Everlasting Effects of the Public Education System and Teachers During the developmental years, a child has many people who will influence them and affect how they see themselves. Second from a student’s parent, teachers are one of the greatest influences in a child or teen’s development of self esteem and motivation. Not only, do teaching methods affect a student’s education, but a teacher’s attitudes and behaviors can influence a student to gain a healthy mentality and personality while leaving everlasting influences (Ulug, Ozden, & Eryilmaz, 2011). After years of taking general ed classes during my school years, I had become a prime example of a byproduct of our public education system. I had been the kind of student that was promising and had a lot of potential; but over the years I had gotten lost in the educational system, not only my self- esteem but my motivation had been lost. I had become a victim to our education system that still educates as though we are creating factory and line workers rather than creating innovative minds. It wasn’t until college did I start to see the effects that years of school had done. I had entered college and expected that it would come easy to me. Later I would come realize that I had taken years of the general ed classes required of me, to still end up feeling as though I was not prepared for college. After years of being taught to regurgitate knowledge just to pass exams , I had lost my creativity and inspiration.. During my years in K-12 I had not learned to think for myself or to look at the world critically, but rather I had learned helplessness and lost my sense of perseverance. We need to learn that teaching a child how to think is more impactful than teaching them what to think. When you teach a child how to think rather than what to think is when we create room for positive development. A teacher’s influence whether it is positive or negative can create a lasting effect on the mind of a child. Such as sympathy from a teacher has a greater affect negatively than anger responses, because a student is more likely to feel as though it was from uncontrollable circumstances, rather than from lack of effort (Stipek, 2010). When a child starts to believe that failing is out of their control, they become victims of “learned helplessness.” In our education system we easily can measure IQ and this is what we stick to rather than teaching motivation and “grit” which can be more influential to learning and in life (Duckworth, 2013). Once a person has “grit” or perseverance, then challenges no longer scare them but they welcome them and learn that failure is only a first attempt. Once we as a society learn that our creative minds are better than grades and test scores then we can change the whole system for the better. So many kids get lost in our education system and it affects who they are for the rest of their lives. Once we can restore passion that’s when we will see real change. References Duckworth, A. L. (2013, April). Retrieved September 20, 2017, from https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance Stipek, D. (2010, July 20). How Do Teachers' Expectations Affect Student Learning. Retrieved September 20, 2017, from https://www.education.com/reference/article/teachers-expectations-affect-learning/ The following image,Students work on robots at Cañada College, provided by HoodR, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&q=students&tbs=sur:fmc#imgrc=EM4P0K6WSET4zM: Ulug, Ozden, & Eryilmaz. (2011). The Effects of Teachers’ Attitudes on Students’ Personality and Performance. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 30, 738-742.
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