An experience in my life that changed my view on education is when I realized that most teachers don’t care about educating students. I have many experiences with teachers that don’t care about educating and just care about working. The problem that I see with many teachers that I have seen is that they don’t have a passion for teaching and helping their students benefit in the long run. The main example I will be using for this is my 9th-grade teacher who decided that her ego was too big to help us all learn. Some of the things she did that blocked our learning in her class were rushing. She kept going through slides and didn’t allow anyone to raise their hands for any question. She kept calling on people even when they didn’t have the answer. This example truly showed me how many teachers don’t care about the students. Even after all that the entire class tried to explain to the principal that the way she was teaching influenced us to not learn anything in that class but the only thing he toiled us to do was to pay more attention. That is the main experience of my life that changed my view of education and the educational system.
Teaching is more than just classes and homework. It’s more about giving the students you are teaching information and skills that will help benefit them later in life. It’s about allowing people to grow their minds so they can adapt to today’s world and lead a career path that will hopefully change the world
Being in ESL
Ever since I was a child I was always in ESL (English Second Language). Since I was always in ESL, I struggled with keeping up with the rest of my class. I always spoke Spanish at home and as a kid that messed up my vocabulary and grammar but even with that, I thought I didn’t need the class. even my ESL teachers said that I didn’t need the class. Eventually, once I got to a certain age, I realized that I need the class and when I came to that realization, I started to compare the regular classes to my ESL classes. when I realized in 8th grade, I compared things like the books we were reading. in regular classes, they had large hardcover books while in our class we had a small paper book. My experiences with ESL didn’t help me. all it did was make it harder for me once I got to high school and didn’t have ESL. I think that the education that America gives isn’t sufficient for students that speak different languages at home. All the education that they currently give does it limit the student to what they know when ESL isn’t accessible to them. My personal experience went from reading small 50-page books to hard-cover 350-page books. It was up to 9th grade that I finally differentiated there, their and they’re an even today I still confuse them. I believe that students in ESL do not get equal education compared to students in regular classes.
