My Least Favorite Educational Experience

Education has been the focus of my childhood since I can ever really remember. I was always intrigued by school and the concept of learning. I specifically recall my late grandmother taking me to the wildlife center as a young child and learning about predation by observing a one eyed bald eagle. I loved to read as a child more than most children. Harry Potter and Nancy Drew consumed my life on the side of the playground in elementary school while others were on the swings. My parents were the backbone of my educational success; they pushed me as hard as possible and never let me skip an optional reading program or science fair project. I was privileged to grow up in a gifted class setting where we were allowed to do projects that explored

As I entered my older years, unlike many students my age, I continued to take an interest in topics that weren’t required by my studies. I have an extreme interest in politics and a love for knowing information. My biggest pet peeve is being ill-informed and I feel as if that is a direct combination of my elementary school classes and my parent’s extreme concern with my education. My least favorite educational experience would have to be the beginning of college. I was taking chemistry, calc 1, and English and even though I had taken all of those classes in high school, I was completely overloaded with the amount of work I had to do and the individual effort that it took me to achieve in those classes. It was one of the hardest semesters of my life simply because I had never learned how to study. In highschool, I was never taught to read through a textbook on my own, how to pick out information, or the amount of practice I actually needed for a test. This semester taught me truly how I learn best. I have to study something repeatedly and go over things a few times before a

They will have questions and, unless lessons are interesting, will care more about lunch that the lesson you are teaching. These students have been taught very little. They are impressionable and eager to learn. Every student is different. They come with different backgrounds, have different interests, and show a wide variety in their want to learn. Most students don’t have parents who push them with everything they have to work hard. Some students have disabilities and some have much bigger things to worry about other than science such has a poor home life or lack of food. A teacher should know or in time learn all of these things about a student, because although they are only technically responsible for teaching these children the standards written, it is necessary to be able to help each student individually by overcoming each obstacle that they may have. In a typical science classroom I imagine about 25 students. The science classroom should be an open space with room for activities and demonstrations. Science classes for elementary students should not be based on note taking or in worksheets, but on the concepts of science that can be taught through demonstration. No 1st through fifth grader will find the value of the acceleration due to gravity memorable or exciting, however an experiment that compares how fast rocks fall compared to feathers will stick in their minds and will peak