200602232 Mijin Yi, p. 67 Wonderful Teacher

Wonderful Teacher

 

 

Before starting my writing, I would like to ask you a question: what you wanted to become when your childhood? If you are a girl, I am sure that you have dreamt of being a teacher at least for some periods. So did I. As I was the person who kept this dream for long time than any of us, until my high school, more exactly just before getting my SAT result which discouraged me to achieve such my long-lasting dream, the word 'teacher' seems to mean more special to me than others. I met, as others did, many teachers from my kindergarten to my university, by now, and I had different images from each of them. And since I had been dreaming of being teacher, I even tried to observe them very carefully and 'analyze' their attitudes for myself who would be in the future a good teacher. So, now, let me talk about how a wonderful teacher is according to me.

 

  First of all, I think that a wonderful teacher has to be an utterly double-faced person. one face is the one as a good friend for his or her students and the other as a strict teacher itself. It could be slightly changed depending on students' grade, but a teacher usually faces various situations, students with different personality and they need to manage these things differently. For example, one of my teachers in my high school was completely double-faced; he would pin the student's ears back for students' misdeed while he was usually very kind and considerate to us. One day, there was a quite serious argument between two students. The teacher punished them pretty ruthlessly. After their punishment, he called them to let them know what was wrong very kindly. After this event, there was no problem any more in the class and those students never hated him, but on the contrary, they admired more him as a good teacher. It was always same to others. Secondly, it is necessary to keep young to understand students who are in a different generation from yours. It is said that big consideration of students and effort to listen to them, both of them are one of the most necessary to be a good teacher. These are based on understanding about their different attitudes and ways of thinking. Teachers, therefore, need to find reasons which get them in trouble with their disciplines and solve the problem to the students' level of thinking. This fact is proven by a research about best teachers some Korean students had participated in and which was released a couple of years ago; most of them confirmed that a teacher who tries to listen carefully to them and to seem younger as their real age was their best teacher. And, here is another example: several years ago, I came upon a TV program which was saying about most popular teacher of a middle school: according to his school students, we would watch popular TV soap drama series, listen to Korean pop music. And, in the video, the teacher, who was in the mid forties like some parents of his students, was even wearing the school uniform as all students were. For his uniform wearing, students felt closer with him and got to become more open to him. In the class, he did his lesson having been prepared to his students' level, for example, using names of actual popular young stars in order to explain things more easily. In a result, there were some students who had got improved exam grade compared to their previous one. 

 

  It is said in Korea that education is our future. That means to give our children good education is to have brighter society in the future since they would do their best to get better my country. This good education is in a part from school, that is, from teachers. They, therefore, do very important roles in society both in the present and in the future. For this reason, teachers need to be conscious of such importance of their career and do their best to teach their students. And, others including students have to have more respect on them. If these two things work well at the same time, each individual and the society will be happy.