For Once Blame The Students Summary

Recent high school graduates are not well prepared to face society as it really is cruel, confusing, and tough. In school students are not taught skills they will need out of the classroom, what they are taught is memorization, and multiple choice test taking in which they can guess their way through or just simply cheat. In the article “For Once, Blame the Students” by the author Patrick Welsh he states that “Failure in the classroom is often tied to lack of funding, poor teachers or other skills. Here 's a thought: Maybe it 's the failed work ethic of today’s kids” (Welsh). When teachers teach a new lesson they make students take notes on their textbook and then, they give them multiple choice tests to see if they learned anything. Learning

Children are better learners than adults except in the area of the pronunciation of words. That is why the second language program will be accepting children who are in elementary, they will be taught how to read signs, and learn how to speak in the desired second language. The objective goal of the second language program is to get students ready to speak another language as if it were their primary language. The second language program will not be as any other school program because it will require dedication, responsibility, and focus. Kids now are lazy and also don’t communicate well with other people, which is important because they will need to know how to communicate when they graduate high school, but because they were not taught how to they are lacking that skill. Students because they are being taught out the book they don’t get to learn different skills that will be useful when they leave high school. In the program students won’t be learning straight off the book they will be assigned a pen pal who they will be writing to not in English but in their chosen second language, and every so often they will talk on Skype this will show if they are understanding the language; with the interaction that the students will be doing they will develop communicative skills that will be

The lesson plan for the program will be: in third grade of elementary the students will be assigned a foreign language pen pal which they will be exchanging letters with, their tests will be of doing a presentation of their second language each time they present it will get more difficult and challenging, from fourth grade up to twelfth grade the students will be taken to convention centers giving speeches to people and will also co-host activities which will strengthen their vocabulary and help them open up to opportunities. It all might seem like a lot of work and stressful or not even possible to do but this program is really effective because it pushed students to their potential knowledge. By the time that the students get to high school they will be fluent speakers of their second language and will also be comfortable speaking to people. For the final exam which would be in their senior year of high school, the students will be taken to the state or country of their second language, and the students will have to find their way back home, they will not be given a map nor a phone, from where the students are dropped off they will have to communicate with people to get directions to find their way back home. This all seems to be intense but it by putting them in a situation of having to talk to other