Students have a
bad reputation these days.
Too many
teachers, when asked to name the big obstacle to good teaching, they will say,
"My students." They will describe their students as either passive
and disengaged from the learning process or actively hostile to it.
If you press
these teachers to explain how students got this way, you often hear the same
diagnoses that are popular : public education fails to teach youngsters the
basics; TV creates people with short attention spans who want to be entertained
rather than taught; family breakdown leaves children without a readiness to
learn and without basic values; etc.
Too many
teachers view their charges with thinly veiled hostility and too many of them
want to blame their problems on factors that are external to education or are
located somewhere.
Maybe, too many
teachers have fear to accept their responsibility, cause’ it is easy to blame
the context before watching our mistakes in the classrooms, what can we do?...
If we are to become teachers of this sort, our first need is
not for new techniques, although there are methods of active listening that are
worth learning. But our first need is for a more generous diagnosis of our
students' concerns, a diagnosis that will help us understand why our pedagogy
needs to be less judgmental and punitive, and more compassionate and evocative.
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