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Nowadays, the salary level of teachers has aroused a heated discussion in the society. Many teachers consider that their salary is lower compared with other professions, and they advocate the raise in salary to the level that could be compared with doctors, lawyers or even business leaders. As far as I am concerned, though improving the overall payment level of the teachers has certain benefits, whether to raise the salary should be considered more comprehensively.
Admittedly, giving teachers’ a comparable salary to doctors, lawyers or even business leaders might serve as an effective tool to motivate teachers. Being given more money, teachers might feel obliged to teach students well. In this case, they might treat students with more patience and respond to their questions more carefully. Also, Giving teachers enough money would relieve their financial burdens, which could keep teachers more concentrated on teaching and improve the overall academic levels. However, on balance, to raise the salary of teachers for the purpose of improving teaching performance might be ineffective because students’ willingness to learn stays the same. This ineffectiveness would cause the rise a waste of money. In this way, the salary of teachers should be evaluated more flexibly.
To begin with, whether to raise the salary depends on the contribution teachers have made to the school. In other words, those who have played positive roles in promoting the school deserve a higher salary. For example, Mr. Owen Smith, a teacher in Mountain Ridge High school in Southern California, always organizes school students some social activities with residents in the community. Sometimes, they would play a football game with parents in the neighborhood; sometimes, they would hold a forum regarding how to deal with generation gaps between parents and adolescents; sometimes, they would even hold lectures for parents on how to help children crack SAT so that students could apply for a better college. Thanks to these social activities held by Mr. Owen Smith, Mountain Ridge’s reputation in town is widespread, and since most parents are familiar with how the school runs, they are more willing to send their children to the school. In this case, the school should pay Mr. Owen Smith higher salaries for attracting more students to school.
In addition, whether to raise the salary also depends on the role teachers have played in improving students’ academic performance. That is to say, if a teachers could not bring his students helpful guidance in schoolwork, he should not be high paid. According to a survey conducted on Sina Weibo, after polling some headteachers in Beijing, most of them claim that they suffered from a dilemma that teachers’ salary keeps rising every year while the average score students achieve in College Entrance Exam has not improved comparably. The original purpose for raising the salary is to give teachers more incentives in teaching students, but what turns out to be is that teachers, with more money, spend more time on their private life, instead of work. Teachers would choose to travel out of town, instead of helping students after class, which leads to a relative drop in academic performance for students. Under this circumstance, schools might stop providing teachers with high salaries indiscriminately and offer bonus to those who are able to help students achieve satisfactory results in exams.
To sum up, improving the salary of teachers seems to bring benefits to schools, but to make the money a better use, more specific thoughts should be given on how to improve it. If a teacher is able to help the school build reputation or help students improve academic performance, the improving salary is a must. Otherwise, the increasing salary might be counter-productive.
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如今,教師的工資水平在社會上引起了激烈的討論。許多教師認爲他們的薪水較低與其他職業相比,和他們提倡提高工資水平,可以與醫生相比,律師甚至商業領袖。就我而言,儘管改善教師的總體支付水平有一定的好處,是否提高工資應該考慮更全面。
誠然,給教師一個可比工資醫生、律師或商界領袖作爲一種有效的工具來激勵教師。得到更多的錢,老師可能會覺得有義務教學生。在這種情況下,他們可能會對學生有更多的耐心和更仔細地回答他們的'問題。同時,給予教師足夠的錢會減輕他們的經濟負擔,可以讓教師更集中在教學和提高整體學術水平。然而,總的來說,提高教師的工資提高教學績效的目的可能是無效的,因爲學生的學習意願保持不變。這種無效率會導致浪費金錢。通過這種方式,教師的薪水應該評估更靈活。
首先,是否提高工資取決於教師對學校的貢獻。換句話說,那些扮演積極的角色在促進學校應該得到更高的薪水。例如,歐文·史密斯先生,一個老師在山脊高中在南加州,經常組織學生一些社交活動的居民社區。有時,他們會與父母在附近玩足球遊戲;有時候,他們會舉辦一個論壇關於如何處理父母和青少年之間的代溝;有時,他們甚至會爲父母舉辦講座關於如何幫助孩子裂紋坐,這樣學生可以申請一個更好的大學。由於這些社會活動所持有的歐文·史密斯先生,山脊的聲譽在城裏是普遍的,因爲大多數父母都熟悉學校如何運行時,他們更願意送他們的孩子去學校。在這種情況下,學校應史密斯歐文更高的薪水來吸引更多的學生去學校。
此外,是否提高工資還取決於教師角色在提高學生的學業成績。也就是說,如果一個老師不能帶他的學生有益指導作業,他應該不高。在新浪微博上進行的一項調查顯示,在輪詢一些中學校長在北京,他們中的大多數人聲稱他們遭受困境,教師工資每年持續上漲,平均分數學生在大學聯考沒有實現相對提高。提高工資的最初目的是教學生給教師更多的激勵,但原來是老師,有更多的錢,花更多的時間在他們的私人生活,而不是工作。老師會選擇離開城鎮,而不是幫助學生下課後,導致對學生學業成績相對下降。在這種情況下,學校可能會停止爲教師提供高工資不加選擇地和提供獎金給那些能夠幫助學生在考試中取得令人滿意的成果。
總之,改善教師的工資似乎造福學校,而是使錢更好的使用,更具體的想法應該如何改進它。如果一個老師能夠幫助學校建立聲譽或幫助學生提高學習成績,提高工資是必須的。否則,增加工資可能會適得其反。
