雅思范文：教学能力

 　　Some people say that to become a good teacher, you should acquire enough training, while others say that teaching capabilities¹ can be developed with experience.  Discuss both views and give your opinion.  Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.

　　Sample Essay

　　>Being an effective teacher is about having knowledge from training and experience from practice.  While teaching capabilities can be developed with experience, it is also important that you should learn professional skills through special training in the first place.  In general, school children are expected to benefit from those teachers who have enough pre-job training as well as on-job practice.

　　On the one hand, some people say that an excellent teacher ought to be formally trained.  Based on this view, to be successful in the teaching career, it is necessary to go through a series of training sessions for obtaining sufficient knowledge related to teaching strategy and psychology² that lead to a satisfactory job.  For example, the making of a teacher is not very unlike the making of a lawyer.  Just as a qualified³ lawyer should require a great deal of information about laws, so should a qualified teacher know much about teaching methods.  That is to say, training can make a difference in the teaching work.  This is probably why in many countries exist a range of Teachers' Colleges or Normal Universities.

　　On the other hand, others believe that a great teacher is born rather than trained, as if being independent of experience.  According to this opinion, even though pre-job training is useful to some extent, what matters seems to be that kind of passion which is similar to natural experience. So much so, teaching capabilities are not only powered by career passion but also grow along with experience.  Hence, there may be no absolute need to acquire sufficient teaching techniques beforehand.  In short, you can either do with or do without training to become an outstanding teacher.

　　On the whole, it is debatable whether you think that a good teacher should acquire enough training or that teaching capabilites can be developed with experience.  There is no easy answer to this question.  The answer depends on who you ask, of course.

1 capabilities   

n.能力( capability的名词复数 )；可能；容量；[复数]潜在能力

参考例句：

• He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities. 他有点自大，自视甚高。 来自辞典例句
• Some programmers use tabs to break complex product capabilities into smaller chunks. 一些程序员认为，标签可以将复杂的功能分为每个窗格一组简单的功能。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

2 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。

3 qualified   

adj.合格的，有资格的，胜任的，有限制的

参考例句：

• He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
• We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。