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To ensure education quality, high schools often have various requirements on teachers. Among all criteria that a teacher has to meet, most schools would stress the importance of teachers’ capability of guiding students to make plan for their future, offering specific supports to students who need help, and motivating students to learn on their own. In my opinion, the last one must be the most essential one that a teacher should be good at.
To start with, in consideration of the limited time in class, teachers should be aware of the necessity for students to do more practice after class. For most subjects, students take the course once or twice a week. Teachers need to make good use of the time to finish their teaching plans, like introducing a new terminology, explaining a complex concept, and demonstrating an interesting experiment. There is actually little time left for students to practice on their own which is significant for them to absorb knowledge. Therefore, teachers usually choose to assign homework. There is no exaggeration to say that a student’s academic performance to a large extend depends on his efforts made in doing homework. In a word, whether the homework a teacher assigns can encourage students to study on their own after class is of great importance.
Secondly, it is even better if a teacher is able to inspire students to do more researches and explore the field according to their interests. Normally, most schools merely require teachers to cover the content in textbooks and help students prepare standard tests, which only makes students to become mediocre. However, an outstanding teacher who aims at helping students explore potential and strive for excellence ought to encourage students to further expand their outlook and conduct in depth study. Students who are internally charged to work hard on a subject are able to acquire knowledge beyond what a teacher conveys in class. For example, a literature teacher may just have time to introduce one novel of a famous writer in detail, but his teaching will be more successful if he can inspire students to read more books of this writer or of others in the same era.
Admittedly, it is also important for teachers to help students plan their future and give a hand to students who need help. With a clear goal, students will become more motivated and more willing to make efforts. Also, it is a teacher’s duty to guarantee that all students have a successful high school life. A teacher’s failure to find those in difficulties may have little impact on his evaluation but may completely ruin those students’ study in high school. However, when a teacher is able to motivate students to even make more efforts after class, students will have satisfied or excellent academic performance which enables them to make future plans and overcome difficulties in study on their own.
To sum up, a successful teacher should possess a variety of qualities, including the ability to give students advices on future development, to find students’ special needs, to motivate students work hard after class. For all those requirements, the last one is especially important, as it helps students to become self-driven and hence capable of solving most problems in study on their own.
20xx1209托福獨立寫作題目：
Which one is the most important for high school teachers? (students aged 15 to 18)
1 the ability to give advice about planning for future
2 the ability to recognize students that need help
3 the ability to encourage students to learn on their own outside the classroom
本文作者：Cindy(公眾號：英文寫作素材)