Banking And Problem-Posing Analysis

Freire’s concept of “Banking” and Problem –Posing have several general characteristics. Banking teachers follow text and or curriculum guides by grade level and date. Paper and pencil are the major methods of testing, and normally student’s grades are determined by test at the end of a learning section. Whereas Problem-posing teachers identify long range objectives, review task, and rapidly proceeds in validating learning. They use instruction based on a continuum that leads to long range goals, and they expect all students to earn an A or B, but in a various amount of time.
Banking teachers don’t like their knowledge to be tested they feel that the teacher teaches and the student are to be taught, the teacher knows everything and the student know little to nothing, the teacher enforces his or her choices and the students have no choice but to comply. There was a time when my teacher was having a discussion about fire. My teacher said it is physically impossible for any human to with stand a burning fire, because fire is a substance combined with oxygen and chemicals from the …show more content…
In any scenario the banking concept and problem-posing needs to allow the education of learning provide the necessary utensils and practice to prepare students for what to come. I’m not saying anyone’s concept is wrong but I believe everyone should look at situation and scenarios with the problem-posing eye, because it’s not all about the teacher having all the knowledge. Students are just as capable of teaching a teacher something she didn’t know before. To have the mind set of you know everything and everyone else know nothing; is not a good way to go about life. You should allow every moment of your life to be a teachable moment; you could always learn something you didn’t know the day before. Paulo Freire put it best by saying “Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of