When
was the last time you walked through the halls of a high school? Not too many
of us if we are 25 and older. I can say for the adults who have children know
what it is like. With the K-12 curriculum that we have now it seems almost
difficult for all of the next generation to pass or go to college there is that
many few who do. For the students that begin their journey they set themselves
up for a repeated process for 12 year, getting up super early to sit in a class
room for so many hours to get up the next day and do it again. School is so
easy for K-7 because you’re just learning all of your basic stuff like math
English science and etc. but soon as you step though the high school doors it
is a different story.
Student are all excited for the first day as a freshman because it’s a new
school, new environment, new people, time to discover themselves. But what they
don’t realize is how much work they need to put in to succeed in through 9-12.
You start to see students fall of typically after their 10th grade
year. The reason why I state this is because I’ve been through the process. The
school curriculum is way to difficult, as it should be, but it shouldn’t be so
hard to where it is boring to the student and there grades are dropping off.
It’s the same routine for them to be sitting in a class for 45min for 7 periods
5 days a week, and usually what is happening in the class room is the teacher
teaching and explaining stuff and students falling asleep, or not grasping the
full lesson.
With the way this basic curriculum is in high school it
was a set up for failure with our generation. A lot of the young adults that
are in this 21st century like to have things given to them and not
work hard to earn whatever it is they want. The more students that drop out of
school will more than likely not be successful. What causes the students in high
school to lose focus and dropout of school or fail? According to the
National Center of Educational Statistics website in 2011 the USA, 7 percent of
registered students drop out or fail high school. With this being said something needs to change to
where the current students in high school are guided correctly through there high
school. The most difficult class to be taking in high school is math, now on a
personal I know I’m not the only one out there who had problems with math. The issue
that I would address is that we don’t have teachers on a daily bases who are
willing to help(pretty much hold or hand through it) but there is no problem with
that because some students need that, and isn’t the point of being a teacher is
wanting to see our students want to succeed.
The
way I think the curriculum should change is that we start from scratch and
rebuild. The K-6 should be taught the same with the basic learning things like your
English, math, history, and science. Now getting to the 7-12 we should have a
guidance teacher, one that can connect with the student on a basis showing that
they care about your future and start your basic ed. Plan but not making it difficult
to where the students turn away the whole point here is to make sure there
having fun and they stay engaged with their schooling. A successful student is
a happy student, the guidance teacher should have their own class room with the
students to stay in communication with him/her students and always have an open
door to talk or help with their education. The goal is to have an always
positive teacher and never be negative. Because majority of the teachers out
there can be negative and give up on the student.
The guidance we want
is to never give up on their students and always push for the best. The teaching
ways that should be applied is to be extremely active with their students at
all times so they are grasping the knowledge being given. Now with that being
said I also believe that this teacher should have a quiz at the end of the day
and graded on spot and also does not affect their grade to make sure they
understood what they had learned, if the students were to fail the quiz then
the teacher would go over what they didn’t understand and have them retest.
At the end of each
day we want to make sure we are producing success and not having the students
going home and feeling frustrated and thinking there stupid and there never
going to understand. It would be good to see having a student going home and
telling their parent that they had a good day and there learning so much. One
thing that should be kept in the school curriculum is soon has the student reaches
the 11 grade they start exploring what route they want to take when the
graduate and start looking into what they really want to do, because when your high
school you don’t know what you want to do with your life all there worrying
about is passing class and looking for the next best thing. So the senior
project is a great thing to have because it sets the student up to be more
engaged on what they want to do as a career. And in the senior year of high
school it should be more focused on career training and providing them the help
with help with the career they want right out of high school. With the guidance
teacher they should provide contacts and links to help them get that opportunity.
By this point the guidance
teacher would have established a relationship with their students. The curriculum
would be such a great experience for the students because all they would need
to know is the basic education and focus more on what they want to do with their
life instead of feeding a bunch of knowledge that half of it won’t be applied
to the real world anyways, I would want to see it be more or a career based
schooling and training more than anything
With this
process it would highly benefit every student out there because it would give
them a head start to life. And it would be having them enjoying what they are
doing instead of dreading what’s going on. Dreams do come true, and it starts
in the class room we need more positive attitudes out there instead of neglecting
ones. I want to see high graduation rates, high transfer rates, just success
around. But it needs to be changed at the high school level, and at the rate it
is going not to many are going to be successful and more and more are going to
drop out or fail school. Think about it this is going to be the generation that
will be taking care of us, we don’t want bums we want productive people.
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