Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Teachers should be paid according to how much their students learn. Give specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
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I don’t agree to the logic of paying teachers in proportion to their students learning. It would be unfair to do so. I shall elaborate on my view point in this essay.
First of all, a student’s or learners self confidence and access to information is very necessary. Self-confidence is important to the students in order for them to move forward in work or further study. Many face major barriers such as may be cultural issues, poverty, racism, and poor English skills. This would mostly lead to an internalization of low self-esteem. In addition, learning disabilities and social and emotional problems at home are often not recognized in school. This cause many individuals to lose interest in learning, lower self esteem, turn their feelings inward and not participate or to leave school and give up on learning. For these matters it is unfair to penalize teachers and cut their remuneration.
For example Lawyers are never paid on the basis of winning the case or in proportion to the compensation amount granted by judiciary in judicial cases. Similarly doctors are not paid according to extent of wellbeing of a patient. Similarly in the cases of heart and brain surgeries, doctors are not paid based on survival of the patient. Identically paying in proportion to the students learning cannot be enforced upon teachers. Enforcement of this kind of policy may do more harm than good because the teacher community may be agonized and antagonized thereby spoiling the interest of students and parents.
In nutshell, if some shortcomings on part of teachers are noticed, those can be well taken care by giving them exposures to training programs of “Faculty Development”. Nevertheless payment in proportion to students learning shall not be fair and right.
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