Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Do Student's Care?
On the first day of my student observation, the teacher gave each student their interim grade. I am observing a Pre-Algebra class and the students really seem to not enjoy math at all. Based on their interim grades, most of them were not doing so well in the class. At the end of the class, my cooperating teacher asked me if I had any questions so I asked him if it discourages him to see his students doing poorly in his class. He replied "At first it upset me, but after a while you realize that it's not your fault and some students just don't care". This hit me hard, I just couldn't imagine not caring about my grades, especially in math which is a very important subject. Right as he finished telling me this a student came up to his desk and he asked the student to explain to me why he was failing math. The student replied that he doesn't do anything and I didn't know what to say. When the student came back for his interim grade not only was he failing, but he was failing miserably.... he had a 29% in the class. So what I'm getting at is do student's care anymore? What can be changed to make them care? This is a huge problem that is just going to keep getting worse if nothing changes. I'm very interested to know other people's perspective on this issue, so let me know!
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In my opinion I feel that students sometimes now a days just do not care. I feel these student parents might not just drive them to try and do good in school. Another comment could be made that some students just think school is stupid or that they are way to busy with other activities outside of school. I have to agree that there are some students just do not care, but I do not think that is all the students. This is what makes teaching unique is that you will always have students who try and do worry about their grades. Then you have the other type of student who is done with school within the first week of school and just wants to do nothing. So thats what makes teaching hard is we have to accept that there is always going to be students like that and its never going to change.
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