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48 Educators should teach facts only after their students have studied the ideas, trends, and concepts that help explain those facts.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
Teaching methods differ from place to place. One of these various methods, just as the statement mentions, is to teach students relevant background before they learn facts. As a student, who have been benefiting from such learning method, I will give several reasons in favor of such action although weakness also exist.
When we talk about teaching methods, we are inevitable to answer the question of what the goal of learning is. Indeed, we have gained a fair amount of knowledge till now, but is the knowledge itself the goal of learning? Definitely not! With the fast development of modern society and the explosion of knowledge, learning becomes a life-long process. What we have acquired during school years is too limited to apply to the real world. Beyond that, with time passing by, we will gradually forget what we have learned in school. Einstein once said that education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned. So, what will remain is the way to study besides your spiritual growth. So, for that question above, a proper answer will focus on the ability to learning, not knowledge itself.
As we study the ideas, trends, and concepts, we analyze how these relevant or not so relevant things together led to a conclusion. For example, when I studied the structure of DNA, I studied the history of this discovery. The man who first isolated it, famous experiments which push the study forward, this background not only lets me know how scientists gradually revealed the mask of DNA, but also reminds me of hard work and perseverance. In addition, a comprehensive understanding could bring about a long-term memory; because studies have found the more we read about one thing, the more chance will we remember it.
Though it seems to be a perfect teaching method, admittedly, it still have drawbacks. What if it is a completely new problem? What if there is no background to refer? Do these mean we should not to study these facts? From ancient times to present, with the development of society, various problems rise among us. Even in the modern technological world today, we find the problems are being increased, not decreased. For example, the space debris, which has been brought into attention recent years and still be a tough problem without good solutions; and globing warming, which also be a serious problem. Facing these new challenges that can not offer us much experience, teachers should not hold students back from learning facts. Maybe their creative ideas could offer help.
Compared with such huge benefit, its weakness seems unimportant. But in order to do it best, the statement may be better by removing the word "only". Teachers should teach relevant background before students learn facts, but everything is flexible; when it become impossible to do so, teaching facts first is not a bad idea. |
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