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发表于 2006-2-25 23:04:35 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

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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."

翻译：
为了改善大学的教学质量，所有的教员都应该被要求花一定时间到学术领域以外去参加和他们所教科目相关的工作。

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提纲
（1）反对观点。
（2）有些学科发展很快，确实需要多了解外面的发展，但也不一定非要让教员出去工作，因为还有很多渠道的，比如参加学术讨论会议、通过网络了解最新动态等等。
（3）此外，有些学科，比如基础数学、物理、外语，这些都不会有太大变化，因此更不需要必须花时间去外面工作。
（4）这样做确实有些好处，但会使教员分心，有可能面外的工作占用很多精力，而忽略了教学任务，这样反而会降低教学质量。

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正文
I agree that to require teachers to go out of the school and take some jobs relevant to the courses they teach do have some benefits, however, I do not think such requirement is suitable for all faculty and all courses.

Admittedly, for some popular courses, such as computer science, communication, economy, and the like, to learn about the newest information is very important, but to work outside the academic world is not the only efficient way. One of the most vital task for college or university is to teach the advanced knowledge and technology to students and make them prepared for the future jobs, so the teachers should know what kinds of knowledge are needed in the companies, otherwise, their teaching contents maybe not coincide with the needs. Take China as an example, in the past, college educations often consider little of the society's need. The direct result is when students enter the working companies, they will find what they learned at school almost has no relation with their jobs and they have to study again. Fortunately, in recent years, many colleges have learned the problems and began to ask the teachers to take the society's needs into accounts when they arrange the teaching plans. Then how can teachers know the society's needs? The speaker thinks schools should require teachers to work at the companies, but I do not think it is the only way. In fact, with the rapid development of media, there are many methods to attain the newest information and learn about the society. For example, teachers can take part in academic councils to communicate each other; they can also learn the outside world through newspaper, magazine, Internet, and etc.

On contrary, for some basic courses, such as math, physics, chemistry, etc, they are not changed frequently and mainly depend on the laboratorial researches, and to work outside is not necessary. The contents of such courses are always relatively const except there are some new findings and the findings mainly take place at research labs. Consequently, to ask teachers relevant to such courses to work outside maybe have little benefit for their teaching.

Finally, the jobs out of the school maybe distract much energy of teachers, which possibly decline the teaching qualities. On the one hand, the outside jobs are possible to occupy lots of time of the teachers, and make the teachers have less time to prepare for the teaching. On the other hand, many teachers may be reluctant to work outside and they only want to teach and research at school, so to force them to do that will have little effect.

To sum up, such requirement has both advantages and disadvantages, so it should be treated separately for different courses. Besides, the degree should be controlled well, that is, on the one hand, to try to benefit from the activities, on the other hand, not to disturb the normal teaching plans.

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