Government
now has enough funds to invest on ONE for developing young children’s
education. Choose one and explain details and examples.
-Hiring
more teachers in each class so that fewer students take a class
-Establishing
more preschools for children who are from three to four years old
-Training
teachers to learn new methods of teaching students
Over the past few decades, according to the
change of society, the government has tried many ways to develop
children’s education. So, it has been argued which among hiring more teachers,
establishing more preschools, and training teachers to learn new methods should
be most invested on for the sake of children’s education. Some might argue that
hiring more teachers or establishing more preschools would be the most
effective ways, while others might not think so. However, I am deeply convinced
that the government should invest on training teachers to learn new methods in
order to develop young children’s education. Actually, I have a couple of
reasons that support my idea and would like to develop them in the next
following paragraphs below.
First of all, the government has to invest
funds on teaching teachers new methods because they must teach different types
of young children who each have different backgrounds. Children come from
different corners of the country. Each child has different family backgrounds,
different preferences, different interests
or different
weaknesses. In order to teach these young kids, teachers must hold a variety of
new methods in their hands. Although some people might say that hiring more
teachers in each class would be most beneficial to young students’ education
because each teacher can individually focus on fewer children, making teachers responsible
for fewer kids won’t improve their education without any kind of plan or
method. To give an example of this, I watched a documentary about a young woman
who changed the lives of children a long time ago. Many centuries before,
teachers had no special
method in teaching children. Children were to sit on desks that were all facing
the board. They were to be punished whenever they did not raise their hands,
made a mess or even when they spoke too loudly. However, at the end of the
year, only a few
students would barely have the ability to read, which means that most
of them learned nothing in school.
This kind of education went on for centuries. One woman in the late 19th
century was going to be a teacher and wanted to change this. She made a
classroom of her own, which had very light chairs that could be moved around,
toys in boxes, and decorations on ceilings. She taught children with new methods.
She was very nice to them, enjoyed students speaking out without raising their
hands, and wanted everyone to hunger for more education. To this day, that
method is being used in thousands of preschools, thousands of nurseries, and
even many of handicap children schools. If the government just had chosen to
decrease the number of students for each class and increase the number of
teachers without new teaching methods, nothing would’ve changed. Schools that
exist today are not having enough method Therefore, I strongly think that training
teachers to learn new methods of teaching students is the best way to improve
children’s education.
Moreover, the government should invest on teaching
teachers new ways and methods to teach young students because education is
always evolving and becoming more specific. Over the past years, children
education has changed its’ requirements, and what children really need is becoming
more specific and complex every day ceaselessly. For instance, in the past, students just
came to school, learned the basics and went home. Today, young students are
having multifarious programs that connect them
with their parents, their friends, their interests, or their creativities. This
explains that their requirements are changing and becoming more specific and elaborate.
Although some people might say that establishing more preschools for children
who are from three to four years old would be the best way to make more
children meet with better education, it would be meaningless to make more
preschools that have no specifically trained teachers who lead advanced educational
programs. For example, a research was conducted by KSC (Korean Statistical
Center of Korea). It shows two types of schools. The first type is schools that
have multiple programs and teachers who are trained every three years. The
other type is schools with a few original programs and teachers who don’t get
trained. The data shows that the students who went to the first school were more
confident in learning and being creative, while students who went to the other
school had no strong interest in learning at all. According to the data, the
parents of the students who went to the first type of schools claimed that the
school’s teachers were not only intelligent but also very modern in education. The
parents also explained that they felt relieved because their students were
being taught in developing teaching methods that matched along with constantly
evolving education. Therefore, I think that training teachers is more important
than anything else because teachers are the pillars of young student’s
education.