Deal Breakers

Some potential deal breakers I (Chabot student) face today is students not being able to connect with teachers on a deeper basis. Every semester we walk into a new class thinking if this teacher will actually care about how we do in this class, well the sad reality is that most of them don’t care. When I mean caring, I don’t mean being an easy teacher and not challenging the student. Not all students start at the same spot, but its not how far you are compared to the other student. Teachers must not pool all students under one standard; they must individualize the education of the student. For example, in my English 102 class we got give input of how we could learn better as students to the teacher. The teacher was willing enough to go beneath the students to actually understand what is the most effective way of learning, rather than cramming definitions into some ones head. 

                      Another deal breaker we face today is what kind of reviews the teacher has. The reviews are posted on this website, where students go to read what kind of experience they had with a certain teacher. Overall the reviews are consistent with the way the teacher teaches. It comes into question that while the reviews keep piling up, maybe good or bad, teachers don’t take into consideration that their way of teaching doesn’t suit this generation of students. Teachers are privileged in a way that they think just because they have been teachers for however many years, that if you keep doing the same thing it will work. This is more ignorance rather than privilege. Teachers should read these reviews and reflect upon what they can do better or what is working for the community. The typical ignorant teacher refuses to radically change teaching styles. It’s these graduate and doctorate degrees that blow teachers ego out of proportion. 

A teacher who took learning beyond the classroom.