Discussion Questions
Last class, we discussed some of your first experiences out in the field, in your internship classrooms. The discussion provoked many questions.
Post your responses to any of these questions, and feel free to respond to other people's responses as well.
1) Can Elementary School Teachers scar children?
2) Are students and teachers are equal? Should they be?
3) Do you think that a teacher has a greater impact on his/her students if he/she is the same race as them?
Post your responses to any of these questions, and feel free to respond to other people's responses as well.
1) Can Elementary School Teachers scar children?
2) Are students and teachers are equal? Should they be?
3) Do you think that a teacher has a greater impact on his/her students if he/she is the same race as them?
posted by Naseeba at
7:26 PM
10 Comments:
I think that elementry school teachers really can scar children. If a child is constantly being exposed to someone who is treating them in a certain way every day, there bound to be affected. Children are vunerable and sensitive, most look up to their teachers and when they are put down constantly I feel it has some sort of impact.
I dont feel that students and teachers are equal, and I dont think they should be. I think that teachers should be respected as being older and if a student and teacher were looked at on the same level, there would be no line indicating who is in charge. I think students would take advantage of this equality and disrespect teachers.
I dont think that if a teacher is the same race as a student he/she will have a greater impact. I think being educated and going to school has nothing to do with being taught by someone of the same race. Being taught by someone of a different race could be a great way to break sterotypes.
Christina Caruso
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Anonymous, at 5:39 PM
The teachers can scar the students. They can do this by saying something harsh or mean to the kids. The teachers will make it look like they are the ones right.
The students and teachers are not equal. The teachers should have more power but not that much. After all they went through the process to become a teacher and its there job. The teachers shouldn't abuse there power, and take advantage. The students should also have some say in what goes on in school.
I think that if the teacher and students had the same race, it would be more affective. They would be able to relate to each other in many ways. There would be no racism.
Brian Varughese
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Anonymous, at 2:22 PM
1) Can Elementary School Teachers scar children? Yes because as Will showed with the pen example...your elementary years can scar you for life. There are many experiences, good and bad, that i will never forget for the rest of my life. Those are the years in which your mind is so underdeveloped, that you are getting sculpted into the person that you need to be the rest fo your life. Its like tyoye older sibling, the younger you are the more you look up to them, then as you get older you learn to become your own person.
2) Are students and teachers are equal? Should they be? They are not equal but they should be to an extent. Teachers should not be allowed to do things that students are not allowed to do, (talk on the fone, use an ipod etc.) I feel as though the only control a teacher has over a student, is securing the student BY ALL MEANS NECISSARY!!! However, talking on a phone when confiscating another students phone, is obnoxious and annoying.
3) Do you think that a teacher has a greater impact on his/her students if he/she is the same race as them? Yes, because tehn lessons will be able to be taught easier, and there is a higher chance of the student body listening to the same race then the different race. Another issue would be racism, it wouldnt occur, and lets say some students who are white, hear many bad and racist comments about black people, and they wind up having a black teacher, then they are most likely going to have a closed minded opinion of this person, causing more problems.
-Denise-
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Anonymous, at 4:29 PM
I think that yes, elementary teachers can scar children because the children are young and everything will have a big impact on them. They will grow up on anything that is taught to them, and they will react upon that in the future. Ofcourse children will make mistakes, but they are young and you have to treat them with kindness, and love to keep them happy.
Students and teachers are not equal and they shouldn't be equal. They should not be equal because then that will ruin the whole plot of the classroom. The students will not listen to the teacher because they think that they have equal rights just like the teachers.It's not in the classroom's environment for the teachers and students be equal beacuse that's not the way school works. The teachers will have a lot of rights over the students because they are the ones making the future for them. Teachers should have the most rights because they deserve them. They care enough to come to school everyday and teach the children.
I think that it doesn't matter if the teacher is any specific race. The students go to school to learn and to get an education. The teachers are doing there job by teaching you and making sure you get a good eduacation to make a good future for yourselves. You really shouldn't care because everyone is different and they will have different personalities from everybody. As long as the classroom is going effectively there really shouldn't be any problems.
