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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,教师的工资水平在社会上引起了激烈的讨论。许多教师认为他们的薪水较低与其他职业相比,和他们提倡提高工资水平,可以与医生相比,律师甚至商业领袖。就我而言,尽管改善教师的总体支付水平有一定的好处,是否提高工资应该考虑更全面。
诚然,给教师一个可比工资医生、律师或商界领袖作为一种有效的工具来激励教师。得到更多的钱,老师可能会觉得有义务教学生。在这种情况下,他们可能会对学生有更多的耐心和更仔细地回答他们的'问题。同时,给予教师足够的钱会减轻他们的经济负担,可以让教师更集中在教学和提高整体学术水平。然而,总的来说,提高教师的工资提高教学绩效的目的可能是无效的,因为学生的学习意愿保持不变。这种无效率会导致浪费金钱。通过这种方式,教师的薪水应该评估更灵活。
首先,是否提高工资取决于教师对学校的贡献。换句话说,那些扮演积极的角色在促进学校应该得到更高的薪水。例如,欧文·史密斯先生,一个老师在山脊高中在南加州,经常组织学生一些社交活动的居民社区。有时,他们会与父母在附近玩足球游戏;有时候,他们会举办一个论坛关于如何处理父母和青少年之间的代沟;有时,他们甚至会为父母举办讲座关于如何帮助孩子裂纹坐,这样学生可以申请一个更好的大学。由于这些社会活动所持有的欧文·史密斯先生,山脊的声誉在城里是普遍的,因为大多数父母都熟悉学校如何运行时,他们更愿意送他们的孩子去学校。在这种情况下,学校应史密斯欧文更高的薪水来吸引更多的学生去学校。
此外,是否提高工资还取决于教师角色在提高学生的学业成绩。也就是说,如果一个老师不能带他的学生有益指导作业,他应该不高。在新浪微博上进行的一项调查显示,在轮询一些中学校长在北京,他们中的大多数人声称他们遭受困境,教师工资每年持续上涨,平均分数学生在高考没有实现相对提高。提高工资的最初目的是教学生给教师更多的激励,但原来是老师,有更多的钱,花更多的时间在他们的私人生活,而不是工作。老师会选择离开城镇,而不是帮助学生下课后,导致对学生学业成绩相对下降。在这种情况下,学校可能会停止为教师提供高工资不加选择地和提供奖金给那些能够帮助学生在考试中取得令人满意的成果。
总之,改善教师的工资似乎造福学校,而是使钱更好的使用,更具体的想法应该如何改进它。如果一个老师能够帮助学校建立声誉或帮助学生提高学习成绩,提高工资是必须的。否则,增加工资可能会适得其反。
