Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Teacher training colleges in wrong 'place'

Reference
Razak, D.A. (2009. July 5). “Teacher training colleges in wrong ‘place’.” New
Straits Times (Malaysia) from LexisNexis Academic.

Summary
In the article “Teacher training colleges in wrong ‘place’”, Razak describes
education has an effect of the future economic system; therefore, in order to
develop into a high-income country and have a sustainable economic system,
the government needs to review the education system. Also he said sometimes
we have to break the traditional education system to introduce new and
different education systems. Moreover to reconstruct the education system,
every system supports and cooperates with each other. Also, the original
Education Ministry was divided into two, and the teacher education is
under the new Education Ministry, and Institut Pendidikan Guru (IPG) was
made to connect school and teachers. There are enough institutions and
information to study in IPG and some university that is placed under the
Higher Education Ministry. However it has the disadvantages; for example,
the students cannot cement a friendship or share much information. As a
result, these things have bad influence on the education of teachers in the
future and give confusion to many people.
Response
I agree that the economic and education system are linked. Also I agree
that the most important way to develop one’s country is to improve the
education system, because we are requested the average of the academic
ability when we get a job. So I think it is good for children to put a great
deal of effort into study. Moreover I think that when the government
reviews the education system, the government has to change carefully,
because sometimes changing the education system has bad influence on
the children. In 2001, the Japanese government changed the education
system. Until then, we had had a class on Saturday; also, we had studied
a lot of contents in every subject. However, by revision of the education
system, we don’t have a class on Saturday, and we are not taught some
contents of every subject. Moreover the government insisted that the
children should spend time with their family on Saturday and every day
play with friends. I think this revision was not good, because many
children began to go to cram school even on Saturday; also, they came
to rely on cram school more than school. So the revision of the
education system had a bad influence on the children. I think the
government has to revise more carefully. When I am a teacher, I have to
teach in accordance with the education system. So I hope the education
system will change for not only children, but also teachers.         

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