Oanh Hoang

Professor Monique Williams

English 1A

3 October 2012

 

During the schooling hours, teachers have the obligation to instruct his or her class effectively by giving class lectures and enabling students to collaborate in groups to share one’s personal opinion and ideas with one another, and along with having the right tools for teachers to use in order to advance his or her students learning. Attending a poorly funded school, students aren’t able to meet the expectations of a concept that they’re being teach “because the children do not have appropriate equipment, there are no variables to be observed.  Children in water play in a pre-kindergarten class would learn as much scientific process as these eighth grade kids are learning” (Kazol, Jonathan 140). Students don’t understand the lesson that their instructor is intending to deliver so they are insisted to keep experimenting. The eight grade students at Pyne Point Junior High, located besides Delaware River, was being taught about how the waves form and the students aren’t clearly recognizing the scientific process of what is being tested so they clarify with the wrong answer. The eighth grade students don’t have the materials to really have a deep understanding on why things happen the way they do during their wave experiment so Students wrote in their notebooks, “water splashes” which isn’t correct and therefore, proves that the eighth grade students aren’t fully understanding the science objective so they are slowly falling behind on the knowledge of what his or her teacher is intentionally teaching. The students aren’t to blame because they’re in need of science materials and without the right science tools for the science class, students won’t recognize the phenomena that they’re instructed to observe. Although they are supplied with cheap plastic cocktail glasses, those tools will not be useful because the plastic cocktail glasses aren’t the proper science material and it will affect their learning, allowing them to draw the wrong conclusions during their wave experiment.  Moreover, what they need are saucers with a wide circumference because the he saucers will enable the students to see the water surface, the ripples that are forming after each drop of water and students will be able to give a strong answer of water forming circles until it reaches the circumference of the container. Quality materials are a necessity because it will help teachers to effectively educate his or her students, allowing every child to proficiently identify the intended concept of a certain lesson that is being taught.

 Besides the effective teaching from teachers who have materials to provide to his or her classroom, school materials are important because it helps advance a student’s learning ability. Students will gain more knowledge if they have alternative ways that will help them review what has been taught or spoken in class and with tangible resources supplied in a classroom, it allows a child to further educate themselves. For instance, a number of teachers..do not have books for half the students in their classes” (Kazul 138) at Pyne Point  Junior High, so the parents of those students don’t know what they’re missing and therefore, make no demands. The children who attend the high school is being poorly educated due to lack of materials.  Students need books for their certain classes with different subjects and majority of their teachers aren’t able to provide that material for them so students will feel like they’re falling behind because he or she aren’t provided with the book that they’re supposed to have in the first place.  With no book supplied to a child, he or she won’t be able to participate with the rest of the class and the children who are provided with their class book because there can be class discussion going on or even group chats about what they have been reading and learning about, and the student who’s bookless will feel left out and unable to connect. Also, without a book, students won’t be able to finish homework that have been assigned regard to their class book.  All the questions that they’re supposed to answer is directly from the book and if one lacks the class resource, she or she will have a hard time catching up with the rest of the students and lessons that have been taught from their instructor, and moreover; students won’t be able to study proficiently for an upcoming test because all the information that they need to know and what might show up on their test is from the book.   Students won’t be able to prepare themselves so the lack of their class book effects their knowledge and what they need to obtain in order to pass their exam with a good grade.  Classrooms in every school should provide class materials for every student because without the needed resources, students won’t have an advantage to succeed throughout their classes.

Despite the effectiveness of school materials and how it can help a child, it is important that the school supply students with the classroom materials that is required and the facility that enable students to perform their activities at because it builds a more positive attitude within a student.  The lack of materials can effect a child emotionally and if one attend a school that doesn’t provide enough resources and materials, it will therefore, cause students to consume a negative attitude and they will feel unsuccessful and unhappy about coming to school every morning. Children in New Jersey, those who are part of the track team has to do most of its running in the hallways of school, it buys a minimum of exercise..”(Kazul 157). Members of the track team doesn’t have a decent field where they can practice and improve their running skills and therefore, are instructed to run in the school building where classes are in session.  High school students in East Orange receive physical education which benefits there health, but although they get an amount of exercise, the school is in need of many things: P.E gym, soccer balls, basketballs and lacrosse equipment, jump ropes and a dance studio. The absence of sport equipment effects the school because it doesn’t allow them to have athletic programs. It will make the children upset because there are students who are very athletic and are interested in sports and they don’t have a chance to enjoy their favorite sport, and moreover; to improve on building team sportsmanship because playing a sport teachers a child to work as a team, instead of counting on oneself. Furthermore, with many students in a class, a child will have to take turn and share the equipment.  Children would have to wait for 15 minutes for a chance to hold a jump rope which will build frustration within a child because he or she wouldn’t know if the other student is willing to share or not, and by the time it’s the other child’s turn to use the jump rope, P.E session will be over and it’ll leave children sad because they aren’t able to have fun and do what they love during their P.E class. Sport equipment is important within a child’s education because it brings pleasure and happiness, a positive attitude, and it reminds children that education can bring fun.