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문제
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
→ 부모님이 최고의 교육자라는 데 대한 동의, 비동의 문제. 특정한 근거를 대서 답할 것
모범답안
These days, homeschooling is becoming a more and more popular alternative to traditional learning methods and many parents believe that they can do a better job than professional educators. Personally, though, I do not feel that parents are the best teachers. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
→ 최근 들어 홈스쿨링(가정에서 교육하는 것)이 기존 교육 방식의 대체재로 대두도고 있는 점 인지, 하지만 부모님은 최고의 교육자가 될 수 없다는 본인 생각.
First of all, parents are biased when it comes to their own children. To be specific, most parents think that their children are the smartest kids in the world. As a result, they often teach them at an inappropriately quick pace, and mistakenly assume that they will be able to keep up. Over the course of an entire school year this can have serious consequences. An old friend of mine is a compelling example of this. Rather than attending his local public school, my friend was taught at home by his mother. His mother had good intentions, but she failed completely at teaching him math. She made the assumption that her son was able to grasp basic concepts right away and moved on immediately to advanced lessons that were above what he would have been learning at the public school. When it came time for my friend to take the annual state-mandated competency tests, he was wholly unprepared and he shocked his mom by earning a failing grade. This example demonstrates that parents are not always the best teachers.
#inappropriately: 부적절하게
#consequences: 발생한 일의 결과
→ 부모는 아이들 과대 평가하는 경향이 있어 적절한 페이스를 갖추지 못한다는 근거.
→ 자신의 친구를 예로 들어, 기초가 갖추어지지 않은 상태에서 부모님의 과대 평가에 따른 선택으로 고급 수학을 배워 결과적으로 낮은 수학 성적을 받은 것을 사례로 들었음.
Secondly, parents are not aware of modern teaching methods, and therefore use antiquated and ineffective methods to educate their children. Parents have children at increasingly advanced ages nowadays and when it comes time to teach them, they have been out of school for ten or twenty years. Professional teachers, in contrast, have time for professional development every year of their careers, and work in a collaborative environment where older teachers are kept up to date by their younger colleagues. This means that trained teachers excel at teaching youngsters of all backgrounds, while parents struggle to educate even their own children. While my friend’s mother eventually overcame her difficulty teaching math to her son, the next year she had a lot of trouble motivating him to keep up with his language lessons. She was proactive, though, and sought help from her local school board. The officials at the board put her in touch with a young teacher from a nearby elementary school. He showed her how to use the Internet to help her son find foreign-language resources more suited to his specific interests. Until she got help from that young teacher, she had no idea that the Internet included a wealth of videos, music and games that she could utilize with her son.
#antiquate: 한물간
→ 부모님은 현대의 교수법을 인지하지 못하고 있다는 점. 이에 반해 교사들은 지속적으로 전문적인 교육을 받는다는 근거.
→ 예시로는 주변의 친구가 아이를 가르치는 데 동기 부여가 어려워 힘듦을 겪을 때, 젊은 교사들에게 도움을 구했고 이를 통해 현실적이고 현대적인 도움을 받아 아이에게 동기 부여하는 것에 성공한 것.
In conclusion, I strongly disagree with the idea that parents are the best teachers. This is because parents are biased when it comes to their kids, and because professional teachers benefit from modern techniques and training.
→ 결론적으로, 부모님의 최고의 교육자라는 데는 동의하지 않음. 편견을 가지거나 현대 기술 및 훈련을 거친 교사들이 줄 수 있는 것이 크기 때문.