Teachers

                Teachers get so undercut in the school education system. NO one wants to be a teacher, they don’t pay well at all and you need tons of experience to be called a good teacher. Our education system has put all the blame on how teachers don’t care, how students don’t care, and how everyone just hates school. I’ll agree that there are teachers who don’t care about teaching and just do it and there are students who don’t care either. There are good teachers and there are bad teachers.

                Now I have a lot of experience with teachers.   I’m coming to the end of my high school career and I’ve been around different types of teachers for 12 years now. From personal experience, the teacher is the most important part in what I get out of a class. The teacher is the most important part in how much I learn. If a teacher is always there when I need help, bombastic about what they are actually teaching, excited to teach, and love what they do, they are going to be a great teacher. I get so much out of a class when the teacher is enthusiastic, then I become enthusiastic. If they find cool ways to teach and have fun with their students it makes the classroom a fun and amazing place. Good teachers make me want to pursue the topic they are teaching, I could absolutely hate a subject but if I have a good teacher, I could learn so much and do so much and love the subject. Good teachers allow us, the students, to learn so much more.

                But of course, not all teachers are good teachers, there are the bad ones. The ones that don’t care about you, they just want the least work for themselves, the ones who show videos the whole time and read lessons from a script make learning boring. The ones who do the littlest work possible and just give their students busy work are the ones that hurt our education. From personal experience, I learn absolutely nothing with bad teachers. If a teacher doesn’t know what they’re doing, what they’re teaching, or how to even teach, then I don’t learn anything from their class. With some teachers I don’t even bother, I just look up video and use other tools to learn as much as I can in a subject. These bad teachers are the ones that make school boring and I feel like there are sometimes a lot more bad teachers out there than good ones.

                Good teachers influence what we learn. Good teachers make our schools better places to learn and teach us how to become a better person. Some bad apples can just ruin the whole experience. I feel like the main reason our education system is stuttering is because of teachers. I see so many teachers, who just don’t care about their jobs, but there are those few amazing teachers that make school a total blast and I learn so much. If we want education to compete with the rest of the world, we need to find good teachers. We look at countries like South Korea and Finland who are top in all categories, they pay their teachers, and they make teaching a lucrative job, like an engineer or a doctor. These countries will even go so far that they will recruit top teachers from other countries to come teach at their schools. We need to make teachers more valuable here, being a teacher isn’t really the best job, their pay is mediocre with few benefits. When teaching is more appealing, more and smarter people will want to go into teaching, leading to more of those good teachers.  

                We also need to make good teaching the standard and make the teaching scene competitive. Not just standardized tests, ask the students how they feel, have administration watch a few classes, really look into how teachers are teaching to get the best ones. Find those bad apples and get them out of teaching, teaching isn’t for everyone. Getting rid of the bad apples and finding the good apples will make the American education system soar. Students will love coming to school and teachers will love to teach and make their students fulfill their potential.