What means education. If we consider education such as “ Education is a mountain to be claimed”, “ Education is a river to crossed “, “Education is the consumption of certain doses of material ”, it is better to group the climbers, the swimmers, and the consumers into squads for climbing, swimming, and eating. But today education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life. We must conceive of education as a means by which the student can grow and develop in a culture. As soon as we realize this fact, we will understand that keeping a good student is very important: to encourage and inspire that student is worthwhile accomplishment. The good teacher is the one who can change the direction of the unsuccessful student. Still, teachers must try to convince students that they have an important role to play in the learning process.
Mission Statements from The University of Minnesota; Morehouse College, The Evergreen State College; California State University, Monterey Bay; and Thomas Aquinas College use different terms to describe what we had been thinking of as goals statements. The common principle is that the individual is the product of his culture obligates those responsible for the education of the young to provide the best possible social environment for them. A college becomes the community’s cultural through which student can participate in good living. Our education should prepare for the world we’re living in today.
According to Evergreen State College, the goal: “The main purpose of a college is to teach and good teaching involves close interaction between faculty and students” (Mission Statements p 54) should available in education from kindergarten to University. A good school is the best center of culture, a community can provide for its children, a constellation of interests, facilities, services, and leadership oriented primarily, but not exclusively, to children.
The teachers challenge the children, leading them to better living. Probably the teacher’s most important common characteristic is that all know and care how children feel. They are seeking to provide the environment to good child life. Education should be on equal for everyone. It is well to recognize the principle that every student needs for his own well being some experience of success.
My best experience that I understand now is the relationship between faculty and students. During my first year at Pierce College, I was taking four English classes with the same teacher for two semesters. I was however an immigrant who just came to America. As I was shy, my teacher always encouraged me. He helps me to minimize my weakness and maximize my strengths. He didn’t insist me adopt his pronunciation of the words. He said the phonology, or speech sounds of the English language are varied and in some cases interchangeable. As a counselor my English teacher help me find my personal interests that lead to success in my career.
My worst experience was during my junior year at CSUN. Now I still remember. At the end of the semester my art’s teacher told me that she could not give me an “A” because I don’t speak English fluently although all my work was nice. For this class we did not have midterm or final, just only the work of drawing or painting and going to the museum and writing the paper about the artist. I always respect the teachers. I know college teachers are mostly pretty good citizens. They win respect and admiration in the community. They have solid status. But I could not believe this teacher was telling me like that. Art class required the skill to draw not the skill to write English. I know what she said is right but unfair. She did not know that these words have the power to destroy confidence, to dispel hope, and to instill doubt.
The goal of college education is the development of the student into a mature. Therefore the teacher as counselor can help the student find his / her personal interests that may lead to success in his / her career. If the teacher is well- balanced, has poise, and show good emotional adjustment, some of his / her balance, poise and control will be communicated to his / her students and improve their learning. The teachers can take explicit steps to improve their techniques. They try to seek the conditions most favorable involving not only the tasks set the students by the outlined curriculum, but also the emotional and social interrelations of the group of students, and the skill of the teachers. They should to know their job is to help all their students to be all they can be. This motto is readily attained when students have the approval, encouragement, support and love of their teachers.
The faculty and students are members in a college. They help each other to make learning possible. The students need to success. Therefore the most important significant influences on the intellectual development and desires of students in a college is the faculty-students relations which affects not only the smarted, the degree candidates and prospective graduate students, but all the students, whether they finish college or not. The relationship between faculty and students is centered in the classroom. The role of the students change between high school and college. Therefore the role of the teacher differs. The student should understand and accept the teacher’s role and reciprocal.
Establishing good relationships between faculty and students, between teachers and children is a powerful reinforce that can shape student behavior. Faculty should be a well –spring of student hope and encouragement. The way they communicate their expectations can have profound effect on students. They help students built their strengths and reduce their weakness to reach their goals successful.
Thomas, in “ The Mind of Man ” explains how girls seem to be rewarded more and boys to be reprimanded more, how boys and girls are treated differently in school.
In education the relationship between teachers and students in the classroom is very important. This relationship helps teachers reach their goals. The teacher has a peculiar job, easy in some ways, and difficult in others. The essential of good teaching is to like the pupils. If we do not like children, give up teaching. Teachers prefer encouragement to discouragement. Their job is to help all their students to be all they can be.
Thomas describes that boys and girls are often treated differently in school. Sometimes boys are favored, sometimes girls are favored. Which ones favored depends on the teacher and the situation. How the teacher exhibits gender bias and what is expected of each sex. Good teachers know the importance of treating boys and girls equally. To treat either group better than the other is unfair. No one like they are being treated differently. All students want to have their teachers like them. My worst experience was during my high school. Whenever I have a new teacher, my emotional goes up. I try to find out on my teacher’s face for any sign of love or acceptance or hate or rejection. I learned in teachers that the sweetest sound to me is the sound of my first or last name. I still remember that I had one teacher who told me “Can I call your last name until your first name? Because “Dao” sounds sweeter than “Dung”. Teachers who learn to remember student’s name early in the first week of the semester have an advantage. They can build good relationships in the classroom. They can decrease discipline problems and increase their strength to reach their goals. Teachers are often successful when they use their skill to encourage children to talk about themselves in ways that help remove their concerns, fears, worries and anxieties to learning.
To quiet their students and to get the students to focus on their work, the teachers should use variety strategies, such as eye contact, warnings, proximity, gentle reminders, nonverbal cues, and gestures. They have no right to jerk or scream.
Culture may be described as socially transmitted behavior patterns, knowledge, values, beliefs, attitudes, and interactions with others, arts, products and thoughts. Teachers are aware of the problems of cross-cultural communication. If a teacher was a racist and yell at a student in front of the whole class because he or she couldn’t understand what his /her teacher required to do, a student will hurt to remember. Good teachers will choose the approach to help students become successful in a second language. Whether students are black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native America, teachers use a variety of strategies to bridge the gap between the different cultures. They seek to understand the students.
To like the young is easy because they are young. They have no mistakes. We do not expect the young to be like ourselves and the people we know learn the peculiar patterns of their thought and emotion just as us want to learn to understand animals. Then we will discover that the inexplicable things they do are easy to understand, the unpardonable things easy to forget.
Children of all age, from careless up to hard-working graduates easily detect the teacher who dislikes them. The teacher must know the young as such. Teachers should understand the principles of the relationships between teacher and students and then draw personal conclusions for their own relationships.
Work Cited
Lunsford, A. Andrea. Ruszkiewics. “The University of Minnesota; Morehouse College; The Evergreen State College; California State University, Monterey Bay; and Thomas Aquinas College Mission Statement.” The Presence of Others. Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewics.Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s. 2000. 51-57.
Thomas, David. “The Mind of Man.” The Presence of Others. Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewics.Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s. 2000. 120-125