When "volunteer teaching" is commercialized, living in a B&B restaurant, and getting an international volunteer certificate in 5 days?
Teaching"Commercialization, Hotels, Restaurants, International Volunteer in 5 days?
Volunteer teachers are an effective way to solve the problem of lack of educational resources in rural areas, and it is also a way to give college students a comprehensive understanding of the importance of education. Even if they are not able to teach in rural primary schools in the future, the work experience of a volunteer teacher will have a positive impact on their personal development.
Voluntary work experience is one of the admission requirements for many internationally renowned universities. However, participating in regular volunteering activities can also have an impact on learning. As a result, some schools use it"Volunteering"with"Travel and teaching"Actually, this is no different from a study visit.
However, some volunteering tasks have turned into commercial activities. Students who advertise volunteering internationally find that the actual volunteer hours are very short, sometimes less than 20 hours. In this way, volunteering becomes a short trip, accommodation with a host family, meals at restaurants, and little time to get to know the local students.
For example, Xiao Liu, a student at Sichuan University, volunteered for five days in Guangnan Village in Guilin, working for only three days and spending nearly a day traveling back and forth. Although Xiao Liu found the experience meaningful, he only volunteered for 35 hours and earned an international volunteer certificate from the organization.
In stark contrast, some college students take advantage of the holidays to shoot in rural schools, and these are not educational to local students. Compulsory military service thus loses its real public interest and is reduced to a commercial practice. Even a three-month regular military service is very time-consuming.
Far from helping children in rural areas, these commercial promises have created more problems for frontline teachers. Rural schools are already understaffed, with one teacher responsible for multiple subjects at different grades. At first, it was hoped that volunteer teachers would help them share the pressure, but now it seems that they have to face more difficulties. Volunteering should be a public service in the truest sense of the word, not a form of business tourism.
The arrival of the teaching team completely disrupted their initial plans. Instead of being prepared, they repeat their words mechanically or babble gibberish. They kept saying that they wanted to broaden the students' horizons, but in reality they were confusing the children in the camp.
The missionaries came and went, disturbing the students, and in the end it was like a play. For teachers, they are no longer welcomed from the hearts of their students and have nothing to talk to, this has become a mantra on their lips, and every teacher has become"Old drama bones", and those missionaries who went to volunteer were deeply disturbed.
Compulsory education for business purposes has promoted the development of local tourism to a certain extent, but it has not contributed much to education. This is the biggest gain compared to urban students who receive compulsory education. The time and experience of volunteering will enrich your CV, broaden your horizons, and enhance your competitiveness in future training and work.
Instead of narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, compulsory education for teachers has widened the gap between regions. Education in the cities has improved, but education in the countryside has become poorer and more chaotic.
The right to education of rural students cannot be guaranteed"Alienation"They. **Subsidized volunteer teachers generally enjoy the same treatment as local teachers, or eat and live in dormitories or school cafeterias. Volunteer teachers should do their best to support and promote the teaching and learning work of local primary and secondary schools.
In the clean-up of the illegal"Mentors"After that, it is even more important for the authorities to reflect on the shortcomings of their own work. It's not that some students are reluctant to participate in volunteer services, but that there are no more opportunities to participate in public welfare activities, which gives some organizations an opportunity to take advantage of. If the commitment to volunteerism were managed more uniformly, perhaps no one would see volunteering as a means of profit.
Volunteers who volunteer must undergo systematic training before they can start their job, but the probationary period is at least one month, not counting the time spent traveling to and from school. Only in this way can the volunteer work of volunteer teachers be fully affirmed and volunteered"Gold content"to be highlighted. Otherwise, if everyone has an international volunteer card, the cost of education will become higher and higher, and it will lose its original meaning.
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