From Social Class And The Hidden Curriculum Of Work By Jean Anyon

When one thinks back to all the school years between kindergarten and high school, they will not remember the name of every teacher they have ever had without hard thought. There are always going to be the teachers that stood out from all the rest for one reason; they connected with their students. When asked about school, students will not reply with an undoubted love for all the time spent going through it. It is simply something we must all go through to get on with our lives and be an active member of society. I get the strangest looks from my peers when I say I like school. Now obviously, I have not loved every second spent behind a desk or all the time required to be spent with every teacher, but overall I do enjoy school because of the

Changing the mindset of a teacher to be a more optimistic and open one will take time and training but in the end, with fewer misunderstood kids it will be worth it. In the article “From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” written by Jean Anyon, she going on to explain how differently different classes of schools are taught and the skill set each school is giving their kids. In the “working class,” kids are taught to do without question or even a sense of purpose. As you move up the classes the children get more and more explanation as to why they are doing what they are doing. In the case that a child asks questions in the lower class they are told “because I said so” or simply told again to complete the task at hand in the exact way it was described. One’s economic class should not determine the quality of their education to the point that when all classes have completed, some are ready to join society in a place allowing advancement and some will never make it out of entry level

Like the famous saying goes “kids are the future” and it is our responsibly to prepare them for the workforce of the future. Furthermore, a change like this would only be expensive in the beginning. It is only the initial training of the first generation of teachers that would make a notable expense. After you have trained the first ones they can train the incoming teachers. It is a known fact that teachers collaborate with one another about lessons and teaching techniques. In addition to always attending school-wide staff meetings. Suppose the school board funds one multi-day workshop educating teachers on the benefits of a progressive teaching philosophy. Then take one of the mandatory once a month staff meetings to recap and converse about how it is going in the classroom to keep up the idea. Then every year after have the one meeting to share this with any new teachers and refresh the past teachers. The school district only has to pay for it once, thus eliminating cost as a valid reason to deny this change. The benefits of a positive learning experience for students far outweigh the cost to the