Monday, September 27, 2010
Improving education
Education has been in the news quite a bit lately; this morning Matt Lauer interviewed President Obama for 30 minutes on this topic. Last night there was a teacher town hall meeting with Brian Williams. I found a link that posted people's comments on how to improve education. In the past, people have always blamed teachers for the state of education. It is nice to read that some people realize that parents and students should shoulder some of the blame for our nation's educational problems. What do you think? Read the comments and, if your are motivated, watch the Education Nation video. What can teachers, parents and students do to improve education? What makes a great teacher?
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In my opinion a good teacher is someone who can have fun in their classroom, but still keeping us learn what is necessary. A good teacher keeps the kids interested while getting through the lessons. Teachers don't seem to like it when their students use attitude or rolling their eyes, but then a good teacher wouldn't use the same attitude towards their students. Too many times before us kids have gotten in trouble for using attitude towards teachers that in return teachers sometimes return it back to us. A good teacher shows us no attitude, but holds it in as hard as it may be at times. Teachers are to lead by example, and that would be a good teacher!
I think that the source of "bad education" stems from the first moment that a mother finds out that she is expecting. If, in one's home, one is not stimulated from birth with educational, problem solving, and memory oriented activities, they will not develope the thirst to learn, which will inhibit a teacher's ability to conduct a productive class session. In some cases, it is the teacher's fault for one reason or another, but more often than not, the only problems in a classroom come from the students who have problems in every class. If a student is unwilling to work for one teacher, they will more likely than not be unwilling to work with most other teachers, and I believe that this behavior, while not neccesarily supported in the home, is not discouraged. Parents have lost all sense of teaching their own children useful life skills, and have instead placed that responsibility on daycare centers and teachers. The only way for the problem of "poor education" to end is for parents to become more involved.
To be completely honest, all the extra homework that is assigned as "busy work" does absolutely nothing for us. We don't learn anything from it. If education is to be improved, then we need the teacher's to teach and not assign so much. If we had more class discussions, we would probably retain more and get better grades. Teachers, in my opinion, would be good if they did more class work and discussions.
To improve education is to do more work in the begining. If our parents stop and think about it. If they help us before we start school we will be able to comperhend better in the furture. All they have to do is read to us and have us read to them. It is better to be ahead in class than behind. I wish everyone had the smart parents that helped their child with education. If the child do nothing but play games when they are young then that is what the child going to do when they grow up. So teach the child to read and write and it would be more interested in doing that witch will help their minds. I like that it is not the teacher fault if the kid does not improve in their skills. The child learns from their parents. If you ask me it is the parents fault.
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