A Solution: Evolution

If you think about, many doctors you encounter are very good at their job. Why is this? They spend years as high school, undergraduate, and medical students practicing sciences and honing their craft to become the optimal doctor you see today. This intensity of hard work and dedication could be called the “evolution” of the doctor because those who do not have the level of fitness, or the hard work and dedication, drop out at any phase where the work is too strenuous. This creates the “fittest” doctors.

Well, what if you could apply this “evolution” theory to other careers such as a teacher? What if there was a requirement for teachers to have a certain level of schooling like doctors? Teachers that go through more schooling such as a graduate or doctorate programs hone their knowledge to where they can pass that knowledge onto their students.  Another reason stipulating a higer degrre requirement is the more schooling they have, the more teaching styles they encounter and learn to adapt for their own use as a teacher in the future. This would create a teacher who could teach students with enthusiasm because they spent their entire schooling evolving into the “fittest” teacher.

The “evolution” of the teacher could be one solution to the multitude of problems raised in the documentary Waiting for “Superman”. If there is a “fit” teacher in the classroom, the students learn 150 percent of the curriculum which would raise test scores and increase funding (Guggenheim).  This solution requires dedication not only from rising teachers but from the students, parents, and educational boards to make even the slightest progress towards a highly-educated youth.

Works cited: Waiting for“Superman”. Paramount Vantage, 2012. DVD