45) 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.
Since there are not only students who are good at studying academics, teaching to children seems difficult to work well. However, except for such an aspect of learning, a connection between teachers and students have something important that is explained beyond words. So that such an idea of the statement should be reconsidered. I am going to describe one of experience of mine and the reason for opposing the statement.
I had never seen an ideal teacher through my school days. As a student intending to do a whole thing by myself, I often neglected or refused my teachers not only due to my saucy personality at that time, but due to the matter of teachers themselves for sure. When I graduated from high school, I found a book on my father's bookshelves. It was authored by Shoichi Watanabe, who is one of the eminent English grammar researcher in Japan and a former professor of Jochi University, and I happened to read his biography. In the style of colloquial words, this book was written to send students messages which is followed by his experience. Its content was so heart-tugging that I felt to have my mind changed thoroughly and end up making decision to go the future path.
What is different from other teachers is definitely his viewpoint as a teacher. Unlike those who take an exam's score seriously, he grabbed the truly meaning of one's life in his way and explain it again and again as if he was in front of readers. I thought that his way of thinking seemed to answer my question that had simmered beneath the surface. He showed me what a teacher is supposed to be.
Surely, it is necessary for teachers to improve a score of their students in order to make a living as a teacher rather than merely to take care of their academic grade. Most school will evaluate teachers according to the quality of teaching. However, student come to study on their own, let alone high school student. What is desperately needed for a teacher is to teach what is hard to know for students just about their coming future. Teachers should give students what is not written in a reference book as a senior.
For the reason outlined above, I do not square with the statement, and teachers should not be assessed by the average score of their class, but by their quality required to spend a long time with their students.