There are many factors that can affect the teaching-learning process. These include the community and the environment of the student, the classroom and the individual characteristics of each student. I believe that each of these factors has an equal part in how the classroom functions and how the students learn. The community a child grows up in can greatly affect how they perform in the classroom. An underdeveloped community that is socioeconomically deprived usually has negative effects on a child. Parents tend to have less support in this type of community which leads to more stress for them and puts their children in stressful situations. A low level of cohesion in a community can cause children to form harmful social relationships and if they’re in a poor neighborhood they may not have as many resources available (for both parents and children) causing the children to “get up to no good”. These children tend to be more hyperactive and may have a problem in the classroom because they are not used to being in a supportive environment. Then again school may not be the most supportive of environments either. In a class of twenty five students a child may not get one-on-one time they need with the teacher. A teacher can only do so much when they are by themselves. If a teacher does not have a support system this can cause the teacher stress which much in the same way as a parent without support this is harmful for students. Ideally a strong community and support system
Poverty has a great impact on children school lives because they usually face with the overwhelming challenge in their families that is a factor impact on children’s school behaviors and performance. Girls will tend to abuse, while boys may damage in other aspects such as curiosity, learning, and memory. When I read the chapter two of the book, Teaching with Poverty in Mind written by Eric Jensen, I completely agree with him that “A child who comes from a stressful home environment tends to channel that stress into disruptive behavior at school and be less able to develop a healthy social and academic life” (Jensen, 2009, n.p.). In this book, he reported, low-income children “are linked to over 50 percent of all
The most important factor affecting student learning is the teacher. If the teacher is ineffective, students will achieve inadequate progress academically. Effective teaching and learning cannot take place in a poorly managed classroom. If students are disorderly and disrespectful, with no apparent rules and procedures to guide behavior, chaos becomes the norm. Teachers struggle to teach, and students will learn much less than they should. http://behaviourmanagementreport.weebly.com/
This is due to several factors. Engle and Black explain, “children growing up in poverty experience “double jeopardy.” Not only are they directly exposed to risks in their homes and communities, including illnesses, crowding and family stress, lack of psychosocial stimulation, and limited resources, but they often experience more serious consequences to risks than children from higher income families” (3). Children in poverty tend to live in low income areas which have high rates of crime and very few academic opportunities. Schools in these low income areas as well are underfunded, poorly staffed, and do not have the resources to provide a good quality education. Engle and Black note a solution that has worked, which are programs that sponsor poor families that live in low income areas, and move them to higher income areas. Children who move to higher income areas made significant progress on their academics, and became more confident in their ability to succeed. Karl Marx’s conflict theory argues that individuals of different social classes have an unequal amount of resources, and those that have more resources, the upper class, exploit those who have less (Krogen 16). Conflict theory can explain the educational and lifestyle disparity
With poverty comes a certain attitude, in higher up communities the children and parents are more respectful towards their teacher, education itself is respected; however, in poverty stricken areas the children are at home alone, or running the streets, the parents are usually too busy working to worry about how their child is doing in school. Districts also have the same attitude, schools in upper class neighborhoods have the essentials; such as, running hot water in the gymnasium, and showers that actually work, new books and just the overall approach to the education, of its students is superior. Compared to that of lower class, neighborhoods the essentials are overlooked for instance, classrooms are in need of repair, as well as the bathrooms and gymnasiums. Their books are torn, and outdated, and their approach to education has been to just make it through the
When a child’s early experiences are chaotic and one or both parents are absent these causes the brain to become stressed and make the child feel insecure. The NCCP states, “Many children whose mothers suffer from depression lack healthy brain development” (NCCP). This can lead the child to have trouble connecting with classmates and lack of social skills. The article also mentions, “Daily interaction plays an important role in a child’s emotional and mental development” (NCCP). Positive interactions not only with classmates but also parents or adults can also help a child become more secure of themselves and allow them to ambition greater things than that of their parents. Overall, relationships between teachers and students are important. Poverty is a factor to the lack of social skills in children because the lack of positive role models in the
The children who live in poverty tend to do worse in school than other students. When they are in school and at home they are not concerned about what the teacher is teaching but about where their next meal is coming from. They do not get the help they need at home because their parents are at work and they have to take care of their siblings. If the child has a learning disability they do not get the proper help or even know about it because they do not have the money to get someone who can teach the child how to perform well with this disability. . They will get placed in a classroom where instead of the teacher teaching them, they call them stupid and don 't teach them anything. They also tend to hate the teacher because they are downgrading them.In the movie freedom writers it tells the story of a school who had a class just for underprivileged children. They hated the teacher when she came because they felt like she was just like they other teachers. When they saw that she actually cared they began to listen to what she was teaching. The schools they attend are low funded school. These schools underpaid teachers and make them feel like they don 't have to teach to their full potential. They books the children receive are torn, have missing pages, and are so old they have outdated information.
