托福独立写作题目：帮助老师提高教学质量
Task 2
Independent writing
题目
A city wants to help teachers of its high school students (age 14-18) to improve their teaching. It is considering two plans:
1、Choose a small group of excellent teachers; these teachers will attend a class led by an expert for additional training in how to teach effectively, and they will then come back to their schools and provide that training for other teachers in school.
2、Provide additional training in teaching effectively for high school teachers, using online material that each teacher will study individually.
写作思路
本次综合写作以及独立写作都很简单。独立写作题目曾经考过，也是关于学校教师教学能力的培训。
独立写作具体思路可借鉴：
选择在网上自学：1. 让老师们更方便地进行学习和提升。2. 避免有经验的老师为了竞争而故意有所保留。3. 让步：让一些优秀的老师先去进行培训更能领悟和近距离感受更好的教学方法。
Key sentences:
1、First off, teachers studying individually online offers a more practical and convenient way of improving teaching ability.
2、Additionally, teachers using materials online prevents experienced teachers from hiding important methods.
3、Granted, a group of experienced teachers can better understand the teaching method and help other teachers to master the method.
key words & phrases:
find oneself unable to understand the core problem, feasible, practical, time-saving, achievable, suitable.
写作范文一：
Which is more effective to improve the teaching quality, choosing representatives to receive the professional training or using the online courses to teach every teacher? Despite the fact that some people believe that with the development of science and technology the Internet courses will sooner or later take place of traditional ones in the educational area, others still hold adverse perspective. Personally, I am in favor of the latter for some good reasons as followed.
Admittedly, utilizing the Internet to teach individuals, to some extent, has its benefits. It provides people with a huge amount of information. Not only do teachers obtain the materials from the training, but also they are easy to look up more related information on the internet. In other words, it is much more convenient to gain insights which are far beyond that one person could obtain. However, the teachers are more likely to be distracted by other interesting courses, or maybe movies so on and so forth. Compared with it, the role experts playing in face-to-face delivering is much more vital.
When it comes to the benefits of imparting training in persons, there are some main reasons: first, in learning aspect, professionals will vary their teaching methods according to curiosity of teachers. In other words, different teachers can only accept different but exact teaching methods. Because those who attended the training are excellent teachers, they are experienced to ask efficiently. Consequently, after they train other teachers, the large number of students will be benefited.
Also, being at present enables teachers from diverse backgrounds to share their approaches of teaching which further amplifies the positive effects of this. A recent case in point concerns a seminar that several teachers in my school attended. They shared not only their understandings of what they acquired in the seminar but also the recordings of experts. Therefore, there is no doubt that teachers who do not attend the convention double their receiving in this way.
Last but not least, only at present, the teachers are easy to obtain what they learned vividly. Since when experts share their understandings with teachers, they for sure use verbal or body languages, teachers at present are able to enjoy the sharing and are also easy to concentrate on the courses.
All in all, based on the reasons that I have mentioned above, I may easily draw up the conclusion that the whole school will gain a great deal from the excellent teachers who are sent to receive training in persons. (416)
写作范文二：
In the face of fierce competition from international students and decline of local students’ interests in academic study, the government needs an effective plan to improve education quality of high schools. Undoubtedly, for any plan to take effect, the first step is to train teachers who are directly responsible for students’ study. In my mind, between options of training a few at first or training all of them online at the same time, the latter one must be a better strategy.
In consideration to efficiency, training all teaching staff online can help the government improve overall education quality in short time. Teachers usually have different schedules, so it must be difficult to have them together frequently in a seminar. Possibly, the compulsory training will arouse complaints. However, thanks to the wide coverage of Internet, teachers can easily access training materials at any place and any time individually and flexibly. Moreover, as high school teachers, they must possess the consciousness and capability of studying on their own. Therefore, with all teachers starting to study at the first time, the process can be greatly simplified. On the contrary, it costs twice as much as time to train a few elite teachers who then convey what they obtain to peers back to school.
In consideration to effectiveness, training all teachers online together will generate an atmosphere of positive competition and cooperation. It is more encouraging that all teachers begin at the same starting point. There can be a private account for each participant that records his or her studying progress and ranks among peers. In addition, trainees of all schools can freely share their thoughts and get inspiration from each other on the giant cyber environment. Under peer pressure, teachers will become more involved and active. However, another proposal of selecting a few good teachers getting training will run into troubles at the initial stage. The problem lies in how to select the “good teachers”. It is difficult to set a convincing standard that is agreeable and acceptable to all. A foreseeable outcome might be the emerging of bias between those selected and unselected.
To sum up, the wise choice of the government to improve education must be providing online training to all teachers together.
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