本帖最后由 annke 于 2010-5-9 14:15 编辑
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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: teachers should be paid according to how well their students perform.
Teachers, who play a crucial role in modern society, cultivate young generation, preserve culture and knowledge. No one could deny that they definitely make an extraordinary contribution to human society. However, how to judge their contribution, actually how to pay them has become a heated topic recently. Some people believe teachers should be paid according to their students performance considering that only by this way can teachers be encouraged to devote in teaching. In my opinion, it is hardly a fair way because numerous additional factors associated with students' performance.
First of all, students have different gifts, they come from different families and various places, so even they receive the same education of a same teacher, they probably perform distinguishingly on academy, even though a twins will inevitably differ between each other in learning. If teachers are required to be responsible for students performance, otherwise their salary would be affected. One outcome is teachers working hard to raise students' marks and ignore any other aspects, like mental development and character shape. Another possible serious consequence is that they incline to pray for luck, for they almost cannot choose smart students or students with potential to get high scores. In my opinion, both consequences are not we desire.
Secondly, there is no objective ways to measure to what extent, students can be regard as perform well. For example, if a student is good at painting and is prospective to be an excellent artist in the future, under an exam-oriented system he or she cannot be thought as good and won't increase the teachers' payment. So teachers will risk their salary to keep that student's art genius, which definitely is not our society's goal.
In my opinion, an complete and better system should be promoted to judge how much teachers will get.
Basic salary is a fair way to give all teachers the same status, and bonus added to inspire teachers become more efficient and effective, the icing on the cake,various performance measures should be included for that every students is different from each other. |