Essay about Teachers and Students

Teachers are one of the major problems of the education system.They are crucial to the student 's performance and their learning process. The Department of Education has found that " teachers are the most important factor in determining student achievement."(U.S. Department of Education) This is true, since teachers are the ones that teach students the academics that they will need in the future. It 's the teacher 's responsibility to get their students ready with the material that they will need. Correspondingly teachers are clearly one of the greatest factors in the quality of education received by students.

Much of what I have learned regarding taking consideration and educating of young children has been directed to me by women; with this being the situation whether a male has an effect on the way a child learns or creates can be addressed. Should a male be rehearsing the same teaching methods as women are then does the sexual orientation of the teacher really have any kind of effect on how the child responds to the teacher and in turn how the child learns. Why primary school teaching has been labelled as a typically female profession is likewise something that interests me. Can anyone explain why a female would generally be viewed as more suited to a job than a male like myself? Is it true that this is just on the grounds that women are the child bearers, or is it as an aftereffect of gender stereotyping stemming back to times where the patriarch went up against a "breadwinner" role while women took care of the children or is it due to the other contributing factors?

We all know the obvious difference in boys and girls. Typically, we associate boys with being rougher than girls and spending much of their time playing rambunctiously and getting dirty while most girls prefer to be subdued and tidy. But is that the only dissimilarity in gender? What about school work and academic performance along with academic success? Can gender be a predominating factor in determining a child’s IQ level? Is there a legitimate difference in boys and girls when determining academic ability? And, does gender help determine any level of academic success? Some might say that these are some pretty absurd questions but others who have taught both boys and girls in

When I attended school ( which was many years ago ) the boys were encouraged participate more in science and math related classes and sports related activities ,and girls were encouraged to take home economics , English , cheerleading. As times has changed over the years characteristics of being particular, prim, fashionable ( Wood 2015 ) that was one use to describe a female , the characteristics that once was used in describing a male such as being athletic, professional ,competitive is terms that is now used to describe both genders. Both Genders are more equal in school and school activities. Children are formed from an

I would agree with Amelia Newcomb’s findings in The Christian Science Monitor, that boys were easily labeled “learning disabled,” and that boys are assumed to be disruptive and troublemakers (Newcomb, 1-4). However, I disagree with her presumption that more attention needs to be paid “to the male side of the classroom.” Even though there have been studies finding that boys do not score as highly as girls on tests, specifically in reading and writing, I have found that boys are more likely to challenge themselves, due to the competition between others around them, as Newcomb has pointed out. If more focus has been given to girls in the classroom, it has been based upon their lack of ‘presence’ in the classroom. As Myra and David Sadker said in their article, Missing in Interaction, “When girls

Today's society is vastly different from that of years past. Years ago, elementary teachers, along with everybody else in society, put more emphasis on boys' education. This is understandable if we recall that at that time men were the ones who were working and running the show, while the womans' job was to stay home and tend to the children. At that time boys were treated fairly in the school system. The boys' behaved rowdy and aggressive as boys do, but the teachers accepted it, to an extent, because they understood that boys will be boys and that this was their natural behavior. The boys would outgrow their anti-social behavior in due time. Unfortunately this isn't the case in today's society. The society of today rewards feminine behavior and frowns upon what is considered masculine behavior. Many female teachers, having been influenced by society, unconsciously frown upon the behavior of their male students constantly. Thomas says that "there is a direct response between a child's academic achievement and a favorable response from the teacher ." (122) If this is true, which I believe it is, what messages are teachers giving to boys when their behavior is constantly being criticized.

Kimura’s book prompted me to do additional research about the way that sex differences affected the performance of children in school and why I have noticed a large number of boys failing in middle school. Bill McBride provided me with some additional insight into this phenomenon. He stated that boys and girls require different teaching methods due to their different learning styles. Much of the way that we teach in middle school is through lecture, which caters better to the way girls learn. We ask kids to sit still and stay on task for long periods of time, which is much easier for girls to do at this age due to the emphasis on listening and school language skills such as literacy. McBride went on to explain the importance of providing opportunities for boys to move throughout the day is necessary because boys are mesmerized by movement, and testosterone only adds to their need and desire to move. Because girls’ brains are better equipped for our current education system, they tend to do better in school (McBride).

