Say no to the teacher-oriented education

Say no to the teacher-oriented education
When the teacher-oriented education is mentioned, the image that appears in people’ mind is usually boring to death: one teacher is standing in front of the class, lecturing and putting the main points on the blackboard. How about the audience? The students who are supposed to listen carefully have an unexpected sleepy look. To what degree can Chinese students bear up such kind of classes? Actually, it is high time that actions should be taken to change the teacher-centered model for improving students’ interests in study, making the class more efficient and develop students’ creativity.
Students will be more addicted to class-learning if they can be fully involved in it. The biggest shortcoming of the typical give-and-take class is that students are in a passive state where they are excluded from the process of searching and thinking. According to a scientific research on 236 students aged 13 to 15 in a middle school in Hangzhou, 87% students can entirely concentrate on a class for 25 to 40 minutes, when they can actively participate in the class. Nevertheless, only 23% students can pay good attention to the lecture when they are in a passive state in learning. It’s quite clear that how badly students can lose their enthusiasm when they are just kept to sit and listen. The more attendance they gain, the more interests there can be in class.
The active and efficient class can be achieved by changing the situation where teachers take control of the classes. Outwardly, the discipline is good. But the peaceful class order is at the expense of low efficiency. Professor Zhang in Anhui University made a speech on the reformation of education last month. He said; “it’s a kind of forced-feeding method that teachers fill students’ head with a great deal of information without consideration whether they can absorb it. Instead of learning knowledge, they are forced to accept it.”In a teacher-dominate class, students cannot have a deep impression on what their teacher has taught them and thus cause a low efficiency. In a word, class-learning can be active and efficient if teachers no longer dominate the classes.
Creativity which is vital to the students’ future can’t be well developed in the teacher-oriented education. In this kind of classes, teachers directly tell students the solution to a certain problem so that the process of thinking is taken away and make students lack of creativity. A passage named “China Conundrum” from the New York Times reveals such problem. In the passage, Mr. Ma says “everything is copying in China. They write a 25-page paper and they spent 2 hours and they got an A.”There is a clear point that Chinese education kills the creativity of students. Many Chinese students who hold the opinion tend to attend the universities in the US, which are considered to be a cradle for the creative elites. In order to change this situation and truly develop students’ creativity, the teacher-oriented teaching method should be reformed
urgently.
It is often argued that the teacher-dominate teaching has been long remained in Chinese history and has become an indispensible part in Chinese education system. So it’s not practical to remove or change it. However, being a habit doesn’t mean that it’s true. If it can’t keep up with the tendency of education development, great efforts should be paid without hesitation. To some extent, it has been causing a severe negative effect on education. It lowers students’enthusiasm on study, reduces their attentions and kills their creativity. Thus, the typical give-and-take teaching shouldn’t be no longer considered as an ideal educational method.
All in all, there are a great amount of disadvantages for continually reserving the forced-feeding teaching. If it can be removed from Chinese education, great changes can soon emerge: the education can be more scientific, beneficial and efficient. It is high time that a great revolution should be carried out to change the teacher-oriented education.。