Writing Project Topic 2
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Throughout history, classrooms and teachers have been thought of as the ideal setting for learning and success. Many individuals, believe, to achieve academic success, you must choose this route. During my years in school thus far, I have always learned with the help of a teacher or educator. As I grow and become more mature, though, I realize that this is not the only way I can achieve academic excellence. In regards to Freire, his beliefs are that the standards for education are very simple. Teachers should be there to guide and help but the ultimate outcome should be left up to the student. The student must take responsibility for their success and what they need to do to achieve this. In order to do this students need to take the initiative to communicate with others, learning from them, gaining from hands on experiences, and lastly with the help from parents and past life lessons.
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In the typical classroom, the teacher is the person that goes over the information with the hopes that the students\u2019 are retaining it. In actuality, most students are not understanding it or retaining it due to their attention span, as well as boredom. In my past experiences in school and in the classroom, I have found that I learn best when I am communicating with others and learning as a group. Therefore students enjoy talking to each other and teaching one another as opposed to having a professor go over the material and the student possibly not retaining the information. This works well because the students understand each other, which in turn, can help boost moral. Students generally feel at ease when they are with their peers because they do not feel as intimidated which could inhibit their learning capabilities. When students talk to each and go over work, it helps them to retain the information and create a deeper bond with their peers.\u00a0
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Hands on learning is a very common form of learning especially in past decades. Many of our parents and grandparents learned trades and skills by actually performing them and did not learn them in a classroom. As stated by Paulo Freire\u00a0 in \u201cThe \u2018Banking\u2019 Concept of Education\u201d, \u201c The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world\u201d(Freire page 2). What he is stating here, is even though students are taking \u201cdeposits\u201d (information) in, the less likely they are to be able to form conscious decisions regarding the world around them. At West Chester as well as many other schools, we have majors like nursing and many others which take the students into the workplace and gives them hands on experiences, such as clinical in a hospital setting, which will help them grow and learn more productively. With real scenarios, students learn life lessons as well as from each other and their mistakes. As these students work with each other, they are learning how to interact with each other socially, problem solve, and work efficiently.
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Lastly, learning from accounts in history and past experiences, can help prepare students for life experiences and in the classroom. When we talk and listen with our parents, peers, and relatives we do not only gain information but we also learn from their past mistakes. Speaking with them and listening to their stories about life experiences, can prepare us for the future. We can only hope that we will not only learn from their mistakes but also gain the knowledge on how to become more successful. In reference to Paulo Freire, he makes a quote about how \u201cHence, it affirms women and men as beings who transcend themselves, who move forward and look ahead, for whom immobility represents a fatal threat, for whom looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future\u201d (Freire page 6). Therefore, similar to this quote, the more we can learn from our past, the better prepared we will be for the future.\u00a0
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In conclusion, students do not only learn in the classroom which has been done for decades but can learn successfully in many other ways. Students must be the one to empower and liberate themselves of the professor and the old ways of teaching ways. They can learn quicker,\u00a0 more efficiently from one another and to help retain the information better. Another form of learning something is to actually do it, this is why hands on educating is an effective way of teaching. When you physically doing something, you are learning it without even realizing. Lastly we can get insight from each other about their past and learn from their mistakes. In reference to Freire, the role of the student is up to them and they have the freedom to change the learning process, they can form new ways of learning to emancipate themselves from the oppressor.
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