Should teachers be required to renew their qualifications every few year?

Today, education is one of the most important issues we need to tackle with in our society because we have so many problems related to children and schools. It’s obvious that it’s important for us to secure quality teachers for better education. I believe that renewing their qualifications every few year is necessary. I’ll talk about why I think so with two points

Firstly, teachers need to keep abreast of current affairs and teach the significance to students. We are living in various values and fast paced environment. We have to learn a lot from specific affairs and adapt to diversified environment.

For example, dietary education. This is Education for food habit and life-style related diseases such as diabetes. This education is done by acquiring the knowledge and ability of choice regarding food. This type of Education has been shed light on within decade.

As evidence, two years ago, dietary education Basic Act was established.

Children who take snacks or who lack of exercise, tend to suffer from disease such as diabetes. To prevent them, proper education in school is needed. Teachers also need to learn and get new type of knowledge to teach their students. To promote learning current affairs to teachers and to secure minimum level of standard across the country, renewing their qualifications every few year would be effective.

Secondly, improve quality of teachers.

Let’s take teacher of English for example. According to the report from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, only 20% of entire high school English teachers in Japan hold the pre 1st grade and over. As for junior high school

teachers, the percentage was only 10%! I was so shocked by miserable

status-quo. It's no wonder that Japanese English is so poor.

To improve quality of teachers, periodic evaluation system in their specific field is needed. As my private opinion, I propose that holding the 1st grade should be mandatory for high school teachers, the pre 1st grad for junior high school teachers. If they fail, pay cut or license deprivation should be in force.

In conclusion, it would be effective to impose teachers on renewing their qualifications every years.