Azhar Syed
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Anonymous, at 5:31 PM
I think that teachers definitly scar children, and in some way influence the child. When kids are smaller they are so much more sensitive than lets say a high school student. They love to please adults and want to be praised constantly.For example if an adult tells me something now i will hear them but it won't impact me as much. Now if a teacher yells at a little 2nd grader the kid will most likely start crying and it would hit the child much more than it would to me.
I don't think students and teachers are equal. There is always the sense of higher authority that a teacher has. Yes, some teachers may be "cooler" than others but when it comes down to it, they have the last word. I also don't think that teachers and students should be equal because teachers are like role models and they are supposed to be parent figures, if they are looked as equals then like albin said there would be no order. Schools would be total craziness because some students would have no respect and would think they could do whatever they wanted.
I don't think that race should be a factor for a teacher to have an impact on his/her students. I feel like a teacher is a teacher, they should have your total respect whether their black, white, chinese, yellow, whatever. In my case some of the teachers that have had the greatest impact on me are not even the same ethnicity(race) as me. However speaking realisticly to some people it does have a greater impact. Im not saying that I agree with it, but it is true in some cases. Students may feel that teachers of there same race can relate better, or "know how life is".
Valerie
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Anonymous, at 6:31 PM
1) Can Elementary School Teachers scar children?
Comming from district 26, I did not have a chance to see teachers who had the capability to scar a child. However, thats not to say that I dont belive teachers dont hurt children. I've looked into child development and the childs brain is much like a peace of clay, It's easily impressionable and the later its formed the harder it is to change it. A simple affect in childhood can have drastic outcomes later in life. Teachers are litearly, people who mold children into functional members in society and thus they are the ones who truly know how to change a childs mind, either for good or bad.
2) Are students and teachers are equal? Should they be? The main difference between private and public schools is the fact that children want to go to private schools. They are there by choice. On the other hand, children are forced into public schools. And so with that, there needs to be a certain level of superiority and dominance in order to maintain control in the class room. How ever, in the private school, the teacher can not be fully equal, it would totaly contradict what it means to be a teacher.
3) Do you think that a teacher has a greater impact on his/her students if he/she is the same race as them?
I've been teaching art class in ms. Fairfull's class. And I noticed something disturbing. Everyone was treated with the same respect and taught the same lesson at the same pace. The people who were excelling in the class, were the white students, with some spanish students. The people who were lost and didnt understand the main concepts, were mostly spanish and black. Its shocking to see it so up front in my face, it scared me. However I worked with them to even out the playing fields. Yet I dont understand how race played a role in my lesson because I am of middle eastern decent, why were the white kids excelling. Maybe white students are better students? Call me racist but that is what I found and I'm not going to let political correctness stop that.
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will not pay, at 6:53 PM
I think that a teacher can scar a student because sometimes teachers can hurt their students feelings. Most of the time when that happens the child has to carry that through his or her life. No I do not think students and teachers are equal.
Kanya
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Anonymous, at 10:14 AM
I think that elementary school teachers can scar children in a way. Sometimes when a student is constantly put down and yelled at even for the smallest mistake that kid’s life does get affected. As the child grows up they tend to remember all those things that had happened to them when they were a child. This will have a strong impact in their future. Kids are really sensitive and it is really important to treat them in a way that they won’t be put down. Everyone makes mistakes. But to make sure that the child does not do the same mistake you have to talk to them instead of yelling at them. I think that what happens in your life as a child has a huge impact on their future so the best thing is to do is to explain to the child what they have done wrong rather then just yelling at them and putting them down.
-Rahma Tariq
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Anonymous, at 2:06 PM
Andrew Alexander
I know that kids may seem more fragile at a young age, but I honestly think that so long as the child is well-supported in their home-life, it's relatively difficult to permanently affect a child. Making a 5 year old cry once in a while (besides certifying you as a monster) is scary, and may give the child a particularly bad impression of people like yourself, but it won't normally become a part of the person's personality.
Should students and teachers be equal? I don't really think this needs to be covered at all, simply because you don't see teachers and students engage in a power struggle that frequently. Address the child like you'd address a peer, but when it came down to it, you'd need to make sure everyone knew who was boss.
As for race, I think it's irrelevant. Kids see teachers as people, there is no such thing as racial difference, even if someone starts playing a race card. If a teacher constantly picks on say, the Spanish kids or the black kids, that teacher is racist, but that doesn't mean that all the people in the school of the teacher's race are necessarily racist.
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