2008 Woodie Awards
Chabot College Professors brainstorm ideas to engage students in their own education.
Issue date: 3/22/07 Section: Editorials
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Imagine standing in front of a room of 30 or so students and being expected to motivate them all to be interested in what you're teaching.
In case you can't or don't want to, then try to remember a time when you were faced with your failing grade in a class and determined that it was the fault of the teacher… "They couldn't teach."
Now how many countless times have we heard that excuse fly out of our fellow classmates' mouths or even out of our own? It seems like nowadays there are so many of us who are determined to find something wrong with Chabot that we are willing to put the blame anywhere else but ourselves.
The truth of the matter is, though that we as a society have, it's become so ingrained with the idea that we are owed an education that we often leave all the motivating up to the teachers. We no longer assume the responsibilities of learning for ourselves.
Just a few weeks ago, Chabot teachers spent a whole day wracking their brains trying to figure out how to motivate their students to become more involved in their own education! How sad is it that we have to have others push us to learn?
We would like to think that most of us consider ourselves adults but why is it that we can't even muster the initiative to strive for something that will only help ourselves in the end?
This confounds us; we are so wrapped up in our own social lives, home lives, and such that we don't ever seem to have time for our own educations. Then we go on to blame others who are only here to help.
Now we'll give you all the benefit that not all teachers are in it for the students but the majority of them are interested in their students. The problem is that we don't take enough interest in ourselves.
Maybe instead of concentrating so hard on badmouthing Chabot and its curriculum we should involve ourselves in our futures.
These teachers and their pushing will not last forever and when those of us who choose to transfer do so, many of us will get the rude awakening of the real world.
In previous issues of the Chabot Spectator we have gone over numerous ways that you can get involved in your own education.
So we really don't feel the need to reiterate those points. It's really up to you what you get out of the Chabot experience. Don't expect the teachers or this paper to do the motivating for you.
In case you can't or don't want to, then try to remember a time when you were faced with your failing grade in a class and determined that it was the fault of the teacher… "They couldn't teach."
Now how many countless times have we heard that excuse fly out of our fellow classmates' mouths or even out of our own? It seems like nowadays there are so many of us who are determined to find something wrong with Chabot that we are willing to put the blame anywhere else but ourselves.
The truth of the matter is, though that we as a society have, it's become so ingrained with the idea that we are owed an education that we often leave all the motivating up to the teachers. We no longer assume the responsibilities of learning for ourselves.
Just a few weeks ago, Chabot teachers spent a whole day wracking their brains trying to figure out how to motivate their students to become more involved in their own education! How sad is it that we have to have others push us to learn?
We would like to think that most of us consider ourselves adults but why is it that we can't even muster the initiative to strive for something that will only help ourselves in the end?
This confounds us; we are so wrapped up in our own social lives, home lives, and such that we don't ever seem to have time for our own educations. Then we go on to blame others who are only here to help.
Now we'll give you all the benefit that not all teachers are in it for the students but the majority of them are interested in their students. The problem is that we don't take enough interest in ourselves.
Maybe instead of concentrating so hard on badmouthing Chabot and its curriculum we should involve ourselves in our futures.
These teachers and their pushing will not last forever and when those of us who choose to transfer do so, many of us will get the rude awakening of the real world.
In previous issues of the Chabot Spectator we have gone over numerous ways that you can get involved in your own education.
So we really don't feel the need to reiterate those points. It's really up to you what you get out of the Chabot experience. Don't expect the teachers or this paper to do the motivating for you.
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