During my Intro to Teaching Class I have been exposed to some major problems facing schools today, especially urban schools. I have designed this blog to receive input and opinions on today's education.
The first issue I want to address is:
How do you think inner-city school teachers can effectively teach their students while creating a safe environment?
This includes handling students with anger problems, learning disabilities, bullying tendencies, etc.
What practical applications would you suggest?
I believe the best way to create a safe learning environment is for the school to create partnerships with community programs. Community programs can do a variety of things such as help kids who are having anger problems, and teaching bullies positive ways to interact with their peers. Also, counselors and other professionals that work for community programs are often better trained to deal with these issues than teachers are. Then once a safe learning environment is created, it will be easier for the teacher to teach the students.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I think first the teachers and principals need to stop being afraid of the students. Granted the students might bring a gun to school or whatever. I'm not talking about that. Teachers and Adminstrators are afraid of making students mind. The students tend to rule the schools, especially in the hallways while teachers hide in their classrooms. Also, the schools need to give students classes they actually will need, such as anger management or budgeting or relationship building. We had tons of these kinds of lessons and classes (not just a guest speaker on it) and it really helped. Schools don't have time to teach life skills anymore because they have to pass those dog-on achievement tests...standards, standards, standards...let's try to cram as much nonsense knowledge down the throat of students who could care less and give them another math and another english and take away any thought of them actually learning something they need in life. We'll pass the OAT and have idiots for citizens...of course that is just my opinion, so...
ReplyDeleteAgain this comes from my experience teaching in the inner-city, My students began to respond to me after I made an effort to truly get to know them and their culture. I would call home and talk to their parents not only when the student did something bad, but also when they did something well. I had students eat lunch with me to catch up on work. You would be surprised how many sixth graders wanted to eat with me still!
ReplyDeletePosted by Julie Miller