Okay well this whole excerpt from from the piece written by Anyon brings up a lot of problems in this classroom. One of the most important requirements of a teacher is too involve students with different challenges that involve decision making or choice because those keys are huge in life. On top of this students like a challenge and it keeps them intrigued in a classroom setting. Now another part of this quote that is really disturbing is how the author writes that the teacher didn't explain why the work was being assigned or its connection to other works. Like are you kidding me? How can you consider yourself a teacher without explaining what is going on? The students need to understand the meaning of the assignment and how it connects to others. This quote is honestly annoying to ready and makes me angry that this actually goes on, but once again I'm not shocked.
"Serious attention is rarely given in school work on how the children develop or express their own feelings and ideas, either linguistically or in graphic form. On the occasions when creativity or self-expression is requested, it is peripheral to the main activity or it is "enriched" or "for fun."
Creativity is a huge key in a classroom in my opinion, especially for young students. They should be able to express their feelings in a constructive way in order help influence other discussions in the classroom. Another piece to this is what makes a classroom so special is the individuals personality and how the kids work with another, which allows them to grow as individuals. The thought of forced fun that is also talked about in this quote is morally wrong. There is no turn on or off switch for creativity and you can't expect a student too suddenly have all this creativity just for the specific assignment. This statement is sad to here and like the above quote is honestly ridiculous if it occurs daily in a classroom, let a kid be themselves!!
" Children are continually asked to reason through a problem, to produce intellectual products that are both logically sound and of top academic quality. A primary goal of thought is to conceptualize rules by which elements may fit together in systems and then to apply these rules in solving a problem. Schoolwork helps one to achieve, to excel, to prepare for life."
It's unfortunate to hear that this only occurs in an upper economic classroom because it should take place in every classroom. Problem solving is an important skill to have especially as you get older in life. Another important key in the classroom is the idea of setting goals not only as a student but as a teacher. So it's nice to see that a primary goal of the educator is to conceptualize rules by which elements can relate to one another in different systems. Connections are crucial in an educational setting! Not only this it's even more crucial in solving a problem, not only school but in life. This is why these schools are so successful maybe we should start taking some time an educate teachers of other schools to think this way. We need to prepare our students properly for life.
Overall this piece was probably one of the better ones that I have read all year. I loved how the author took five different school settings and compared them in order to show why higher economic school's have a better success rate. It's troubling at the same time however, to hear about how different these schools are and how the teachers play such a large role in it. It makes you want to get out there improve the schools that truly need it. The higher economic class shouldn't be the only ones getting prepared to be a doctor it should be everyone in school. Goals need to be set by everyone in order to students to succeed.
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