Students making choices....Issue task essay

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Claim: When planning courses, educators should take into account the interests and suggestions of their students.

Reason: Students are more motivated to learn when they are interested in what they are studying.

 

In the learning process the duty of educators to create and design curriculum that would effectively imbibe knowledge on students cannot be undermined. While kids may argue that having their own say in what they learn would bolster their learning process, teachers are equipped with the skills to make students learn. Student input in school curriculum should not be accepted.

Firstly, teachers are more experienced than students, and many of these educators have worked with vast amount of students, for them to know what an average student needs to, at least, suceed. Many students don’t have an idea why they offer a subject before hand, and won’t be able to objectively state it is necessary. But teachers who draw up curriculums are aware that a student not taking a particular subject at a period in his education would be detrimental in the future. Thus, students who don’t have an idea of a particular subject should not be given such priviledge.For example, a student in grade school who scraps out algebra from his curriculum may find it difficult understanding calculus in a future class.

While students are dilletantes, such kind of priviledge may affect the standard of education. Students would choose subjects they find interesting and fun, leaving courses that may be helpful to them outside the academic world. If such a policy is sanctioned, the quality of education would drop- students that don’t have an idea of other subject areas would be rampant. The idea of academics, especially at lower classes is for students to have a broad view of all aspect of life and this idea would be defeated if students have the final say on curriculum decisions.

Furthermore, such a claim would engender feckless students who don’t care to spelunk into alien fields. Education should be encompassing, and students if given the opportunity of choosing subjects will become lazy over time. And most would see no need to move outside their comfort zone.

Although proponents of this claim aver that students would have better understanding, and that tutors would be able to detect the academic foibles of their kids. People should consider the long term effect of giving such largess to kids:  feckless and undereducated students. A society that seeks future development would be inimical to such a pernicious claim.