trying to solve questions that students ask. But her efforts and performance does not guarantee her students to gain a good academic performance. In fact, some of her students who are absent- mindedly in class do not devote their efforts on this subject resulting in a bad academic performance. In this circumstance, should my cousin be regarded as a poor capable teacher and do not gain a reasonable salary? In this light, it is unreasonable to judge the ability of a teacher and decide the payment of him/her only based on the academic performance of students.
To sum up, other aspects will influence the teaching performance of teachers and these should also be taken into account for judging how much salary a teacher ought to gain. Admittedly, academic performance of students is an essential aspect, but it is not enough to evaluate how competent a teacher really is.
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