Thursday 8 October 2015

Good teachers set challenging tasks for their students

TOEFL Essay 17 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

 

Good teachers set challenging tasks for their students.


Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Model Answer:
A teacher is considered as the builder of a nation. The students whom he is teaching will be the future leaders. Thereby, the teaching method should be rock solid so that the students could survive in all the situations when they are grown up.

When a teacher teaches lessons, s/ he tries to make the lessons interesting to the pupils and sometimes the lessons are made challenging too. Actually, the lessons are made challenging based on some concrete grounds. The first and foremost cause is to make the students stronger over different issues they are experiencing. It is also helpful for them to survive in future. It is to be remembered that teaching is not limited only to reading textbooks or appearing on written examinations only. The range is vast and requires a special type of skill to spread the knowledge. The teachers are trained in ways to spread the knowledge needed for the students to be self-sufficient in their future days. Aiming to a better future, the teaching tasks are set in a challenging mode.

Teachers always want that their students to do better both in classes and out of the class environment. If the teachings are limited to books, the education will remain incomplete and thus the students will not be able to battle the harsh reality. Rather than reading aloud the theories in class, at times some of the teachers try to apply the theories in real life situation to analyze the real-life impacts on the students. When the theories are applied, students feel a sort of challenge.

Some of the students could overcome the challenges while most of them fail as they do not have the right intention or ability to adjust with the theories applied. Then the teachers set the challenges again for the failing students so that they could cope with the challenges. For instance, a science teacher may ask a student to bring a homework over any specific scientific issue that has been found in theories of the books. Usually, such home works are termed as projects.

When the student is asked to bring the project, the task becomes challenging for him/ her. To perform the project, the student may need to go to a specific shop selling the required scientific tools or chemicals to get the things required to complete the project. When the student will go shopping, it will help him/ her to get some real life skills. They will have the options to get familiar with the things which were unknown during the project completion. Moreover, they need to adopt several attempts to complete the project. Undoubtedly in the first chance, they will not be able to complete the project perfectly. They need to practice it several times and then the project will be done by the third of fourth chance. So, it is helping them to get familiar with the theories they go through the books they are assigned with. If the teacher did not ask to make the theory into a real life application, the theory would have remained theory to them for their lifetime.

Further, a sports teacher may ask a student to run for some moments or to perform some sort of exercise that has been taught in class. The task may appear challenging to the student, but if s/ he could perform the exercise, it will be helpful for them in the long run.

It appears that good teachers are the best friends of the students. The teachers always try to make the bookish things familiar to the students so that they could reap benefits from the theories in their real life.

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