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| Reflection
on Third Letter: I Came into the Teacher Training Program
Because I Had No Other Option
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“Third Letter: I Came into the Teacher Training Program
Because I Had No Other Option” raises an extremely important
problem of the modern education, the problem of teachers’
motivation and their role in the contemporary society. In
fact, the author underlines that many teachers have come into
the teacher training programs because they either did not
have any other more perspective options where they could apply
their knowledge, skills, and abilities, or, what is simply
cynic, they chose this programs while ‘waiting for marriage’.
Naturally, it is hardly possible to disagree with the author
that such teachers are absolutely unmotivated and, obviously,
they cannot be really good professionals who are focused on
teaching as the profession in which they can realize themselves
and be helpful to other people. However, as the author justly
points out, the roots of such a low motivation or, to put
it more precisely, the lack of it may be found in the low
prestige of the profession of a teacher.
In actuality, it is not a secret that the financial motivation
of teachers is extremely low, while their role in society,
their contribution to educating new generations and, thus,
further social progress, remain practically ignored and not
rewarded, at least financially. As a result, the situation
in the modern education is really threatening because of the
lack of really motivated professionals keen on education.
In such a situation, it is quite natural that the author appeals
to the political struggle of teachers for their rights and
improvement of their position both economic and social in
order to gain the deserved respect of society and be properly
rewarded for their hard work, but the problem is that often
there are no historical traditions of honoring of teachers.
This is why, according to the author, teachers should not
wait while some political party decides to use them in their
political goals promising the improvement of teachers’
life and conditions of work but, instead, launch their own
struggle on the basis of postmodern agenda. At the same time,
it is necessary to thoroughly control the current political
forces that are in power at the present moment in order to
force to improve the position of teachers.
Unquestionably, the problems raised in this chapter are of
a paramount importance to professional educators since they
help better understand the current situation and the causes
of the existing problems in education which are, to a significant
extent, provoked by the lack of professionalism of teachers
who have practically no motivation and their work is based
on enthusiasm only.
At the same time, it is even more important to teachers to
listen to the advice given by the author since teachers should
realize their social role, their significance, as well as
the fact that they should not be passive in the political
life of the society they live in. Instead, the organized political
struggle of teachers may be a really effective tool that can
help improve their social position and professional life.
Bibliography:
1. Third Letter: I Came into the Teacher Training Program
Because I Had No Other Option
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