Toulmin Model Arguement

Kati Haycock expresses her opinion to the looming question of, "How to raise the status of teachers?" She explains that schools and administrations need to improve teacher training. I agree. Teachers must be better prepared for their position in order to become more respected by our society and in order for more upcoming employees to pursue the field of education. Many teachers today obtain their lessons directly from the textbook, along with the homework worksheets and assignments. This causes their lessons to be repetitive, not interesting to the students, and not beneficial to the teacher. If teachers were required to be better educated in their field, they would have a wider variety of unique information to share with their students to keep them interested in class. Also, requiring teachers to be better educated would benefit them in other aspects of life. In my own school, it is obvious that the teachers who have earned their masters degree are more prepared for teaching and helping their students be successful than those who have just earned the minimum requirements. These teachers don't necessarily make their subject "fun" and easy, but the students seem to enjoy it because they feel like they are actually learning something instead of wasting their time on information they may forget. Although it may be true that many other steps will be required in order for teachers to earn respect from our society, teachers being required to be better educated than they are now would be a major step.