I'm currently collaborating on a book dealing with classroom discipline. Would you consider classroom discipline problems to be the #1 problem facing the teachers of today? If not - where do discipline problems fall on the totem pole? What techniques do you utilize to deal with these problems? Would you find a book that had a unique way of dealing with them useful? Thank you.
2006-10-10 06:54:59 · 11 answers · asked by captain2man 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
The #1 problem today is that parents no longer take an active role in their childrens' education.
2006-10-10 07:15:21 · answer #1 · answered by ratboy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A sucessful school has the following winning formula: committed parents who value education; an outstanding challenging curriculum, a supportive and innovative school administration, and experienced, committed teachers.
With that stated...then and only then can you even begin to discuss classroom discipline...the kids are out of order, because it's a microcosmic reflection of the macrocosm.
There is no #1 problem in our educational system. The macrocosm is this: Class, race, politics, the breakdown of American family moral and values, and the fact that the United States educational system is antiquated and outdated. To top it all off teachers are not valued in our society....if they were....they would be paid a salary reflective of worth.... Holistically, these are all #1 problems.
We no longer live in an Industrial Age we live in an Information age...and our kids suffer because we still teach the invalid idea of graduate, get a job, a pension, and retire comfortably....this simply does not exist anymore....with these antiquated ideas there is no future to look forward to.
We are living in a time where Americans are working their tails off in the rat race to make ends meet because they are being stretched beyond their limits. 401(k) plans, instead of employer sponsored pension plans, outsourcing, and overall employees paying for medical expenses that they never really expected to be paying for in this lifetime. They were taught that all you had to do was go to school/college and get a good paying job and they would be set for life...turns out...that's been the greatest trick ever played on the American public and our educational system is to blame.
What the educational system needs is an overhaul. Period. We are being left behind by third world country citizens... people who otherwise don't even have a quarter of the resources available to American public schools.
I'm a New York City Teaching Fellow and I've taught in Harlem. And it's bad. American academics will continue to disintegrate and be rendered obsolete if the curriculum isn't overhauled and we catch up to the 21rst century. Our children are not being prepared for the world that exists now...information, networking, and technology are the buzz words of the future...not safety nets, and reliance on the government with SS and pensions...
Nuff, said.
2006-10-10 15:46:15 · answer #2 · answered by Get Togetha 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe the number one problem in my classroom is differentiating my curriculum to fit the needs of all of my students. I do not have much of a problem with class discipline, but I do have a hard time adjusting the lesson so that I can reach my gifted students as well as my students with IEPs and learning disabilities.
2006-10-10 19:36:48 · answer #3 · answered by miz e. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Discipline problems, but together with lack of responsibility of the parents or relatives, not following the children activities at school and outside school, watching their conduct and activities. I believe that sometimes the students do not have support from their parents. Parents are not willing to help or support just to punish or scream
2006-10-10 14:10:43 · answer #4 · answered by pelancha 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the number one problem for me as a high school teacher is the low level of students when they arrive. Their reading comprehension skills are, across the board, very low. This is part of the management problem, I feel, as students act out when they are bored or feel lost. We, as a society, have to start promoting reading with and by children from an early age, or our testing, behavior and all other problems are never going to get better.
2006-10-10 14:08:50 · answer #5 · answered by truthsayer18 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the school. I have worked in a school from hell and the kids (teenagers) were the spawns of Satan. I am currently working at a school that is the complete opposite. My biggest issue isn't the discipline, it is the shear amount of work (I teach English).
2006-10-11 21:42:45 · answer #6 · answered by cammie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes that would be the biggest problem in the classroom today is discipline.
2006-10-10 14:02:27 · answer #7 · answered by govtagent_2001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Respect,the ones that don't want to learn,a Judge should order them to work picking apples ,tomato's, cucumbers and see how easy thing are here for them.
2006-10-10 14:07:45 · answer #8 · answered by Rather be dead than red... 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
students care more about what others think so they try to act and be cool rather than getting good grades and respecting their teachers
2006-10-10 13:56:57 · answer #9 · answered by iwearshoes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
parents are the problem.
2006-10-10 14:32:25 · answer #10 · answered by mimi22 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