The Teaching Process
In my newest blog, I have been assigned by one of my teachers to do write about “how to teach what needs to be taught in college” and the different ways that we should be teaching.
I believe that people have slowly been evolving the way we teach each different generation of students. Making things easier for each generation, doing less and less homework. Since I came from a small school, I didn’t have to do much homework, because most of the things that my teachers taught me were general, broad, subjects.
In college, I really learned how to study and get myself together and organized. Taking a couple hours out of my day, a few days of the week to get my homework done. In order for people to get their homework and projects done they need to communicate. When I say communicate, I mean tell either their partners, or themselves that it needs to be done and not put off for later.
Now, do I think that people should change the way they teach subjects in school. Yes and no. Yes because some of the schools are outdated and sometimes are understaffed. Why do I say the people shouldn’t change their teaching habits? It’s been working for hundreds of years and we haven’t really had many problems. Yeah, sure, online classes work, but how much do you really get out of them? Not real life experience. A person can finish that class in two days if they tried hard enough.
The world is evolving and everything is much faster, but people cannot learn algebra, physics, accounting, or any other major piece of knowledge in days, or months. It takes years for a person to learn those major things. This is why Americans have prospered. They are challenged everyday to do better. That’s why we should keep forging along the educated path, and keep coming up with new ideas, putting them into textbooks and teach people about them. Teachers are preparing students for the future. Teachers cannot predict the future, or the jobs of the future. Teachers could be preparing you for jobs that haven’t even been invented.
Teachers’ jobs are hard enough without trying to predict the future. If we just keep doing things the way that they should be we’ll be fine and prosper like many other countries. Until next time, remember to do your homework, it’s the easiest way to get good grades.
Until next time, remember that Carlos Gomez is now a Brewer, so Twins fans can now sleep soundly.
Interesting stuff. I never thought about keeping teaching styles the same while teaching new things until you said that. Maybe give a couple of examples on teaching skills, and also specific skills that need to be taught in school?
ReplyDeleteThis surely made me look at this idea from a different perspective. I agree that things are changing within the education world, but I would argue that it isn't necessarily a bad thing. Change is something that will constantly be happening, and right now especially with technology, things are changing rapidly.
ReplyDeleteThis brought me a whole new prospective of learning and some of the things, well most of them are true, and I totally agree with what you are saying. We live in a world of change, and I definitely think that online classes are retarded. Maybe it's because I've never took online classes but it looks and sounds too easy to do...Anyways good paper or blog!
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