UNCOVERING THE ROOT CAUSE

I admire teachers a lot, especially teachers that know their jobs. When I was still in primary school, I didn’t really have a good reading skills but then, something happened and my dad had to change our school and it was at that point, I met the English teacher that changed my life for the better. The thing is, not everyone who teaches today, would have really been in the teaching industry if they had found another higher paying job. But then, there are few that despite the fact that they get other opportunities to work in a better places, they still choose to soil their hands with the dust from the chalkboard.

Teaching is something that comes very naturally for those set of teachers. So I remember my first oral reading test, I did very poorly but then, she didn’t give up on me, she corrected me in the areas I didn’t get it well and she told me that I should go back home and practice how to read it again and come to meet her the following day to read it to her again. She didn’t just do this to me but to everyone who didn’t do well. I saw that some of my mates read it so well and that was a big push for me too to want to do better.

The next day, I was able to read it better because my sister taught me how to pronounce all the words I was having issues with and I didn’t just focus on pronouncing these words, I was also able to go the extra mile to learn how to read without counting my words. My teacher was impressed and she asked the class to applaud me. Ever since then, I have always enjoyed learning new words and also reading out to make me more fluent. Some teachers are never patient with their students, they sometimes think it is by being harsh on students that will make them learn but that is not always true.

I had a lot of classmates then who hated mathematics because the teacher was always very strict. They hated the teacher and because of that, it made it harder for them to even listen to him whenever he was teaching and that in turn made them end up not understanding what he has taught. I knew the teacher was strict but then I didn’t let that affect me, instead I saw that as an opportunity to keep doing better so I don’t fall into the teachers wrong book. But then, I remember when my maths teacher was changed, a lot of us started doing better because this other teacher was more patient with us.

She made most of us love mathematics even more and I don’t even know how exactly she did it. And it wasn’t just mathematics, I also noticed similar results too when we changed our chemistry and physics teaches too. At that point, I couldn’t help but think that teachers should be more accountable to an extent how well their students perform in class and also during tests and exams. I believe there are ethics for teaching and if these teachers follow and continues to improve on those ethics, students will continue to perform better in their academics.

Although, we must also recognize the fact that some students have a low IQ level than others and that makes it harder for them to just assimilate things easily. But then, the human brain is one that can be developed over time but then, with the way our learning processes is structured in schools, it doesn’t make room for slow learners, it only makes room for excellent and average students. And this won’t be termed the teachers fault but the educational systems. But then, as a good teacher, you should be able to identify students like this and focus more on them and maybe even tell their parents about it too.

Well, overall, I won’t completely blame a teacher for the poor performance of a child as long as the teacher was able to play his or her role properly. I will prefer to blame the educational systems more for not making room for everyone.

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