Teaching shouldn't be about making students memorize and conform. All students and their
needs are unique and as such all students require different methods of teaching
to learn and succeed to their full potential. The school must be a comfortable
and safe place for students to be able to learn properly. If the students don’t feel
safe and do not trust their teachers a connection cannot be made. If a true
connection is not made the student will never truly retain and develop
knowledge. Schooling also needs to have structure and rules. Students cannot be
allowed to do what they want if it interferes with other students learning.
Teachers must find the perfect balance between comfort and caring, and
structure and discipline.
Students
must also be given the chance to grow. This can be done in many ways. Students
can learn from their mistakes, and should be allowed to. To keep this from
students by never failing them is to condemn them and disadvantage them in the
future. Students need encouragement and time to succeed. This is done when we
use assessment for learning more often than assessment of learning. Students
must be given fair opportunity to grow and learn before they are evaluated by requirement.
The true goal of education is to prepare students for the real world; how to
begin life away from what they know; how to succeed. To do this the education
program needs to be changed and this needs to begin with the individual
teachers and programs.
Education of our youth should not fall on the shoulders of our teachers alone. Education is a team effort with three main players: teacher, student and parent. Although some team members have more important roles all three members are necessary to fully educate and to foster growth. The teacher's responsibilities should be shared with the students and parents. Students should be responsible and accountable for their own education and parents should be monitoring this and helping the team determine what needs to change in to provide the student with the best education possible.
Students need to assume a more active role in education. They need to be a part of assessment from beginning to end. This includes pre-assessment to help the teacher determine where the class is at, self-assessment to determine what still needs to be learned in the middle of term and evaluation at the end of term to determine if all goals have been met. Assessment proves what a student has learned and feedback helps the student to continue learning. Students should also play an active role in helping to collect, present and organize their evidence of learning. Students need to see evidence of learning to recognize that they have succeeded. Students should be a direct part of this process so they know they are learning and they can be held accountable for their own learning.
Teachers should also be able to depend on the other professionals in their lives to help education our youth. The education of youth benefits the community as a whole. Teaching teams and sharing circles of teachers and professionals alike should be developed to help share and develop new ideas for education. When we work together as a team we demonstrate the power and success teamwork has, further proving that the education team of teacher, student and parent works. But both of these ideas are relatively new, and for them to work and be recognized we need to implement the team strategy as soon as possible. Although it will take more work at first it will benefit all involved in the long run. We as teachers need to create these teams as soon as possible.
Education of our youth should not fall on the shoulders of our teachers alone. Education is a team effort with three main players: teacher, student and parent. Although some team members have more important roles all three members are necessary to fully educate and to foster growth. The teacher's responsibilities should be shared with the students and parents. Students should be responsible and accountable for their own education and parents should be monitoring this and helping the team determine what needs to change in to provide the student with the best education possible.
Students need to assume a more active role in education. They need to be a part of assessment from beginning to end. This includes pre-assessment to help the teacher determine where the class is at, self-assessment to determine what still needs to be learned in the middle of term and evaluation at the end of term to determine if all goals have been met. Assessment proves what a student has learned and feedback helps the student to continue learning. Students should also play an active role in helping to collect, present and organize their evidence of learning. Students need to see evidence of learning to recognize that they have succeeded. Students should be a direct part of this process so they know they are learning and they can be held accountable for their own learning.
Teachers should also be able to depend on the other professionals in their lives to help education our youth. The education of youth benefits the community as a whole. Teaching teams and sharing circles of teachers and professionals alike should be developed to help share and develop new ideas for education. When we work together as a team we demonstrate the power and success teamwork has, further proving that the education team of teacher, student and parent works. But both of these ideas are relatively new, and for them to work and be recognized we need to implement the team strategy as soon as possible. Although it will take more work at first it will benefit all involved in the long run. We as teachers need to create these teams as soon as possible.
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