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Recently, Ms. Tsai and her Democratic Progressive Party
has announced the policies to cut monthly pension payments
for teachers and raise the retirement age to 65. This is a total
disaster. The reform make it such senior teachers cannot retire
and new teachers cannot get the official teaching jobs. Kids,
as we all know, are energetic and like the younger teachers.
So how could you suppose primary students pay attention to
teachers who are elderly enough to be their grandparents? A
new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows
that experience is the most important factor in most professions,
but not in teaching. The report is not saying that older teachers
should retire because they are burned out. Yet from what I have
seen in the classroom, primary students need young teachers
who are more energetic and enthusiastic. Teaching young kids
is a truly energy-consuming job, so it is best not to have a
big generation gap. Even worse, when we are learning about
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E R S 林佳璉
AL MAGAZINE
MARCH 2011
“How has learning about how to teach
influenced your views on the education
system in Taiwan? ”
teaching innovations or creative teaching methods like flipped
education, most of teachers in secondary schools are still
teaching students in a traditional way, such as giving a lecture
or evaluate student performance on tests. To my surprise, some
even think flipped education is the strategy for schools that fail
to recruit enough students.
Sadly, the unthoughtful policy announced by Minister of