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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: 467 (实际多了50多词) TIME: 00:55:00 (实际多用了10分钟 一共65分钟) DATE: 2009-8-2 15:31:14
How can we improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level remains to be a crucial problem of our society. In my view,it is reasonable for the author to suggest all faculty spend time working in professions relevant to the courses they teach, however, this advocation should not be universally appiled. Nevertheless, it is not the only way to solve the problem.
Admittedly, it is beneficient for instructors and professors to work outside college and university in order to improve their teaching. For the reason that
working out side gives them direct experiences other than knowledge from books and their teachers. Also, as a response to the rapid changing world,
they must open themselves to the new development and discoveries of their
professions, only by this process of renewing can they really give their students fresh knowledge concerning their time instead of banal dogmas. The above comments applies best to professors in media, arts and global politics, which never stopped changing. Working outside gives them a acess
to current trends, so they can teach something new.
However, it may not be advisable for all faculty, whatever their professions
are like, to work outside to get the newly information, in specific cases it would even diminish teaching quality. Since some professions are not directly relevant to our daily life, many of them develops just in colleges. These professions, like pure mathematics, mechanics and philosophy, share one thing in common: they are theoratical. Thus there is no job better than a college professor to improve themselves. Also, some professions have been almot unchanged during a long period of time, making the suggestion invalid as well. For example, professors in ancient language should be better to sink into books than to seek for a job outside. What's more, realizing that working outside occupies much time and energy, it is wise to weigh its benifits together with costs, after which perhaps we'll find it's better for professors to spend their time in research, or in a better concern about students than deviating frome their own job into another.
In addition, to achieve the improvement of quality of instruction, students as
a crucial role must be emphasized. Faculty who whats to make their instruction more welcome and effective ought to work on their communication skills and teaching abilities. Most of the time it is not how much knowledge one has but how well can he convey the knowledge he has to students that matters. For example, a physics teacher who uses excellent experiments to illustrate his ideas is certainly more welcome than the other one who merely sticks to the textbook all the time. In a word, teaching skills has the same, if not more, importance as knowledge in class.
In short, working outside to gain moreknowledge is a good way for college and university faculty to make their lessons better. But its expense should be considered carefully by taking other factors into accout. After all, quality of education would be improved only when instructors as well as students are all
doing their jobs and they have a good chemistry. |
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