Commercialization of "Volunteer Teaching", living in a B&B restaurant, and obtaining an international volunteer certificate in 5 days?
When teaching becomes commercialized, can you spend 5 days in a hotel or restaurant and get a certificate as an international volunteer?
Rural teachers' volunteer work is an effective way to solve the problem of shortage of rural educational resources, and it also enables college students to have a deeper understanding of the connotation of education. Such an experience, even if they do not teach in a village school in the future, can have a positive impact on their personality development.
Working experience as a volunteer is an important requirement at many top international universities. However, participating in a regular volunteer activity may conflict with their academic schedules. In response to this phenomenon, some schools have launched study tours called volunteer tours, which are no different from study tours.
However, some missionary work has become a commercial business. Students who are lured by their diplomas to volunteer internationally often spend very little time, not even 20 hours. As a result, the missionary work evolved into a short-term trip, with little time with the local students, who had to spend the night in a small hotel and eat in a restaurant.
For example, Xiao Liu, a junior college student in Sichuan, went to Guangnan Village in Guilin to teach, and it took almost a day to travel and train for 3 days. Although Liu felt that his work experience was valuable, what he really got was an international volunteer qualification certificate awarded by the World Nature** - 35 hours of volunteer remuneration.
In addition, some college students take advantage of the winter and summer vacations to go to rural primary schools to shoot under the pretext of teaching, which does not help rural students' learning. As a result, educational activities have lost their essence of public interest and become a commercial transaction. Therefore, it has become a more feasible way for non-governmental organizations to carry out voluntary teaching, and the conditions suitable for participating in the three branches and one support are even more demanding.
This kind of business practice not only did not benefit the rural children, but also made the front-line teachers even more distressed. There is already a shortage of teachers in rural schools, and one teacher has to teach several subjects in several classes. I thought that I could reduce the financial burden of students through voluntary service, but now I have encountered more difficulties. Compulsory teacher education should be a genuine public welfare program, not a commercial purpose.
The arrival of the missionaries completely disrupted the original teaching arrangement, and they did not prepare at all, either copying it or making it up. The curriculum they advertise is broad-minded, but in reality, the children in the countryside are at a loss.
Task after task, time and time again, the mood of the students fluctuated, as if they were playing a game. The students' cordial greetings to the teachers and their reluctance to attach themselves to the teachers have formed a string of threads in their minds, and each teacher has become a master actor, while the teachers who teach on tour are infected by their own motivations.
This kind of commercialization of education has promoted local tourism to a certain extent, but it has not played a big role in education. The most beneficiaries are volunteer teachers from small cities. Rich work experience, rich work experience, enrich their resumes, broaden their horizons, and enhance their competitiveness in future study and work.
Originally intended to bridge the educational gap between urban and rural areas, the purpose of the tour group is to deepen the imbalance rather than reduce it. With the intensification of education in the cities, education in the rural areas has become more and more impoverished and disorderly.
In order to guarantee the right to education of rural students, public education programs must not be allowed to be undermined. ** Missionaries generally receive the same benefits as local teachers, or are provided with accommodation in the dormitory and cafeteria. To the greatest extent, the church should provide better services to local schools and provide a better teaching environment; That's what missionary journeys are all about.
The departments concerned should conduct a profound reflection on their own problems and correct their irregular behaviors. It's not that some students don't want to teach, it's just that they can't find more ways to participate in social education, so some institutions profit from it. If the relevant departments can do a better job of standardizing education, perhaps, people will no longer be able to teach as a profession.
Volunteers must undergo systematic training before taking up their posts, and the internship period shall not be less than one month, excluding the round-trip journey. Only in this way can the teaching activities of teachers receive sufficient attention and make them receive real money. If this is not the case, then having an international volunteer certification will only make the training more expensive and thus meaningless.
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