prompt: Do you agree or disagree with the statement that teaching is harder than it was in the past?
Thanks in advance.
Today's society is much more diverse, complex, pluralistic and swiftly changeable than ever before,making every social member a sailor driving on the sea under complex weather condition. Thus, teachers play a more important role in leading teenagers to prepare for their future. Some people hold the view that teaching is more and more harder than it was in the past, while others provides counterarguments to it. As far as I am concerned, it is true that education is a more difficult process than before.
To begin with, what teachers need to teach is harder and more than before. To illustrate, with the rapid development in all the fields, the world's knowledge industry has witnessed unprecedented boom in recent years. Therefore, if a teacher wants to provide the latest results in a certain filed, he must introduce the process of development at first, and then exactly explain what is the critical point in the process, why it changes and even what will it turn into in the future. Obviously, it was much easier to do in the past, especially when it comes to time and amount. Researchers at China Academy of Social Science conducted a survey in 50 key high school in Shanghai. They drafted a list of questions centering on level of knowledge taught in school and asked teachers to fill out the questionnaire. Among the 6000 teachers who wrote out their answers, over
75 percent of them mentioned the harder knowledge and more amount preparation for lessons. Thus, we can see teachers in school now take more time and energy to prepare for their lessons, due to the developing process of knowledge.
In addition, it is a new challenge for teachers to teach their students in the current situation, not only because of the more personal students, but also because of the more sensitive parents. To be specific, children, who were thought possession to a family in the past because of the poor society, now are just family members. And then more and more families hold only one child. So both their parents and their grandparents care more about them. In other words, if children are hurt in school, their parents may think it is not their children but the teachers who will be to blame. Actually, it really do harm to teachers psychologically. On the other hand, the spoiled children always do something personally. Just as the common notion in psychological filed, a personal man usually create a mental acknowledge to others and satisfy himself materially and mentally. That means the only child even can lie to himself to continue his behavior without anxious feeling. For example, my neighbor Kimi, who never accomplishes his homework, once told me he would be a scientist, so it's unnecessary to learn all the easy thing in school. What's more, he thought others trying to persuade him to study were so stupid that they could not understand his great dream.
In conclusion, it is difficult and much knowledge, naughty students and even the surrounding situation that transform the problem of education into a mountain from a hill. So there is no doubt that we should give more attention to both the education and teachers, in order to establish a complete system. Teachers, students and even their parents are on duty.
Thanks in advance.
Today's society is much more diverse, complex, pluralistic and swiftly changeable than ever before,making every social member a sailor driving on the sea under complex weather condition. Thus, teachers play a more important role in leading teenagers to prepare for their future. Some people hold the view that teaching is more and more harder than it was in the past, while others provides counterarguments to it. As far as I am concerned, it is true that education is a more difficult process than before.
To begin with, what teachers need to teach is harder and more than before. To illustrate, with the rapid development in all the fields, the world's knowledge industry has witnessed unprecedented boom in recent years. Therefore, if a teacher wants to provide the latest results in a certain filed, he must introduce the process of development at first, and then exactly explain what is the critical point in the process, why it changes and even what will it turn into in the future. Obviously, it was much easier to do in the past, especially when it comes to time and amount. Researchers at China Academy of Social Science conducted a survey in 50 key high school in Shanghai. They drafted a list of questions centering on level of knowledge taught in school and asked teachers to fill out the questionnaire. Among the 6000 teachers who wrote out their answers, over
75 percent of them mentioned the harder knowledge and more amount preparation for lessons. Thus, we can see teachers in school now take more time and energy to prepare for their lessons, due to the developing process of knowledge.
In addition, it is a new challenge for teachers to teach their students in the current situation, not only because of the more personal students, but also because of the more sensitive parents. To be specific, children, who were thought possession to a family in the past because of the poor society, now are just family members. And then more and more families hold only one child. So both their parents and their grandparents care more about them. In other words, if children are hurt in school, their parents may think it is not their children but the teachers who will be to blame. Actually, it really do harm to teachers psychologically. On the other hand, the spoiled children always do something personally. Just as the common notion in psychological filed, a personal man usually create a mental acknowledge to others and satisfy himself materially and mentally. That means the only child even can lie to himself to continue his behavior without anxious feeling. For example, my neighbor Kimi, who never accomplishes his homework, once told me he would be a scientist, so it's unnecessary to learn all the easy thing in school. What's more, he thought others trying to persuade him to study were so stupid that they could not understand his great dream.
In conclusion, it is difficult and much knowledge, naughty students and even the surrounding situation that transform the problem of education into a mountain from a hill. So there is no doubt that we should give more attention to both the education and teachers, in order to establish a complete system. Teachers, students and even their parents are on duty.