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发表于 2004-11-13 03:44:14
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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.
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It is important for the colleges and universities to maintain a high quality of instruction. But in order to achieve a higher quality, is it necessary for all faculty to work in some non-academic profession relevant to the courses they teach? No, it’s not. It may be of some help, but it’s not always a practical or feasible requirement.
Having some relevant working experience is good for some college teachers of some application subjects. In those application subjects such as accounting, business administration, computer programming and so on, the students are mainly prepared for entering certain non-academic professions. Thus, the teachers are expected to give the most up-to-date knowledge to them, which will help them to become a technologically competent staff as soon as possible. If the teachers already had some direct experience from the relevant real-world, they will know how to meet the need in their class. Otherwise, they may cling to some out-of-date knowledge which has no use at all. In this sense, the working experience helps to improve the quality of college instruction.
However, without the working experience in relevant non-academic world, the teachers can equally improve their quality of instruction.
On the one hand, to keep the content of the courses to be the most practical and most up-to-date, instead of entering the profession, one can employ many other ways including reading academic reports and analysis, doing field research, holding interviews with the professionals etc. These ways are usually more efficient than becoming a professional oneself, since one can have a broad view of the subject from more perspectives within a comparatively shorter period of time. While entering the profession means you have to spend a lot of time fulfilling the tasks assigned to you before you have time or chance to learn more toward the essence.
On the other hand, for those courses that have no problem with the contents, it’s obvious that improving the teaching methods and teaching skills is the correct way to improve the quality of instruction instead of requiring teachers to enter non-academic professions. Leading interactive classes instead of giving a lecture all by oneself, applying multi-media devices instead of using only a blackboard and a white chalk, a teacher is bound to enormously improve his teaching quality.
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Furthermore, besides application subjects, there are also many basic subjects at colleges and universities, such a mathematics, theoretical physics and so on. They go from theories to theories, which are not directly applied in our societies. In these subjects, how is it possible for the teachers to enter a relevant profession outside of academic world? And what’s the need for them to do so?
In one word, there is no direct connection between improving the quality of instruction at college and the faculty working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach, and it should not be required for all faculty to do so. |
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