If one country want to be strong, the education is indispensable. The America as superpower obviously has various of the features for the education system. In the system, American teachers are an important part of the education. The America constantly improves in the education system and the teacher’s situation. However, the American education and teachers both have their problems. If people want to know whether American education and teacher’s condition is advanced, they need to understand their strengths and weaknesses.
The strengths of American teacher include flexible schedule, learning new knowledge, and stability. The American teachers can arrange their work hours …show more content…
The American education and union help teacher to receive an equality salary. This state avoids unfair treatment and discrimination when teachers work similar hours. It also encourages and confirms young teacher’s performances, and help every student in different schools acquires similar education because if some schools paid high salary, the good teachers would concentrate in few schools. Furthermore, the American government invests a lot of money, in the education, and it is 4.8% G.D.P. at 2005. It is apparently that America values the education. The investment supports students to have high quality education and finances parts of their tuition. In addition, the system also has flexible teaching methods. The American education focus on training student’s creativity and improve student’s learning interest. For example, in Education Matters, Kenneth prepared a lot of information to help him taught his students. It causes that his students concentrate on his content and interest his …show more content…
First, the merit pay and promotion help teacher stay interested in classroom teaching. However, the system does not have an effective incentive mechanism. According to the “America’s New Teachers” , the writers claimed that the system needed fundamental change and offered real promotion. Moreover, the American education system also meet high teacher turnover rate. Many teacher leave in the first five years, and more new teacher start their teaching career. The system loses experienced teachers and waste money again to train new teachers. Anna, a best-selling novelist, claimed that the school need to pay more money for retaining professional teachers. Finally, teachers get a little support for their practice. They lack professional training and lose professional growth. They want some schools to teach them new skills and knowledge. The education system need to support training for teachers, and give them a good development