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The Reluctant Student – Secondary
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The Reluctant Student – Secondary
Date Added: August 06, 2011 10:57:40 AM
Author: Patrick Speare
Category: Business: Education and Training

In the latter years of my teaching journey I taught students with multiple disabilities. Each student had a mountain of paperwork that accompanied them telling what they could, couldn’t, and would never do as well as lists of diagnoses, reports from numerous therapists and various interventions that had been trialed. As a well respected tutor Brisbane wide, I never bothered reading these when I met the students. Taking a fresh approach Some of my peers obviously thought this was due to laziness others may have thought I was opinionated and thought I knew it all and still others felt I undervalued both the student and the learned opinions of others. However, always being somewhat controversial, the decision to not gather a knowledge base of each student prior to meeting them was a conscious and calculated decision (I don’t like to think of it as a risk). I needed to form my own knowledge base and not be limited by the opinions of others nor be overwhelmed by the expectations of some. Sure, I eventually read them, sometimes I concurred and yet other times I reached my own, very different conclusions. That is, the nature of the human mind. You see, when a child I was labeled and when I worked out what the label meant I began to foster it and mould it as part of my personality with each level of reinforcement. The inherent fault in the system I was part of the inaugural group of students who entered high school as a year eight never having been granted the rite of passage that was called Scholarship. With us came a cohort of primary school teachers in order to balance the student, teacher ratio. Not only did the teachers come but their baggage came too. In the comments of my year seven report was the statement that I had ‘an attitude’ - needless to say my mother was mortified but could hardly be surprised considering her school day exploits. No doubt this information was passed about during staffroom banter and given I already had siblings at the high school and an unusual German surname I was an easy mark for the German teacher’s misguided wit. I was labeled. Now, I actually know this still happens under the respectability of networking, hand-overs or whatever the latest catchphrase is. It is absurd to think that labeling doesn’t influence, either consciously or subconsciously, attitudes, behavior and expectations of all parties concerned. Here's how a tutor will bring out your best It is into this realm that a personal tutor Sydney can be so beneficial. When the student believes in his/her ability then others are automatically put on notice. A tutor comes to you with a fresh palette knowing only that you need something explained a different way, perhaps again or maybe as is often the case you don’t know what it is you are wanting or needing. If so, don’t worry because that’s their job - to gather a knowledge base about you minus any pre-conceived ideas from others and to build a learning experience with you that will set you up for your future. All the best with the next phase of your life. http://www.personaltutors.com.au
 
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