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发表于 2010-4-26 15:32:32
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TOPIC: ISSUE50 - "In order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level, all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach."
WORDS: 564 TIME: 01:00:00 DATE: 2010-4-26 14:42:38
practical: journalism, business, technology-->career suggestion, intern offers, benefit students.
update knowledge, keep up with the cutting edge research---->textbook lags behind for the print system and organization consideration; experience supplement.
teaching method: brain storm, field work, group discussion rather than rough and general presentation or assignment.
No one could deny the principal competiveness of a college and university is high quality instruction and education. The more excellent and practical instruction provided, the more students will be attracted and benefited from it, then the higher reputation of a college may achieve. Thus, I agree with the assertion that all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach in order to improve the quality of instruction, which clearly presented through the content of courses, the teaching methods and suggestion on students' career.
As we live in a world where knowledge is accumulating by multiplying and increasingly specialized, the knowledge taught in a college or university is inevitably out of date. Take the textbooks for example. Studies have shown that the content in textbooks lag behind the reality development as long as 5 years on average, some "classical" textbooks like Biology Science Introduction or Computer Science General printed decades ago still in use in some universities. Such knowledge is not only qualified to attract students' interests, but also useless and occupy students a lot of time. Therefore, if professors and other faculty recognize such server problems, their practical experience can work as supplement. They can bring in the cutting edge research application, which can lead students to combine the knowledge and extent their horizon. Without spending time working outside the academic world in professions relevant the courses, the faculty cannot sufficiently supplement the shortage of knowledge textbooks.
Moreover, accompanying with the traditional knowledge, old teaching methods is another deficiency of improvement of instruction quality. When faculty do some practical jobs relevant their teaching areas, they can utilize some new teaching tricks to motivate students. For example, more and more business courses are taught through brain storm, for professors adapting it from the effective decision making process in modern companies. Instead of old teaching methods, such as rough presentation, paper assignment, and professor-oriented teaching, new ways emphasize teamwork and student-oriented, which are the requirements to be qualified employees. So faculty should take part in the real relevant jobs in order to update the teaching methods.
In addition, it is undeniable that the main purpose of people attending college or university is to get a descent job, if their teachers work in the fields they want to enter, they not only can get systematical career direction but also have easy access to get internship opportunities which will benefit them greatly.University sometimes is compared with "Ivory Tower", for the trained students hardly fulfill the demands of employers. Students lack proper identification of themselves and necessary preparation for their career goal. For example, a Journalism student who would like to be a correspondence are not capable to use camera and photo processing software which are not provided in his or her courses. If his or her teacher work as a reporter, or have experience of that he can make better preparation and have a clear career path. Also, teachers with practical interpersonal relationship can help their students to get latest internship opportunities.
All faculty should be required to work outside, however, seems a little too strict for some abstract subjects, typically philosophy and mathematics. For faculty on such kinds of subjects, theoretical advancement and academic outcome should weigh upon practical experience. In a word, generally all faculty working on real relevant jobs do improve the instruction level of a college and university. |
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