Solving the teaching problem lies in granting teachers the ability to teach effectively and receive incentives that make their job worth having. The profession is not an easy one and comes with plenty of responsibility and should be treated as such. However, is the plan of giving teachers better incentives reasonable? I asked a family member, my step-mother, what she thought about the solution of setting a higher standards for teachers and creating more incentives for the profession? After going through some of the potential solutions to the problem and how the profession could be transformed into something more and provide students with a better education system she agreed with the overall concept. She too felt that teachers need to be held to a higher standard considering what they are tasked with achieving. …show more content…
In addition to access to qualified teachers, she expressed her concern that the education system is restricting the teachers through standardized testing and stated "a new system needs to be put in place". I explained to her how other successful countries such as Singapore have gotten rid of the traditional "rote-learning" teaching style and started focusing more on a critical thinking format for students in the classroom and if that would be a better option? She loved the idea and felt that traditional teaching, at a time, was effective but has lost its flare and it is time to start teaching students to think critically and be able to solve complex problems rather than memorize lessons for a