When school time is not enough . . .

Have you ever thought about what are your children doing at school? Are they
being part of a good process of learning, or they are just loosing their time there? Could you prove that they are inside of a classroom with a teacher who is worried about their learning? Maybe not?! These lines can be useful and you can be impressed about it. So please, relax and analyze!

It’s such a nice experience being part of a school. However, sometimes we are witnesses of some situations which are escaping of our hands. One day, I got shocked because my ELAB’s teacher, Rina Vega, stayed one hour inside classroom. Was she re-viewing contents? No! She was worried about other things! Students were just playing cards and she was worried about Independence Day. English? No thanks! Maybe that day, English was absent at school.
If we think about this situation, lots of questions come to our minds. It’s necessary to clarify which factors are involved in this problem. However, the only thing that is very clear is that students are not learning at school! They are the only victims of this entire problem, and the responsibility escapes of their hands. But it’s necessary to go beyond that. What are the consequences this problem brings? One hour lost means one hour in which contents and values can be taught, and students can learn new things. One hour lost means one hour in which students feel frustrated and disappointed about their school. And this situation cannot happen anymore.

But why does this situation happen? If we need to identify who is the main
responsible of this, all the arrows go to the teacher. The responsibility of all the things inside classroom is the teacher’s. And if we look this reality, we can identify her as the
person who needs to organize, help and stimulate students in order to reach good learning. But if we are in presence of situations in which students are playing instead studying, the tasks are not reached and the school is not improving in order to give a good education to students. If we look around this school, we can note that this reality is not unique. Several teachers were worried about this holiday, and it seems that nobody cares about students. But one thing which is impressive is that teachers are not worried about this. I mean, it’s OK to spend time in beautiful scenes about our national day (who did not do that?) but, when you have a class which is not achieving the minimum contents about the subject, it’s necessary to spend time well! You cannot give your back to students and think that everything is great and we can have a rest! At the end, students feel frustrated and disappointed about themselves, because they cannot have a good learning, but this is due to behavior inside classroom, and this reality is not looked in a way it needs to change. And that makes everything more difficult!

At the end of this analysis, we can conclude that to this problem is not given all the
importance it has. That the teachers are not thinking in a critical way about their jobs. That inside classrooms sometimes are problems which are not solved, and the main responsible of them is not worried about them. But what can we do about it? It’s necessary to think and ask to our students about their lessons. To be involved in our children’s education. To help them in order to reach a good education. If we can follow these tips, we can be and feel great with ourselves. If we teachers do not worry about our children, we can do it!