All throughout a student's life they are evaluated and constantly watched. It seems as though their peers are trying to find faults within them. This feeling of being watched and having to always be on your best behavior can be a difficult ideal to live up to. As a student, I have realized these things on my own, but it isn't all how the teachers view them but how their fellow students view them also. There are a lot of both hurtful and positive stereotypes out there about students, and it all depends on how you look at them.
Throughout my past three years of high school, I have gotten to know the true personality of a lot of my classmates. I must say that some of them need some major guidance in their lives while others have things more under control. I feel as though my classmates most of the time don't realize how quickly they will be out on their own, not having anyone to depend on. So in this sense a lot of them are
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I feel as though it is this way because there is so much external pressure put upon us that many feel they can not live up to. Also, students might feel as though they will never meet those expectations so a lot of them give up . A lot of students know that they are capable of what is being asked of them but do not want to put the effort forward. So as a group I feel students look upon themselves as less than what they truly are.
The body language a lot of students put forth especially in school is an I don't care attitude. Many think that they should or don't need to care or put forth the effort to do well. This is evident through their body language. In class, many have a closed off signal coming from how they present themselves, so showing they do not care. I have witnessed teachers giving up trying to teach a concept because of body language like this became when they put off this visual they don't care enough to keep the
Many students take their high school years for granted and do not always pull off the best grades. But then when they get to college, or a higher degree of education than high school they start to straighten up. The reason being is because after high school everyone can choose what it is they want to spend the rest of their life doing. The classes they take, are of interest to them rather than all of the required ones in high school. For this reason I feel that students are more likely to take college seriously and not just because of the money.
Ultimately, by these students tieing their self image to getting the highest possible grade it can lead them to some serious Problems, the students not learning to their full potential, and negatively affect their career. Grades play a role in education but grades should not define a student like it does today.
...t ready after college. They may sometimes have a hard time finding a job because they are not great at doing interviews. They might be the person who everyone does not like because that person is not doing any team work or tries to be the boss when that person is nothing but an employee just like the others. They my believe everything is a competition.. SO while most students have the change get out there and get involve in the activities in college because have the confidence, courage, and friendship would get you to a lot of places.
A time that I did something that I thought I couldn't do, was to stick up for others. When I was in sixth grade, during recess, I saw a girl named Melissa crying. I went up to her and asked what was wrong. She said that people were talking about her behind her back, and that she felt awkward around them. I consoled her by letting her know that friends don't talk behind friends backs and that you have other people that you can talk to during recess. It bothered me how Melissa was sad. She felt a little better after we talked and then we played games.
There is a phenomenon happening in most schools throughout the country. Asian students as young as seven years olds are labeled as gifted and enrolled in various accelerate programs to further develop their talents. Certainly, most of these students are deserving of the honorable recognition. However, many skeptics do question how many of them are viewed as exceptional students based upon the stereotype: they are genetically smarter than their non-Asian peers.
If students continue to compare their failures to their full potential, it makes things worse. When they are struggling with a certain class, they give up without looking for help or stop showing up to class. Rebecca D. Cox, educator, writes in her book, The Student Fear Factor that students come into college with a lot of fear and doubts of their potential in school. In her book, a student states, “‘I turned in my first paper and I got an X… I mean, you’re supposed to get like, a B over X, or a C over X, so that you can have a chance to fix what you made a mistake in and then get that C…
This results in adolescents to fear to go to that class and be uncomfortable in the class when they are resulting and anxiety based children with grades that reflect it. Not only does forcing each individual to participate in class forces everyone to conform into the same confident individual but it makes the shyer students feel as if they are not as good as the confident students. Another example of how school 's guidelines force individuals to conform in to the "perfect" citizen is from them to respect the teacher 's position as leader in the classroom. The word leader is a harsh word to use about a teacher. It makes it seem as if the students are have no say in the way they should be taught, which is nearly always the case, when in reality it should almost be the opposite. While yes they teachers should be respected by their students they should not have total control over how the students learn. For instance, some students need visual effects to learn something new where others just need it explained to them once. But, in our schools systems students are being forced to learn the way the teacher feels like teaching, even if that form of teaching does not work for that individual. This
Today and in recent history of the film industry, masculinity is often shown as stereotypes and examples of alpha males who are powerful and dominant who seek adventure and are always quick to show their opinion and strength. In the film School Ties (1992) directed by Robert Mandel, Charlie Dillon (Matt Damon) is a young man in his last year at high school who has to live up to his family’s superior(?) expectations and high standards that his older brother has left before him. Charlie Dillon is portrayed as an alpha male. While on the journey to manhood and through his final year of school he finds that though it may be impossible to live up to his family’s name, he will do anything to achieve his goal. The director
When they admitted to the teacher why didn't understand something, the students that did understand would laugh, and mimic them. I literally watched them belittle a persons character. They made them feel less of a person. Those attitudes and actions from the students made the other students feel like they were stupid or dumb. All because they didn't catch on right away or as quickly as them.
Stereotypes are everywhere in our lives, and although no one admits it, we happen to always judge a person by their appearance. Solely based on someone’s exterior you could form an opinion of how highly they do in their studies, athletics, and their social life. It could either be a racial stereotype: “If you’re Asian you excel in your academics” or the cliche “If you wear glasses, you’re perceived as smart”.
In word and deed, today’s society wanes in respect. Respecting your elders and honoring your father and mother are no longer a given. We talk back, miss curfews, overlook presidential addresses and the states comprising this union are divided. In previous generations, respect for one’s neighbors, family, country and values was ingrained in the daily fold. One may counteract this stance with the example of discrimination; however, while prejudice extends from society to the armed forces all are not prejudice. Conditioned to the view the world through one lens restrains the landscape. Stereotypes are meant to act as scripts to protect us, but to what extent do they hinder our horizons? As many of the previous generation exemplify, there is always a sense of hope; never get below the horizon such that you lose sight of the coming brighter days.
...student as slow then the student, may feel that the teacher has given up on them and not put forth the effort do well in school. The most devastating labels are put on the poor and the powerless. They do not have the fight in them to reverse the label and therefore believe that the label is true.
Numerous students may feel the desire to explore their adulthood in an immature manner. There are
To begin, we need to understand the nature of students. The nature of students varies between individuals. The majority of students are well-behaved and come to school ready to learn. Part of this is due to the way they have been raised, but most students are basically good. There is a small percent of students whose nature, it seems, is to make everyone miserable. I do not know if this is because of a difficult childhood at home or because the student just likes to be the center of attention. Either way, there are always students that will give their teachers a hard time. I guess this is their nature. Every individual is different, therefore, the nature of the students I will teach some day will be different depending on their background and other various things that may happen to them as they grow up. For example, a student that has lost a sibling due to an illness or accident, may become very bitter throughout life. The nature of this student’s behavior which is being shaped by this may make this student a cold-hearted and mean student. These are the students that teachers need to spend extra time with and try to make them feel loved, no matter how hard this may be. I, as a future teacher, need to look at students and try to help them out no matter how difficult that may be.
Maybe it is because that parents often say “spare the rod spoil the child”, and Instructors often time get to use to how they are treating their child so they’ll likely to do the same to their students. Or some instructor may just simply lost their work ethic. I think all of the teachers should respect every student, and every single student should be treated equally.