Friday, September 13, 2013

My Three Paragraphs

What happens with homework is that teachers will start to get the chance to become lazy. Let's say the situation is that the teacher's lecture doesn't finish on time, so, whatever the student did not get to, the students are to do their best to improvise when they get home and open their books for homework. If this "situation" keeps occuring, then the student will never recieve any education from his educator. Rather, what will happen, the student will teach himself entirely using the same book the teacher is meant to be helping him understand. Teachers are also given the chance to assume the student has learned all the material by the time they get to the exam. Teachers are meant to follow some type of criteria, or in other words, meant to to teach by the book. It is the teachers' responsibility to assure the student understands the read material, not just go off on some assumption. When they go off some assumption, the process of teaching and learning isn't occuring anymore, but rather a perspective of say and do. Teachers need to get more active in the part of actually teaching. Jeff Bliss states,"If you would just get up and teach'em instead of handing them a packet"(1). Not all students learn from the process of individual assessments, some need that extra reach of attention to feel that they have reason for learning this.

What else happens when teachers become lazy is that the teachers become less motivated. Teachers should not lose their motive for teaching because then the students empathize on her emotion. The narrarator in the Passion Project states,"If we recognize a universal feeling like boredom or being loved our mirror neurons return us to...being bored or loved"(7). When teachers lose their motivation, students lose their motivation for trying. The students can pick up on the teacher's vibe. It is most important that the student has their enthusiasm in class or they will not be able to focus. Also when a teacher feels less motivated they are likely to show poor teaching skills. Karina in The Passion Project states that,"Really a lot of teachers think that content is enough. Like it's not enough...I don't see value in it"(13). Knowing the material simply doesn't do enough for the student. Not only is it required for the teacher to know the material, but to be able to express it into the mind of the student for the best understanding. Usually if a teacher is less motivated, they are less likely to show up to class. I remember having a teacher that would never show up. Teachers need to show up. When they don't, the student never gets a full connection with the educator he is given thus never gets the full connection with the content they are expected to know.

When a teacher gets lazy she won't usually pay attention to the classmates as individuals, but as the whole class. Meaning that if a teacher gets upset at one student, they are likely to get upset with the whole class. I have seen situation where a student starts to give a teacher a hard time and the teacher starts giving the other students disrespect. It isn't fair for another student to feel disrespected for something another student did. It shows the good students that they can still receive bad treatment for their cooperation in the class. Teachers also shouldn't view the class as a whole because then the teacher expects the entire class to be at the same pase. Studies show that students that are behind in class are usually behind because they say the teacher goes to fast and doesn't allow anyone to keep up. A student has the right to learn at which ever pase they need. The teacher should not expect their student to be at the same level as the other students just because they don't have the energy to go back.

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