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Education is an efficient tool that exists not only in educational sector but also in corporate sectors as well. Universities, Schools & corporations hire teacher to educate their students or employees. High authorities or management work with teachers and his/her proficiency to decide the compensations. The prompt states that a teacher's salary should be solely contingent upon their students academic performance. In my opinion, I disagree with the statement because there is a little relationship between the students performance with teacher's calibre, though, there are many other factors(discussed in below paragraphs) which can help in deciding the teacher's calibre and compensation. To begin, the relationship between a teacher and a student is like 2 tyres of a cycle. It should not only be the teacher's responsibility to involve best practices for imparting maximum knowledge to students, but students should also be willing to travel along the ride and should have the ardency to gain as much knowledge as possible. If either of these tyres rupture, the cycle can't move. To illustrate, consider a "Data structures & Algorithms" professor in a university, who works assiduously, conducting the timely classes, providing notes, assignments, arranging practicals, taking tutorials and doubt sessions for the students through the semester, but if the students of his class are apathetic to teachers effort and take little to no use of the provisions, they will end up scoring bad in semester exams. Even if the teacher has been up to the mark, It is the students unattentiveness and laxity in academics responsible for the bad academic performance. In such a case, the student's academic performance doesn't qualify as the accurate metrics for the teacher's calibre and salary at all. The view that students academic performance shouldn't decide the teacher's calibre doesn't mean that students don't play any role in judging the teacher's calibre or compensation, rather students can play a major role here. For a teacher to successful at his/her role, the teacher should be affable and approachable. Students shouldn't feel formidable about their lack of knowledge or silly doubts, while approaching the teacher. Rather, teacher should maintain a healthy environment by encouraging students to ask even the most frivolous doubts. Universities or schools can make use of efficient contemporary tool i.e Feedback System. Students should be presented with a feedback forms quarterly(or at any other intervals) to rate the teacher based on different parameters like affability, knowledge of the topic, expressability, punctuality etc. Universities can make maximum use of such metrics while judging the teacher's performance and deciding compensation. Such a system would not only help authorities to judge the teachers but it would also provide an opportunity for the teacher to improve at their weaker aspects. There are numerous other metrics that can be utilized while deciding the teacher's compensation. At the time of hiring, university/school authorities or higher management conduct the interviews to judge the applicants knowledge and decide their compensation accordingly. As knowledge isn't static, it might be the case that a teacher had less knowledge at the time of hiring but with time the teacher had worked and improved which deserves a better compensation. In such cases, universities or schools can conduct the timely tests to judge their performance and base the compensation of teacher on that. High authorities and management can also make use of evidences like citation, publications, books written by a teacher while deciding upon the teacher's salary. Evidently, a teacher with more renowned publication or citation deserves better acknowledgement and compensation than rest. In essence, from the above mentioned views, it seems correct to say that student's academic performance shouldn't be the metrics to judge the teacher's calibre and decide the compensations. Instead, there are many other tools like citation, publications, feedback systems which ease out the job in deciding the compensation for the teachers.

