Friday, March 16, 2007
The signs of a successful classroom
A successful classroom is one in which it is difficult to discern which students are at the top and which are at the bottom. A class that draws out great levels of participation, attention, and most importantly a thirst for knowledge does a great service for those students involved. The students in a class should be the gauge of its success. The reason the class is there in the first place is to prepare those that are currently not prepared for the future. Although there will inherently exist differences between students, a successful classroom will exhibit the ability to draw out the best in all of its students.
To create a classroom that caters solely to one kind of individual, whose traits and characteristics are known, is easy when compared to the real challenge at hand; create a classroom that caters in some way to everyone throughout a span of years in which it is used. Certainly to create a classroom that makes A students out of every pupil is seemingly impossible; however, it is possible to create a classroom that takes more information into consideration than ever before, aiming to enable its students to create the world that best suits them when their time comes.
To create a classroom that caters solely to one kind of individual, whose traits and characteristics are known, is easy when compared to the real challenge at hand; create a classroom that caters in some way to everyone throughout a span of years in which it is used. Certainly to create a classroom that makes A students out of every pupil is seemingly impossible; however, it is possible to create a classroom that takes more information into consideration than ever before, aiming to enable its students to create the world that best suits them when their time comes.