Students are affected by the teacher and the teacher by the student like how Plato became one of the the greatest philosophers in the world because of his Teachers aristotle and Socrates over centuries ago. Plato even opened the first higher learning institution in the western world because of the warm affirmation of his teachers Aristotle and Socrates. Likewise the teaching world is very different from one thousand years ago such as the dwindling requirements to become a teacher which could decrease the teacher's ability to teach effectively. This

Moving on, to gender roles in education as Sadker once said “ sitting in the same classroom, reading the same textbook, listening to the same teacher, boys and girls receive very different educations.”(1994). People who Identify as female have been treated differently sense day one, as state din the article; “Teachers socialize girls towards feminine ideal. Girls are praised for being neat, quite, and calm, whereas boys are encouraged to think independently,

Traditionally, girls are seen as gentle or soft but on the contrary boys are supposed to be tough, loud, and rough. When labeling these characteristics it is easier to see how girls would adjust to a classroom setting. Girls also represent a type of soft spoken and easygoing attitude. In conclusion, because these views of girls and boys are so easy to spot it isn’t hard to see that our public education system is veered toward the “female” style of

In David Thoma's article, The Mind of Man, he writes about how he believes that women teachers are the reason why boys score lower on tests and don't do as well as girls in school. "At kindergarten and primary school level, in which little girls out-perform the boys, the vast majority of teachers are female."(121) He focuses on the fact that boys are more rebellious and outgoing than girls. Thomas believes that becasue most boys have

There is a vast region of differences set in how girls, and boys learn differently; with schools using this information they are able to empower and better educate their students. Peter Meyer makes this a key point to bring up in: “Kathy Piechura-Couture, a professor at the Institute for Educational Reform at Stetson University in Deland, Florida, has studied children at the Woodward elementary school in Deland, which has had separate classes for boys and girls for three years. She concluded that boys and girls are different enough that they demand, or should be offered, separate schools. "We looked at gain scores and concluded that there is a significant difference for boys when put in separate classes," says Piechura-Couture. Over the years, she explains, other researchers have discovered a significant number of differences between boys and girls that affect their learning abilities at any given

On the other hand, Thomas argues that boys often have a hard time in the classroom when their teacher is female. According to Tony Moody, in Thomas' article, instead of encouraging the boys, female teachers may ridicule them for their aggressive behavior. This constant chastising is seen by male students and their parents as a lack of respect for the male student (121). However, Moody first came to this conclusion with the experience of his own son. Can a person who uses his own son as an example be taken seriously? After all, there are not many parents in this wold who will admit that their son or daughter could possibly be a troublemaker. Most parents are in denial, believing that their child is a perfect angel. I have experienced this numerous times when talking to parents about their children. Yet, students must get past this so called bias and grasp the concepts that will be the basis of the rest of their knowledge. Once a student has the basic concepts, the space shuttle can be boarded for the tour of the terrestrial planets.

Teaching is a profession that is considered to be a rewarding challenging and complex role.  An effective teacher does not simply teach knowledge their students and instead aims to arm students with the knowledge, skills, understanding and attitudes that will prepare students for life-long learning. The constructivist theories developed by Piaget and Vygotsky have impacted on the way that teachers teach and this has changed the approach of teaching to place a greater importance on the teacher instead to act as a facilitator of learning in an open, constructivist environment and providing students with the tools to challenge themselves to develop both academically and personally.  The education of students within classrooms of today is

"Some teachers may work with students to create the class environment; others may force a class environment upon students" (Zawondiak 124). Regardless of the approach the teacher might decide to take, she holds the power even before a student walks into class. The teacher is the one that chooses what materials are going to be used during the school year. She creates and plans lessons that are going to be used during class time. How children are going to be assessed and placed in levels that fit the children's capabilities. And finally, the teacher decides what set of goals she might have for the class, the different set of teaching techniques she would like to use and the set of expectations she might have for each students. The teacher is the one that decides what she wants to concentrate on, how to go about teaching it, and the outcomes she expects from the students.