Education does not just take place in schools. Classrooms are places where many forms of discourses come together. Students and teachers with various forms of knowledge and ways of communicating interact together and unfortunately some ways of knowing and communicating hold more value than others. Sometimes researcher should stop looking at the bigger picture; capitalist economies and the true nature of society should become more of a focus in education research. You cannot hope to understand why students from lower socio economic areas do poorly compared to students whose parents are more affluent unless more is done to understand the prior.
Richer areas have better schools, smaller classes, and have a high level of education. Teachers make more money, so the rich areas have better teachers. Economic inequality is one of the causes of those disparities. Poor students living in poor areas are behind in verbal memory, vocabulary, math and reading. Some children came in the United States without knowing how to speak English. Those immigrant students need a tutor when they attend school. Rich kids’ parents can pay tutor to help their kids, but poor kids’ parents cannot. In public schools, students are getting low education, which does not allow other student to extend their capacity. Being born into a social class, especially the lower class can affect youths’ lives chances, including what kind of education they can get, the work they can have or even how long they will live. This can be classified as an impact of economic inequality.
Children who live in areas of concentrated poverty never fare well. They often have low graduation rates and deal with constant violence. What happens to neighborhoods also happens to schools. Children succeed when their parents are capable of providing for them. When parents are unable to afford their own neighborhood advantages, their children start seeing the difference along racial and social barriers and embody it.
Often a specific area speaks volumes about a community, and there is a correlation present between whether the school consists of students who strive for academics or not. If an individual purchases a dwelling in a low income area, often children within that community are more focused on the environment around them rather than school. This means that the child will lack in demonstrating their full potential, as external factors such as gangs and substance abuse can be a threat to development. This is often due to the cycle of poverty, which can only be broken if the individual is educated enough to move forward with a job, help with finances and etc., Discrimination be also be an effect on the development as depending on negative stereotypes such as an individual of Asian descent do well in mathematics, there might be expectations that are not met, which later impacts the individuals self-worth. It would be of benefit if the author had included further research if there is an exact link to standardized test scores and low income areas. The author could have used the Fraser mustard report, which states that early childhood experiences have a powerful effect on development of children’s physical, emotional abilities, and influence intellectual development. A child’s living environment may expose them to poverty, thus causing malnourishment. Emotional damage can be caused by having a low sense of self-worth if they believe their family cannot break the cycle they are living in, and be in constant state of stress affecting their focus in school. Thus, standardized testing can be useful to assess if an area may or may not be suitable for the well-being of a child’s
You and your team members (of which you made sure were diverse), spent a month closely observing these families, both outside and inside the home, for several hours at a time. Through your methods, I was able to learn a few interesting things. I’ll give a few. Children tend to attend schools that fit their socio-economic arrangements. For example, Lower Richmond, a school located in the city of a poor neighborhood, lacks things such as teaching supplies, qualified teachers, and parent participation. Students also tend to perform below grade level. In contrast, Swan School, which is located in the suburbs, has a bigger facility, access to better supplies, and more parent participation. The students there also tend to perform at grade level or higher. Clearly, far more effort is being put into one over the other. Another thing I learned (to elaborate from earlier) was the use of language differences between the middle and working classes. Middle class children were able to exchange dialogue with their parents and other adults, even in playful ways, but working class children were expected to only comply, when given a directive. Without your method, and your study, I would not have stopped to ask myself about these things, and compare them to my life, so I think it was appropriately
My personal belief is that teaching is not just the profession of spitting out information to students that they in turn regurgitate to me. I think that teaching is a process of life learning for these students. I believe there are four extremely important factors that distinguish a well-disciplined class from others. They include the following factors: classroom environment, expectations and procedures, student-teacher relationships, and active learning.
Children who live in large cities and cannot afford to go to private schools often will get passed along throughout the course of their education, even if they had not learned the material they needed to. These inner-city public schools are the root cause of why so many people in the U.S. live in poverty and struggle every day. These schools are overcrowded and understaffed, due to this, children fall behind and then do not get the opportunity to catch back up. These schools do not give children the tools they need to graduate or be successful in life. The school systems are not doing anything to improve their success rate either, they just continue to make new standardized tests and not teach the children who are going to be taking those tests.
The environment a child in poverty lives in is a huge factor in that may affect their academic success. Children from low income families tend to live in low-income neighborhoods that are often associated with high crime rates, high concentration, and few opportunities for academic socialization (Engle, Patrice, and Black 5). These neighborhoods have health risks,
When children are put into educational facilities, they get a chance to connect and surround themselves with others of the same age group. Schools can also have significant influence on a person’s individuality as well as peer groups, which influence a student’s academic integrity greatly. A student will not perform well no matter what the case is, if there is negative influence from his peers and their school environment. They affect a person’s attitude, personality in a positive or negative manner.