Topic: Why can’t schools let students choose what they want to learn before they reach college?
K- Know:
- It may be best for them to learn unfamiliar things in case they’re unsure what to do in college.
- Most students find school boring because they don’t want to learn things they feel they don’t need in their future.
- Those courses that are useless are the main requirements needed to graduate.
- Some students in college have no background knowledge on what they are majoring in before reaching higher education.
W- Want:
- Why are the extravagant, hard to learn, and useless classes required in some school’s education systems?
- Why can’t we just learn about what we want followed by what we need in life?
- Why wait until college when we have all these years of learning in school to take advantage of beginning our desired professions?
- How come we can’t vote for what we want to learn like we do as a country politically?
L- Learned:
- Students would have more motivation to learn and come to school if they were given the opportunity to choose their own classes instead of being required to take certain classes in order to graduate.
- Students have different minds and different interests, so learning the same curriculum won’t be for everyone.
- Too many students are failing classes that they should never had to take in the first place.
- When students can apply their knowledge learned in high school classes to their real life, that is a successful outcome.
+ – Still want to know:
- What does the education system has to say about why we learn so much things that are useless to some of us?
- How do the teachers feel about this? Because it shouldn’t only students dwelling on this topic.
- How much longer will the system bore our minds out with some of the useless things they are teaching us?
Darien, your research topic is provocative, and it looks like this is going to be an interesting research topic for you. Your response to the assignment is excellent, and I’m looking forward to reading your paper!