Thursday, October 14, 2010
Reading Blog #6
I feel that most of the education i have received has been just the facts and information i need to know to do the job, but not so much in preparing my for what the real workforce environment might be like. I feel most classes are like this, where the teacher is in front and is the leader of the class and has everything laid out for you to do assignments. The real world for most people will not be like this, there are many jobs in which you will need to make you own assumptions of how to do the job and it may never be laid out nice and easy for you to complete. However, the classroom environment does teach the fact of respecting the person of authority and how to interact with them politely and professionally. Having scheduled time for students to have classes should help students with time management and being on time to their job, but I feel in most cases there is very little consequences to being late or not showing up at all for a class, so this defeats the structure of good attendance.
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I agree that having the teacher lay everything out for you is nothing like the job is going to be. On the job you'll be expected to think rapidly about problems and solutions. You will have a boss that is in charge of you "the teacher" which is a good simulation, but the boss won't be there to answer all your questions, you'll have to again think on your own about how to solve the problem. Teachers today are geared toward getting students to pass all of the standardized tests and not to really learn the material. As far as attendence goes there isn't really a consequence to being late or not coming to class at all. It seems like teachers today really don't care if you come in late to class. This bothers me, because i know if i was a teacher, if a kid comes into my class a half an hour late, i think i might have a few choice words for them. Now being five or ten minutes late is acceptable once or twice, but if it's everytime thats a bit ridiculous. Students who do this are learning bad habits that have a very good possibility of repeating at their place of employment. I don't think your work would appreciate, you being late by a half an hour ever other day. Don't think you'd have that job to long.
ReplyDeleteIn theory, life is always going to be a "classroom" situation. In your line of work not matter what it may be, there is always going to be a "teacher" and a "student". There is always somebody in control, and it will always be up to them how to handle every situation. I believe that we are getting the best of what our teachers have to offer us. Its up to us to do what we want to do with our lives. There isn't any blame on anyone except on ourselves.
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