Students Should Be Given More Choice As To What They
Study
Introduction
Nowadays there is the discontent with the given
education system among the students of many schools. There are many discussions
on these problems and in most cases they unfortunately still remain unsolved. A
lot of students want to have the choice of what they want to study. In this
essay I would like to discuss the reasons of many problems students encounter
in the educational sphere.
Our problems
Pupils experience displeasure for several main
reasons. First, many students often come across with the difficulty of the
educational program. Curriculum in the present time is very volumetric and
moreover includes set of knowledge which in the future will not be useful.
Second, the educational environment is not always kept
at high level. The school climate should be pleasant that it was pleasant for
pupil to study. However, the majority of all these questions rest on the means
of this or that educational institution.
Third, teaching sometimes offers a difficulty and is
beyond students’ comprehension, because of poor-quality training aids and
appliances, frequently given not in the native language. Furthermore there is
usually the lack and inaccessibility of good school supplies pupils can rely
on.
Our achievements
On the other hand government is trying to extract more
money onto the support of increasing the level of education in their area. We
may notice many changes comparing educational atmosphere ten years ago and at
this time.
Many school classes are well-equipped with the latest
technologies available: lingo-phonic equipment, projectors used for different
presentations, TV-sets for watching cognitive materials, music systems for
getting students to have a rest during their hard day, and etc.
More and more schools get computerized with the help
of various sponsors coming from all over the world, who invest money in the
education to get future professionals for their companies. These are the great
steps made to help young people get quality education. We are coming to the new
era that requests more and more qualified people got in.
Suggestions
I suppose that the solutions to the program of
training less volumetric are the following: to enter classes with loading on
the certain subject and classes with additional division into groups on
amplified training subjects (additional subjects, “at a choice”, exist at many
schools: self-defense, sea business, floristics, additional languages, economy,
computer science, the doctrine about family).
Speaking about the educational environment - the
school climate should be pleasant that it was pleasant for pupil to study.
Consultations concerning an occupation are needed as
well. There are two experts, structural units, needed for facilitate in a
choice of a profession: the psychologist and a good class teacher. From my
point of view it is definitely necessary to bring in a special post, for the
help in a choice of a profession and to introduce practice in twelfths grade
necessary for reception of representation about an occupation.
Much depends on the person and how the teacher will
incite pupils in relation to itself. The explanation plays very important role
because we go to school to listen to live people. However additional and
regular work at home is very important.
For this purpose there come a various sort of the textbooks to out help.
We need clearer explanation of materials that it will be understandable without
the teacher, more correct drawing up. Apart from the abstracts at a lesson it
will be useful to organize the scanning of textbooks and a placement of files in
the Internet network together with storing them on CD-ROM disks.
System of the assessment based on the credits is not
so perfect. Bad problem of automatic decrease of a mark when resiting the
examinations persists. Also, I think that taking into the account of personal
aspect at assessment is unfair. Concerning system of state examinations I would
like to say that the responsibility to go on those subjects on which you will
pass the examinations suits not all the persons.
Conclusion
It is necessary to think of the reception of such
education, having which it would be possible to work all life without fear to
lose a workplace. It is very sad, when the person thinks, that he/she can work
on any work and consequently the tradition of professionals of the affair is
lost.
We need to attract more people who will help us to
develop a good and reliable educational system. We should attract more
investors, showing them the perspectives of their contributions on the example
of our current progressive successes achieved.
At all, to realize created model of an ideal school is
not so simple. There are many steps to be done in order to get to the finish
line. Again and again many aspects of this affair turn on the economical means.
People taking care of prosperity of their country in a
whole should think of giving a freedom to the students, to give more choice and
abilities to what the students want to study. Only then we will get good
results, people who know well what they are doing.
I want to finish my essay with the idea that the
school should be a place where the pupil wants to go and where he or she is
expected!