IELTS Writing Topic:
Teaching Capabilities
Canada, January 2012
>Some people say that to become a teacher one should acquire sufficient training, while others say that teaching capabilities can be developed with experience. Discuss b oth views and give your opinion.
Example Essay
Jeenn Lee Hsieh
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Teaching capabilities can be developed with experience, therefore it is not essential to acquire sufficient to become a teacher. A teacher preparation program is designed to introduce a set of widely shared methods, better considered to be only as useful as a driver's manual of traffic regulations because a teacher's certificate does not guarantee a good teacher no more than a driver's license can guarantee a good driver. Training being an advantage, excellent teachers really are born rather than made.
Not all people are gifted with natural talents to help students learn , and it is exactly why some people would recommend teacher preparation programs. If you want to play the role of a teacher in the educational theater, you had better learn something about the dramatic art of teaching. Professional training may at least make a certified teacher, if you think that three-fourths of good teaching may be pure theater. And think, too, what sense does it make wasting a good deal of money if such training is not linked to specific purposes? It is not without practical causes that, in some countries, teachers' colleges have long been established as a policy to prepare qualified educators, with obvious successes. Thus, to underline the importance of training experience is to ensure that graduates are licensed to act as teachers after acquiring enough teaching capabilities.
There are reasons to believe that best teachers are born. As if by accident of birth, good teaching skills are largely associated with an innate passion which is capable of inspiring children to learn at their full potential and of bringing even the most reticent student to some level of understanding and appreciation of the subject at hand. Without the need to go through a pre-job training, gifted teachers are able to turn each classroom session into a wonderful experience. So, it is more like developing new teaching experience each day than recalling teaching methods copied from standardized training programs. Besides, experience developed in this manner makes teaching a natural art because born teachers are also gifted actors and actresses on the stage of the educational theater. Due mainly to a difference in the way experience is developed, the result not only can help teachers desire to teach, but also students desire to learn.
Made or born, an extraordinary teacher is one with good teaching capabilities. Much as a driving school can make a driver anyway, a training plan can make a teacher. And like driving skills, good teaching capabilities can be developed with experience, independent of formal training.