Issue:

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Teacher should be very strict in class.
Support your response with the specific reasons and examples.
Normally, students differentiate their teachers according their way of implementing rules
in the classroom. There are strict teachers who are very tough on students and lenient teachers
who can tolerate their students faults.
Some people think that the teacher who is serious and strict is more efficient to teach
students. Teachers play a vital role in the growth of children. Maybe the strict teaching
methodology can push them to learn perform well in school. But, there are humorous and
easygoing teacher too. If I able to choose, I prefer the second one.
First let's see the strict teacher. If teachers being so strict at classroom, students are afraid
from them and they also afraid when are have done a mistake. When teachers are so strict,
student lost their eager to learn new lesson, they just try to pass courses. Besides, because of their
fear they could not learn as their parents expected. They fall in high pressure and just to keep
mouth shut in classes. In this situation, even though some of them may have high scores, they
cannot get the real knowledge, but just short memory that will disappear when there are no force
anymore.
On the other hand, humors bring out students' interests to acquire knowledge. Vivid and
funny class is a gate way to attract students, which make them not only enjoy the process of
learning but also become concentrate on lesson, especially some lesson like history,
mathematics. Take my own experience for example. When I am in senior high school, I like
mathematics because my teacher were so funny. A lot of jokes he gave to student every day. He
taught us how to understand math and made it funny lesson. He also told us his experience when
senior high school like us. And that lesson become enjoy because comfort and enjoyable moment
in class.
Students spend a lot of hours in school, so they should feel comfort in school. Friendly
teachers able to make a relationship with students and talk with them, sometimes they have
solved student's problem. Besides, students in their classroom have no fear, they can ask every
question and also they do their homework more carefully in fact they are enjoying when they are
at school.
Thats two different opinion about teachers behavior in class. Both of them have positive
and negative sides. It depends on us how to fit in when we study with strict teacher and
easygoing teacher. In the classroom, the most important responsibilities of teachers is teaching
students and meanwhile prepare them to face with life's difficulty in their future. These goals will
be gained if teachers and student cooperate each others.
Aldo Lesmana M.P
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