Education Reform

I personally think school is a place where students get their common sense/basic knowledge from. Nowadays, most of students take the fact of getting higher education very granted. However, even now, not everyone who's graduating from high school is going to go into college. If a person starts working right after their high school graduation, or if they drop out, high school would be the last education he/she gets in their lives. Throughout their lives, they will learn something new, but the education would only come from physical experiences. As an educator, our goal would be to let our students realize what they like and what they don't like. That's where the hands-on lessons come into the place. Unless students actually have a chance to feel what it is like to do something, they'll never figure out if they like it or not. Not every occupation just match up with the subjects that we have in schools. However, studying certain subjects give the students feel for what they would enjoy. Covering core contents will give all of students (ones who will be going into the college and ones who are planning on working after high school) somewhat of an idea of what they would enjoy doing.

What I've found from teaching this semester is that students are extremely lazy and getting them excited about the topic, motivating students to actually do some work in class and getting them to think about life beyond high school is one of the most important task of the teacher. When students can relate anything they learn in class to something in their daily lives, the students will be interested. Even a simple thing like classification, when I asked students how they sort music on their iPod or how they sort their clothes, they were excited to tell me their stories. It's hard to draw every lesson relevant to the students' lives, but every now and then students need that to engage themselves into the learning.