An experience that changed my views on education was my high school at this “milestone in life” everybody moved on to the next grade and i also realize that almost everybody graduated even the ones that did not show up to class and missed school for days so i feel like in school to they put so much pressure on you to be perfect not caring about mental health and then leave you very stressed in the regards to living up to the idea of being the perfect “A” student when the reality of it is if you do the bare minimum to past your gonna move on to the next level just like the person who went all out and got like 99 plus average. I feel like back in high school the teachers would make you feel so bad if you did the bare minimum to pass when you technically did your job you passed right? Given this information that I figured out for myself I always maintained a 83- 85 average to get the honor roll cause I figured out that’s where the bare minimum requirements were if I wanted to have an okay looking transcript for colleges. The reality of the education system is that you have to find a way to work and interpret assignments in your own way while trying to keep a good mental health. You will be fine because I feel like if your mental health is not there you won’t learn anything.
Views on Education Failing at Teaching
I sort of feel like the teacher’s goal isn’t to help or teach the students anything, they just want them to memorize things and know how to do it but not know why they are doing it. There are many teachers who just want themselves to look better, showing their superiors how good of a teacher they are. Taking an education job because it’s a job not because they are helping kids grow and learn. I remember doing the problems but not knowing how to explain it back to the teacher or other students who needed help and the teacher would say that it was okay as long as I had the right answer. I remember whenever the principal and superintendent would go to the classrooms, teachers would tell the students to behave because their bosses were coming to observe the classroom. The teachers would completely change how they would speak or react to the students, but once they’re bosses are gone they go back to how they usually act.
The education system fails to realize that not every kid is at the same pace or learns the same way and if they don’t understand, they’re left behind in the classrooms, left behind a grade, or put into special education and the attention is taken off the students who really need the extra attention. There are some children that need to be taught a different way and some ways are as simple as rewording what the teacher says but instead of doing that the teacher thinks that the kid isn’t trying hard enough and that their teaching is perfect because other students understand it.
An experience that changed my views on education
An experience that changed my views on education was in highschool. It was when I looked at other people’s grades in school and the effect it had on their classes they took and it compared to mine. I was always a decent student throughout highschool I was like a B average student but I had friends who had honors classes. When I saw the work they were doing versus mine. I realized that they were doing the same work as everyone else just a little faster pace and it made no sense to be in an honors class if I’m just doing the same work. I had a few of these classes in highschool but I stopped doing the work so I can be put in regular classes because the only thing different was the Time they had to do the work and what they had to do. If it was ela instead of 11 grade English they would go to 12 grade English which when I got there realized is not very different to what we were doing before it was how we were applying the skills that changed.
The part about how grades changed my views on education was how easy it was to get B average. At school. It changed the work I did and how I did it. The main way it changed my mind was my process on how to get good grades. I originally got good grades by doing a lot of work and always finishing it fast. But in 11 grade I realized the stress I was putting on myself completing all the assignments made no sense. I changed my mind and started to think as long as I get work done and time and I did it right I would get better grades and I did. I also started to learn faster when I wasn’t thinking about the work that was to be done that day or the next.
