What needs to change and hasn’t: the control

Inside a classroom there are many things that are already pre planned before the course stars. The syllabus tells us what content, tasks, projects, etc are going to be developed in the school year. One of the most serious things to take into account before starting classes is to establish the classroom rules and how to manage the class. All of them are establish by the teacher and we can modify them if it is necessary. Until now the teacher plays an important role of the learning process, but the teacher has a role of a very strict man who creates new rules in order to keep students quiet and don’t have behavior problems in the class. This authority the teacher has give him all the power and let him to do everything, leaving students in a very comfortable position where they do not do anything and only listen and repeat and they do not have goals or expectations for the course. This comfort students have can make them passive students who are not worry about their learning. Students are worried only about grades and how to pass the course and it will affect them in the following courses because they did not get and develop the skills required to be in an upper level, and I consider it is what the teachers do not want since the main objective of being a teacher is to make our students to acquire knowledge and make them use it in different areas.

an interesting perspective about education and school below:

Reference:

• Weimer, M.. (2002). Learner-Centered Teaching Five Key Changes to Practice. April 27, 2015, from A Wiley Company website: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~physteach/ArticleArchive/Weimer_excerpt.pdf
• Suli Breaks (December 2, 2012) Why I Hate School But Love Education||Spoken Word (video). Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZmM7zPLyI