My Favorite Students

Everyone should be treated fairly and respected with race or gender having nothing to do with how you approach a human being. Yet, in urban areas across the country there are many teachers who cannot relate with the struggles their students face. Cannot relate with the living environment students from all racial backgrounds are coming from. For example, when I was in the Fourth Grade there was a white teacher, she was genuinely nice and tried her very best with the classroom or generally all minority background. The problem was that she couldn’t relate to us in most aspects of our living outside the school. She gave us a list of things we needed for the classroom in which the parents couldn’t afford. None of the students seemed to connect with her because the

In this video, I saw how the third grader kids’ behaviors change drastically towards the brown-eye color and blue-eye color classmates. I notice that it is up to an authoritarian figure in their life to remodel the kids’ entire view with regards to others based on their differences. In one of the segments, there was a blue-eyed child that said he felt better than they brown eye kids and smarter because that is what Mrs. Elliot, the teacher, had told them at the beginning of the class. He attitude changes significantly, he became rude and harsh. This lesson had turned the kids against the brown eye children making them to discriminating them and having prejudice against their classmates even though they have known each other probably for

The number of students attending the University of Alabama has reached a new high of 37,100. That number is a 2.4% increase from 2014 (uanews.ua.edu). As the number of students is predicted only to increase in the years to come, the University must reflect on the housing options for these 37,100 students. Freshman students required to live on campus face a difficult situation--lack of housing. With that being said, the best and most efficient way to cope with the ever growing population is to allow freshmen to live off campus, and build more apartments around campus to allow thousands of more students to have places to live in the future.

be at an educational disadvantage compared to the students attending the predominantly white suburban schools. (Batts, 2012).

It is frowned upon if you don’t “friend” the popular and well achieving students; those with the party connections or those excellent athletes winning awards. Being the average or one without the “feeds” of style, conversation and wealth can put you at a disadvantage. Or does it? If the average one without the constant pressure to excel and win can put those skills to work on self fulfilling goals. Goals that are set by myself - not my parents, educators or community.

Learning can be difficult, especially in a class like history, but lucky for me my 7th , 10th , and 12th grade teacher made history one of my favorite classes. Coach Fowler is the best teacher and coach that I have ever had. He really knew how to make class fun and keep me focused. He was also my football Coach, which also resulted in me wanting to do good and act right in his classroom. He knew when to joke, and he also knew when to take things serious. Having a teacher and also a football coach that you look up to and respect really encourages you to do good and not let him down.

We, the students of the Metro Early College High School, in order to promote the conditions of our peers and provide prosperity to our community, both as students and citizens, for the continuity of our school and for the classmen to come do establish this as the constitution of the Student Council of the Metro Early College High School.

Eighty percent’s of transfer students coming to LIM College have to go to admissions for credit re-evaluation at least three times before graduation. Due to the fact that admissions don’t pay close attention to course descriptions and transfer credit with other colleges that LIM College are partners with. Many transfer students have problems to graduate on time as they were planning. However, if admission would follow the transfer credit policy, all full time transfer students should be able to graduate after two years from transferring. Study has shown that many students quit school after transferring to a different college because of the credit requirement. However, many colleges, including LIM College, have a maximum amount of transfer credit allowed (Admissions, 2014). Students should find out course transferability before enrolling and also check that the courses will total toward general and upper level courses. Although, LIM College has a maximum transfer credit requirement, transferring the right credit with help students be on the right track and graduate faster.

This question has always been part of my daily thinking since I was in middle school. I grew up in Mexico, so I went to Mexican schools until third semester of college, before moving to California. Since I was a kid, when I was in elementary school, I could see how teachers treated in a different way a student from another. It was common to see favoritism, more than the one I can see here working for the school district here in Long Beach. Sadly, since the beginning of the scholar year, some of my classmates were more focus to gain the teacher’s trust or her/his love rather than trying to learn and pay attention to classes. At the same time, most teachers would judge a kid from its family background.

To begin, teachers should not have favorites. Secondly, no one should be able to be a bully and get away with it. Lastly the teachers should always check to make sure all of the class is there.

This article may be very effective for the intended audience because it brings attention to the issues that are in the classroom. Teachers who are bias towards a select group of students is definitely a problem in classrooms and this article further gives the reader an example for a more understanding of this

Hi Gemechu, I really appreciate your comment, and I do not want to start without saying thank you for sharing us this best advice. As I realized from your comment, it is better not to judge a person before you really know his or her attitude and personality. Sometimes we all rush and judge a person just without a reasons and finally when we get close to them, they are totally different. I know the reason that made you to make the self-serving bias error is because you did not expect the tattoos, earrings, and long hairs from one teacher. But, the good thing is you already got a lesson from that error, and you will not make an error to judge for a person.

The mass majority of individuals past the age of thirty seem to trivialize problems that a plethora of American youth suffer from today. Simply put, the French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry describes it best in his book, The Little Prince, in the quote, “All grown-ups were once children…but only few of them remember it.” We are inordinately exhausted from classes and extracurricular activities that promise college appeal, we are emotionally inept from the expectations of our family’s and peers, and we are despondent from the inability to caste away anxiety filled doubt at a future that seems implausible. My greatest contribution to my school and my community is my dedication to establish compassion and comfort for an improved quality of life. The known establishment of my human gifts to my region came about from my own experiences that caused a realization that various students in my community feel outcasted by our society. By creating a persona that promotes nondiscriminatory listening while also creating three clubs that perform as a safe space, I believe my greatest attribute to my small town of Forest City will endure the hardships of time.

Choosing a favorite teacher is fairly difficult when one puts into account all the types of teachers they have known, all of them are important. Teachers are the second most important people in our lives, right after our parents. Teachers are persuasive and have the power to build a child up from an immature student to become a responsible adult; or they can completely and utterly crush a students hopes and dreams.

Just as braking confidentiality is inappropriate so is teacher bias and discrimination. It is suppose to be that “school is the only institution that can counter the accidents of birth, guarantee of opportunity and provide objective and fair ways to select and train talented individuals” (Goodlad, Sirotnik & Sober,1990). However, discrimination towards students takes place all the time. Teachers often discriminate against males and females, expecting different things from both. “Research over the last decade has shown that males and females have different classroom experiences