Advantages and disadvantages of the human teacher
Answers
Advantages:
Unions negotiate and ensure equitable salaries. They make sure that both experience and additional education/training are recognized. They also make sure that the basketball coach’s stipend is the same as the drama club’s (usually).
Unions can protect you from unfair practices which can irreparably harm your career (they are helping me out right now on this).
Unions will protect me in court if a student or parent decides to sue me directly for a real or imagined situation.
Unions standardize the evaluation system so that teachers are (theoretically) judged on the same criteria. In my district, tenured teachers are also evaluated every 3 years, and can be put into a support plan to improve their teaching, and can be removed from the classroom if they do not improve (proving it is possible to fire a tenured teacher short of them killing someone)
Unions can provide a “catastrophic sick leave bank,” where people can donate 1 day of their yearly sick leave (we do this every other year), and then when someone has a situation that keeps them out of the classroom for more time than their sick leave allows, they can dip into the bank.
Unions are a wonderful sounding board about handling sticky situations with students, parents and administrators, as they have all been in the classroom and have likely been through what you’re going through.
I get a cool polo shirt every year.
Disadvantages:
A strong union can protect a veteran teacher who absolutely should not be in the classroom, depending on the district and the union
My union dues seem higher and higher every year.
A union can ask a non-tenured teacher to do something that could jeopardize their job (in my first job in California, my union was planning to strike and told me that I would be ostracized if I didn’t join them, though they couldn’t protect me if I was fired).
Those polo shirts tend to fade quickly.
I’ve already started, so here are some of the disadvantages to having teacher unions:
(1) a political organization should not be able to act like the government. If the Republican party started charging for membership, I don’t imagine it would go over well. The reasons why unions can do so without the consent of the employees has, I believe, more to do with multi-million dollar contributions to state politicians and organizations than anything else. It’s wrong. If I felt a union was actually working in my best interest, I would voluntarily support it. Why was the choice taken away from me?
(2) As I understand it, the easiest way to fire a teacher (short of one sexually molesting a child), is consistent tardiness, making public threats, or not showing up for work. I know teachers protected by the union who held their jobs for extended periods of time despite these transgressions. A teacher left the state to care for a sick parent, and it took months to fire her, despite not showing up each day and despite her failure to communicate her situation to her superiors. I know a teacher who threatened (in front of fellow staff members) to kill his principal. He was held back by several staff members. He was transferred, not fired. I do not believe these stories to be aberrations. There are few consequences to teacher misconduct, and when teachers retain their jobs after misconduct, it makes the entire institution of education look ineffective and it ties the hands of effective administrators. Some of the worst cases have made the newspapers. I wonder how many stories have not.
(3) On a related note, there are very few consequences for poor teaching performance. If a teacher does a middling job for the first two to three years of employment, they are granted the magic status of tenure. I shall consider some of the benefits of tenure soon enough, but some of the longest-running teachers in my district are by far some of the least capable instructors (while some of the newest teachers were laid off in the recent budget crisis). We had a woman who, in her last years, delivered of various types of modern technology, used a computer screen as a place to put sticky notes. While knowing how to turn on a computer may not be the end all and be all of effective instruction, you might want a teacher in this day and age to have that skill set. Maybe. Anyone want to weigh in on how many teachers are actually fired for poor performances.
Mark me as brainliest
Advantages and Disadvantages of human teacher
Brad Henry, an
American politician has rightly said, “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite
the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” A great human teacher can do
miracles, which no one else can do. Who does not know Miss Sullivan, Helen
Keller’s great teacher who transformed the latter’s life. The day she arrived
at Helen's house, Helen called that day the most important day of her life.
Helen compared the arrival of her teacher to the shining of 'light of love' in
her darkened life. Miss Sullivan took unprecedented pains to teach Helen manual
alphabet. Since Helen was suffering from hearing as well as visual
disabilities, Miss Sullivan really had to work very hard to teach Helen the
alphabet.
The advantages
of a human teacher are many. As sated above, only a human teacher can transform
students’ life. A human teacher has the brain as well as the heart that can
work many times faster than the processors of a machine. He has the values such
as compassion, understanding, empathy, commitment, dedication, love, and sympathy
for his students that no sophisticated machine can ever have.
The
disadvantages of a human teacher can also be many, such as complacency, low
level of knowledge, selfishness, compromising nature, poor character, etc. But
these flaws can be mended with proper monitoring and management.
In conclusion
it can be said there is no substitute for a human teacher.