Commercialization of Volunteer Teaching Residents cook part-time in the dormitory and get an international volunteer certificate in 5 days?
When"Teaching"Commercialized, living in hotels and restaurants, and getting an international volunteer certificate in 5 days?
Volunteer teaching is an important way to alleviate the shortage of educational resources in rural areas, and it also provides opportunities for college students to deeply understand the meaning of education. Even if they do not teach in a rural school in the future, this experience will have a positive impact on their personal growth.
Volunteering experience is a clear criterion in the application requirements of many top international schools. However, participating in general volunteering activities may affect a student's study plans. To solve this problem, some educational institutions have launched"Travel and teaching"Programs, advertised as volunteering, are not really much different from study visits.
However, some missionary activities have become commercial businesses. Under the Become an International Volunteer Certificate**, the students participated in the mission trip, only to find that the actual travel time was very limited, not even 20 hours. In this case, the mission turned into a short trip, with accommodation in hotels, meals in restaurants, and little time with local students.
For example, Xiao Liu, a student at Sichuan University, participated in a volunteer teaching mission in Guangnan Village, Guilin, and in the planned five-day trip, the actual teaching time was only three days, and the round-trip journey took almost a whole day. Although Liu found the experience very meaningful, he only received 35 hours of volunteer time, and his certificate is also an international volunteer certificate issued by the organization.
On the other hand, some college students only go to rural schools to take pictures during the winter and summer vacations under the banner of teaching, which does not really help the education of local students. This kind of behavior means that the volunteer teaching activity has lost its due public welfare and has become a commercial behavior. Even"Three to one"The threshold for adequate teaching has been raised, and these volunteer teaching activities organized by private educational institutions have become a more convenient option.
These commercialized teaching activities do not really benefit rural students, but instead create more problems for front-line teachers. Rural schools no longer have sufficient resources for teaching and learning, and a single teacher may be responsible for multiple subjects for several school years. The initial expectation was to ease their burden through teaching, but now they are facing more problems. Study trips should be truly public welfare projects, not business trips for profit.
The arrival of the missionaries completely upended the original teaching plan, because they did not prepare the lessons, and either copied them or wrote and acted on their own. They keep saying that they want to broaden the horizons of their students, but in reality they leave rural students at a loss.
Tasks come and go, and so on, and the students' emotions fluctuate a lot, a bit like acting in a drama. The students no longer really welcome the arrival of the teachers, and they are no longer reluctant to let the teachers go, this has become a set of lines that they say casually, and every teacher has become"Old drama bones"The teachers on tour were immersed in self-motivation.
While this commercialization of education certainly stimulates local tourism, it does not actually help much in education. Relatively speaking, the biggest beneficiaries are urban students who come to teach. The hours and experience you have as a volunteer can add to your CV, broaden your horizons, and increase your competitiveness in your studies and future employment.
The original intention of the tour group was to narrow the gap between urban and rural education levels, but as a result, the tour group not only did not close the gap, but deepened it. Education in the cities has been strengthened, while education in the countryside has become poorer and more chaotic.
In order to protect the educational rights and interests of rural students, public education programs must not be allowed to deteriorate. Missionary activities organized by the government generally enjoy the same treatment as local teachers, or provide room and board in school dormitories and canteens. The real meaning of a business trip is that the traveling teacher should help improve the educational level of the local school and improve the educational environment as much as possible.
While correcting the non-standard study tour activities, the relevant departments should also reflect on the shortcomings in the work. Some students are not unmotivated to teach, but lack access to more public education, which is an opportunity that some institutions can take advantage of. If the government had been able to organize more standardized teaching activities, perhaps no one would have turned teaching into a means of making money.
Volunteers should receive systematic training before taking up their posts, and the actual teaching time should not be less than one month, and the round-trip time is not counted. Only in this way can the teaching activities have due significance and the volunteer certificate can have gold content. Otherwise, every holder of the International Volunteer Certificate will further increase the cost of education and lose the original meaning of education.
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