©2019 Yggdr4zill
“My core educational belief is that everyone has their learning style, and teachers need to try their hardest to adapt and give students the ability to learn, regardless on how they do so.”
So for me, the reason I feel this way is because I have had my own personal experiences when teachers weren’t able to teach me the way that I needed to be taught. As everyone knows, Common Core came into play across the nation. For me, it didn’t affect me too much in English and Science, but my Math grade would never come above a C. Common Core is supposed to have about five different ways of being taught math. In a nutshell, this seems like a great concept and it should have worked out. Too bad for us though is that teachers would only be able to really understand one way, and could only take that into their classrooms. So, if you didn’t understand that one way, well.
I went from being an A student in Math to a C student. No matter what I did I couldn’t bring it up any higher. Even getting tutoring, getting help from friends, studying more than should be needed, my grades weren’t that great. Sometimes I would be lucky to get a B on a test. I think there was one time I got an A.
But for me, one thing that I remember during my senior year in high school is that there was this one math teacher I had, and I was gone for a swim meet so I had to make up a test. I didn’t understand it, so basically she would kind of guide me along (you know, have to make quotas), and I finally asked her why we has to do it this way. I don’t understand it this way, why do we do it this specific way? Her reply to me was, “we just do”.
I think that’s the problem we are now experiencing as a society. We don’t understand when to stop something because it is not working. The United States is falling behind greatly in education, we have been for years. We need to adapt to our students to help them in the best way possible. They need to be able to succeed, and actually succeed. Not just fill quotas in a book for state legislators.
So for me, my core belief is still the same. We need to help students the best way possible, but even more so now. We are falling behind, and we are becoming a disgrace to every other nation out there. That’s not fair for our students to have to experience, especially when we can do something to fix it. So instead of making a student feel dumb about asking a very honest question, let’s guide them along a better path, or at least find a different route so they can understand what they’re doing and do the task proficiently.
This is why I want to teach. I want to be a voice for students when people say “they are too young to have a voice”. Well, I’m old enough, my peers are old enough, we are all able to start making a stand and giving our young students voices when people who are older try to silence them. I want to make a difference in my community, to the younger generations, so they can make greater differences when they’re my age. I want to see the United States become the American Dream that it once was. I want my future students to see the beauty in the United States. I want to teach because I want to make a difference and leave a mark on the future.
Honestly, my teacher thought I might have been making a joke out of the whole thing, but it was an honest question.
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