I Just Wanna Be Average
A student’s success is hard to define because every individual has different ideas of what is success. Students usually think of success as getting a passing grade, but the schools could define it as students getting a high GPA, and a good citizenship grade, along with a lot of other standards. But schooling, let alone education, shouldn’t be focused on grades. Rather, it should be based on the life lessons learned from the subjects taught. Life lessons could include study habits, confidence to participate, and being punctual to class or job meetings in the future. A student’s success also can’t be forced by any type of authority and should be approached from a less traditional angle. The students are primarily responsible for their success
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A lack of motivation could occur if a student is uninterested in the subject(s) being taught or if they are erroneously placed in a vocational track (Rose 346). Students may also begin to think if the teacher, isn’t going to go out of their way to give additional help to the students that need it to succeed, than they shouldn’t bother to study. In the essay “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose, he talks about his time spent in the vocational track and how he began to lose interest in all subjects and began to loath …show more content…
Rose’s teachers had no interest in teaching and didn’t know how to engage the students in learning. As Rose stated one of his teachers named Mr. Mitropetros, “had little training in English” so Rose and his classmates just reread Julius Caesar over and over again and they learned nothing else. (Rose 347) The teacher did not care if the students’ were successful so he did not bother to motivate the students or teach them the meaning of the play. Therefore being in the vocational track limited Rose’s education, the track was developed for the students that didn’t have the ability to succeed in a regular academic program. The students in that track could still get a mediocre education but they didn’t gain writing or self-development skills and the teaching was
A lack of motivation could occur if a student is uninterested in the subject(s) being taught or if they are erroneously placed in a vocational track (Rose 346). Students may also begin to think if the teacher, isn’t going to go out of their way to give additional help to the students that need it to succeed, than they shouldn’t bother to study. In the essay “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose, he talks about his time spent in the vocational track and how he began to lose interest in all subjects and began to loath …show more content…
Rose’s teachers had no interest in teaching and didn’t know how to engage the students in learning. As Rose stated one of his teachers named Mr. Mitropetros, “had little training in English” so Rose and his classmates just reread Julius Caesar over and over again and they learned nothing else. (Rose 347) The teacher did not care if the students’ were successful so he did not bother to motivate the students or teach them the meaning of the play. Therefore being in the vocational track limited Rose’s education, the track was developed for the students that didn’t have the ability to succeed in a regular academic program. The students in that track could still get a mediocre education but they didn’t gain writing or self-development skills and the teaching was