Essay On Problem Posing

The students at Perspectives IIT/Math and Science Academy followed a fairly disciplined schedule. With two hours of math and science, and an hour for other required classes, the goal of the school was get students to work on becoming critical thinkers. However, being in the longer class periods did not always provide this service, unlike the shorter periods. Based on Freire’s idea of the banking concept of education and problem-posing education, the two hour classes were more likely to demonstrate the banking concept due to teachers depositing information and having their students retain it for future tests and quizzes, while in the one hour classes, students demonstrate problem-posing education from receiving information and using it to thinking critical rather than reserve the new knowledge.
In their algebra class, a two hour period, students experienced both the banking concept and problem-posing in the classroom. In the first semester of the school year, during the first hour of the class, the teacher would stand in front of the room and instruct his students step-by-step on how to complete challenging math problems. The students would sit at their desk and silently watch the lecture while taking notes. There would be no communication between the teacher and students, unless the teacher was interrupted by a student that had a question. Though after the question was answered, the lecture would …show more content…
In algebra, a two hour class, students had a mixture of both the banking concept and problem posing education. Here students displayed their critical thinking skills from the problem posing side and again in their one hour classes, AP English and NFTE, which was almost entirely problem posing. In spite of the school’s goal to get students to show this ability in their double period classes, the students focused more on problem solving in other