Why Some Students Fail to Learn
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Why some students fail to learn, and others succeed?
By: Jessica Gross
11/4/2008
Why some students fail to learn, and others succeed?
I began my quest for the answers behind this question: why some students fail to learn and other students succeed, from my own personal experiences. My brother and I grew up in the same lifestyle; same home, and went to the same schools. It was not an easy childhood and we didn’t attend the best schools. Our parents were not involved with our school work and the examples they set were not positive. I choose a path of sports, education, and integrity. My brother choose drugs and violence after my parents. I succeeded in school and sports and he didn’t. That question of how I escaped that lifestyle and why education meant so much to me goes through my mind everyday. I asked Laurel Wodrich at Woodland Intermediate West, a middle school located in Gurnee, Illinois this same question. Laurel replied with “Not all students fit into the perfect mold of a student. Every child is different, learns different, and advances different”. I couldn’t of said it better myself. Laurel has been a teacher for 18 years and currently works with students in Special Education. Being that Laurel is a Special Education teacher and works with students that have ADD/ADHD I asked her why she thought students cant concentrate in today’s society. One point she made was that YES some students do have a chemical imbalance in their brains that make it difficult for students to concentrate. She said that a doctor could prescribe medication to help or that modifications could be made in the classroom. I can understand that some students truly have medical conditions but do all these students have ADD or is there something else going on? I personally being a student in today’s society is hard. One reason is that everything is so fast paced. When I sit down to do homework I have so many distractions just at an arms length away. The TV is
Why some students fail to learn, and others succeed?
By: Jessica Gross
11/4/2008
Why some students fail to learn, and others succeed?
I began my quest for the answers behind this question: why some students fail to learn and other students succeed, from my own personal experiences. My brother and I grew up in the same lifestyle; same home, and went to the same schools. It was not an easy childhood and we didn’t attend the best schools. Our parents were not involved with our school work and the examples they set were not positive. I choose a path of sports, education, and integrity. My brother choose drugs and violence after my parents. I succeeded in school and sports and he didn’t. That question of how I escaped that lifestyle and why education meant so much to me goes through my mind everyday. I asked Laurel Wodrich at Woodland Intermediate West, a middle school located in Gurnee, Illinois this same question. Laurel replied with “Not all students fit into the perfect mold of a student. Every child is different, learns different, and advances different”. I couldn’t of said it better myself. Laurel has been a teacher for 18 years and currently works with students in Special Education. Being that Laurel is a Special Education teacher and works with students that have ADD/ADHD I asked her why she thought students cant concentrate in today’s society. One point she made was that YES some students do have a chemical imbalance in their brains that make it difficult for students to concentrate. She said that a doctor could prescribe medication to help or that modifications could be made in the classroom. I can understand that some students truly have medical conditions but do all these students have ADD or is there something else going on? I personally being a student in today’s society is hard. One reason is that everything is so fast paced. When I sit down to do homework I have so many distractions just at an arms length away. The TV is