I've had several teachers that follow the banking concept. One in particular stands out. My Jr. year of high school my history teacher was the poster child. We were told where to sit, how to sit, what color notebooks to have, anything she could control she would. Her classes were lifeless. She would start out with a , "Hey how is everyone?" and then cut you off mid sentence to get to the lesson. There was no discussion about the material, we just read off of a power point and took notes. And any questions we had we were told to refer to the textbook. I dreaded that class there was no motivation what so ever. I felt no connection to the teacher or with my fellow students, I didn't even know the names of the people in my class! Unfortunately I barely passed the class. That next year in history however I had an awesome teacher. Very similar to Mr.Mangini's style. He was full of life, asked questions about our personal lives, met one on one about what test answers we got wrong, and made us feel apart of what we were learning. I did well in that class because I felt motivated, I looked forward to handing in assignments and hearing his feedback because it was always positive.
The "Banking Concept" of Education (Paulo Freire) is the article we had to read in class this week. It was a challenging article, but well worth the read. Have you ever felt like a teacher is there to just collect a check? Like you didn't matter to that teacher at all? That's what this article is all about. Feeling like your oppressed in a classroom, afraid to ask questions, having no personal relationship with the teacher is all what the "Banking Concept" is about. The standards in today's education that teachers are not one with the students but rather the teachers are a narrating subject, and the students are listening objects. Their words have no meanings their being said because they were told they have to be. They have no desire to connect with the students that the are teaching. I feel like the "Banking Concept" is dead on correct. There have been numerous classes that I have been in where the teacher puts up slides that were created 5 or 6 years ago, hands out a study guide to fill notes in and that's it for the rest of the year. How are you supposed to be excited about going to that class, or learn what's going on when there's no spark in the classroom? Friere states, "Education is suffering from narration sickness". I agree! Anytime I've ever had a teacher that acted more like a dictator and less like a human I've always done terribly!
I've had several teachers that follow the banking concept. One in particular stands out. My Jr. year of high school my history teacher was the poster child. We were told where to sit, how to sit, what color notebooks to have, anything she could control she would. Her classes were lifeless. She would start out with a , "Hey how is everyone?" and then cut you off mid sentence to get to the lesson. There was no discussion about the material, we just read off of a power point and took notes. And any questions we had we were told to refer to the textbook. I dreaded that class there was no motivation what so ever. I felt no connection to the teacher or with my fellow students, I didn't even know the names of the people in my class! Unfortunately I barely passed the class. That next year in history however I had an awesome teacher. Very similar to Mr.Mangini's style. He was full of life, asked questions about our personal lives, met one on one about what test answers we got wrong, and made us feel apart of what we were learning. I did well in that class because I felt motivated, I looked forward to handing in assignments and hearing his feedback because it was always positive.
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Sabatino
9/24/2015 03:08:26 pm
This could serve as strong material for your adaptive mindset assignment:
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