Steven M. Cahn in his article Guiding, Grading, and Guarding, is about several aspects in the life of a Teacher. How to make students comprehend the session’s teachers taught, the problem with the grading system, and the trouble a professor faces controlling a classroom they fear. This article could not be any more accurate about the problems we face in our school systems. Dr. Cahn describes how great teachers not only motivate their students, teach the material at hand, and organize a classroom, but also provide a vision of excellence. Describing how teachers have to enter a new classroom with a goal of the progression of its students in mind. Only then will they know the progression of the student as the course goes along. “Classrooms are
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The problem with this system is now students worry more about the grade they are aiming for instead of actually comprehending the material the professor is trying to feed them. Cahn believes this traditional system is the best way to grade a student, but with the overall performance of the student. Some students are abysmal at taking test, however soak up the information like a sponge. Other students are good at memorizing the information even if they do not know the information given and pass the exam, but after a week cannot tell you what they have learned. There are certain holes in the grading system and inappropriately most teachers look at the grades in exams to collect how much knowledge a student …show more content…
Many professors, especially in Universities are viewed through a student 's eye. The fact that a teacher 's advancement, reappearance, or tenure is in the hands of a youth is not only incorrect but frightening. Cahn has a very valid point when he states “How are students going to know if the sources the professors use on the material up to date?” Individuals who are not masters in the topic in which you discuss cannot be the ones who tell you how knowledgeable in a topic one is. Cahn brings up a great example of his personal life, describing how he had two separate math classes. One was algebra, and in that class the flow was very slow and repetitive. At the time he felt like he did not gather any new information. Also to a trigonometry course in which was fast paced and very enjoyable. Yet years later he saw that he had remembered almost everything in his algebra class but couldn’t do basic
The problem with this system is now students worry more about the grade they are aiming for instead of actually comprehending the material the professor is trying to feed them. Cahn believes this traditional system is the best way to grade a student, but with the overall performance of the student. Some students are abysmal at taking test, however soak up the information like a sponge. Other students are good at memorizing the information even if they do not know the information given and pass the exam, but after a week cannot tell you what they have learned. There are certain holes in the grading system and inappropriately most teachers look at the grades in exams to collect how much knowledge a student …show more content…
Many professors, especially in Universities are viewed through a student 's eye. The fact that a teacher 's advancement, reappearance, or tenure is in the hands of a youth is not only incorrect but frightening. Cahn has a very valid point when he states “How are students going to know if the sources the professors use on the material up to date?” Individuals who are not masters in the topic in which you discuss cannot be the ones who tell you how knowledgeable in a topic one is. Cahn brings up a great example of his personal life, describing how he had two separate math classes. One was algebra, and in that class the flow was very slow and repetitive. At the time he felt like he did not gather any new information. Also to a trigonometry course in which was fast paced and very enjoyable. Yet years later he saw that he had remembered almost everything in his algebra class but couldn’t do basic