Prompt: A teacher’s ability to relate well with students is more important than excellent knowledge of the subject being taught. The issue at hand is that a teacher’s ability to relate to students is more important than her knowledge with the subject she is teaching. The is a complex issue which allows the writer to take a nuanced stand as teacher in a primary or high school must have a different set of characteristics compared to the teachers in colleges. But under most circumstances the ability of the teacher to understand the needs of her students and teach accordingly is much more important than the knowledge she possesses in the subject that she is teaching. A teacher working in a primary or high school will have students of different capabilities which will include quick learners as well really slow learners. A teacher’s role in a school is to make all the students understand the concepts being taught in the lectures which is more important than having a vast knowledge in a subject. The sound knowledge of a teacher in a particular subject she is teaching does not always translate to efficient teaching of that subject. A teacher who might not have in depth knowledge in a particular subject might be able to teach the concepts in a manner that all the students in a class can understand than the a teacher who has great knowledge in a subject but is unable to deliver the concepts to the students efficiently leaving the students in the lurch. When an Economics teacher teaches the concepts of fundamental theory of economics to high school students she must know what her students want to learn from this topic, do the students have a basic knowledge of the topic or not. Since the topic is being taught in a high school it is important to note that all the students might really have a fair knowledge of the subject. Hence the teacher must teach to cover the “Lowest common denominator”, that is she must teach in way that even the most dull student in the class is able to understand the subject that is being taught. If the teacher teaches in a manner that only the bright students understand then the overall performance of the students in the exams will be affected. The average or below average students might score good marks or might even fail in the subject due to the lack of undestanding. A teacher, thus must understand the needs of the each student in the class in teach the concepts accordingly in order to make sure that all the students have understood the concepts that were taught. In few other cases, a subject such environmental science might be a boring subject to listen to for most of the students. A teacher in such cases can use audio-visual presentations so the students enjoy the lecture and understand the concepts rather feeling bored in listening to lectures. An academic or an researcher who is working in a college might have significant knowledge in a subject but when is asked to deliver a lecture in a particular topic his focus should be on delivering the topic efficiently so that all the students will understand the topic, if he is unable to deliver a lecture properly his knowledge is not of much use to his students. In graduate schools a teacher might not have to teach a trivialize a topic to teach to it to all students as most of the students might have a fair knowledge of the subject being taught. Hence it is very much important for a teacher to understand the needs of his students while teaching than having a good knowledge in the subject being taught for efficient delivery of lecture.

Topic :- A teacher’s ability to relate well with students is more important than excellent knowledge of the subject being taught. There is saying in my country “A good teacher can make student culminate greatness and a bad teacher can equally plunged student down”. Teacher plays a very important part in the life of student. He is not only responsible for student’s subjective knowledge but for his personality as well. There is numerous example which can be easily found in mankind history. I do believe that a teacher ability to relate well with students supersede profound knowledge of the subject being taught. Although, a teacher should have decent knowledge of the subject being taught if not excellent. A potter need to know the properties of clay like whether it is smooth or rough when wet, whether it get dried quickly, how much strength of clay and so on. There is a reason behind this. As all types of clay tends to behave differently than others: what may work with one type of clay, it might not work with another. Based on this understanding, potter work with shapeless clay to derive some beautifully shaped structure. Same analogy can be applied to teacher-student relationship. A teacher plays the role of potter in shaping a student mind. And to do this effectively, teacher need to understand and relate to the student. If a teacher is able relate to the students, he or she will have profound impact on students than the teacher with excellent knowledge but little understanding of student. One Such example can be story of a boy named Alex and his teacher Ram. Alex was suffering of dyslexia and was having difficulties in learning even though he was studying in one of the best school of city which had most educated and recondite teachers. But it took one art teacher Ram to help Alex ameliorate his studies performance. Ram empathetic of Alex’s condition, developed teaching method based on the fact around the Alex’s predilection towards drawing and colors. Ram encourage Alex to see words and mathematics as he would think about his drawing and colors. This led to striking change in Alex’s study results. He scored well in every subject and went on to become one of the most successful student of his batch. Here, Ram’s ability to understand Alex’s condition and use Alex’s liking for drawing shaped Alex into a successful person. All teacher with excellent knowledge was not able to help him due to mere fact that they were not able to relate his struggles. Although, some people will gainsay that a teacher need to have excellent knowledge of subject being taught to give a thorough knowledge to a student. I agree to them to an extent. A teacher must have a decent knowledge of the subject being taught. If a teacher has decent knowledge of the subject and can relate to student, even with his limited knowledge he can inspire student to work harder and learn the subject. As with the story of Ram and Alex in which Ram even though limited knowledge of other subject inspired Alex to work harder and achieve success. teacher always have important role in the life of students. A teacher with excellent knowledge of subject might not be able to stimulate the mind of the student due to lack of understanding of his students. On the other hand, if a teacher can relate to student, he or she can inspire them work harder towards their goals. Although, teacher do require to have certain amount of knowledge as to ignite student’s understanding towards the subject.

Hello, I am currently a certified math teacher at a high school (my first year). I will be starting my masters program in Mathematics so that I may teach at the community college level. What kind of doors will this open for me in the industry with a masters in math, bachelors in math education, but no experience in the industry? Any professional advice would be great!