Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence in an Urban Context

The education system in United States is not a good system. There are many new teachers coming to school, and sometime they don’t have enough educational skills, and they don’t really care about their student. For instance, I have one student in an after school program told me that his daily teacher in school was used their cell phone all the time and listen to music in the classroom, and he said he couldn’t understand his teacher. However, I think the teacher need to show their responsibility to their students, they have to understand their job is to teach and educate our new generation.

In addition, school is not only the place that children can learn new knowledge, parents and family also play an important role in children’s education. Many parents think that if their child doesn’t understand anything, the reason will be they don’t learn anything from the school. Parents also need to help and educate their child, beside just let them go to school. School is a place for children to learn new knowledge, but school is not the only place. I think the way of how students learn is more important. Therefore, parents have to make sure their child understand what they learn from school, because school and parents need to work together.

However, what we are doing is to help children learn and understand new knowledge, but it is also important to let children understand question by themselves. For example, some students are really good in English or any other language, because they like to read and write. The school has set many differences reading level for students, and the reading levels seem to be the motivation for students to read more books in school. Moreover, teacher should explain and teach more high level of learning skill, other than just teaching basic skill. Sometime, teachers would just give the answer to students, and just tell them the way to solve the problem. By the way, teacher should have more knowledge of teaching skill; because they should let students think the question by themselves and let them solve the problem, beside not just tell them the answer.

Many schools don’t have enough money to rebuild their school building, and buy more materials of new technology. Teachers need to have more new materials to educate students, because I think students need to be more diverse in today’s world. In addition, if children don’t have a good learning environment, they won’t get any motivation to learn. It is also important to manage the school hours. Last year, the education department wants to increase the school hours, because they want students to have more time to stay in school. But, I believe that, student also will learn many new knowledge outside of the school building. They have their own friends and family, and also they own cultures. As I mention before, students need to be more diverse, they can’t just learn knowledge from the text book.