Students of late, are given the mandate to participate in school decision making, but the extent to which this order should be limited is yet to be well addressed. Student being given a voice has resulted in a lot of positive outcomes, but should they be allowed to make their choice of which teacher to teach them and in what class activities. Teachers are obligated to consult student before making any academic moves and the headteachers in schools have used the students in assessing the teachers. This step is quite controversial as the teachers have to maintain good classroom work ethics and be productive, but on the other hand, the teacher’s professionalism is misjudged by students, at times, a factor that is discouraging (Gutmann, & Ben‐Porath,
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From the notion, the school has become democratic, progressive, free and open. The student decision-making idea was incorporated into the education curriculum to fulfill educational ideologies of developmental, holistic, constructivist and learner-centered learning. The total mandate, on the other hand, has not been fully subjected to the student. Students have depicted different behaviors and attitudes in academic, the fact that students are not exclusively allowed to make all the educational choices. In fact, schools have their limits and the student behaviors and attitude are as a result of the controlled student say. The students are more compelled to follow set rules, study a designed curriculum and submit to tests developed by someone and as a result student are left powerless with minimal control of what they are doing academically (Deci, et …show more content…
It is not clear whether to allow the student to make that decision individually or should they utilize the available teachers without choosing. Children have their own interests and wants just like adults and are not puppets over controlling they would not result in the expected outcome. The teacher may apply all available educational mechanism but may fail to change a learner outcome after an assessment is done. While else, when the student is placed in another class setting with a different teacher, different results are generated (Stefanou, et al., 2004). It is due to these observable outcomes, that student choice of teachers is seen as a crucial factor to
From the notion, the school has become democratic, progressive, free and open. The student decision-making idea was incorporated into the education curriculum to fulfill educational ideologies of developmental, holistic, constructivist and learner-centered learning. The total mandate, on the other hand, has not been fully subjected to the student. Students have depicted different behaviors and attitudes in academic, the fact that students are not exclusively allowed to make all the educational choices. In fact, schools have their limits and the student behaviors and attitude are as a result of the controlled student say. The students are more compelled to follow set rules, study a designed curriculum and submit to tests developed by someone and as a result student are left powerless with minimal control of what they are doing academically (Deci, et …show more content…
It is not clear whether to allow the student to make that decision individually or should they utilize the available teachers without choosing. Children have their own interests and wants just like adults and are not puppets over controlling they would not result in the expected outcome. The teacher may apply all available educational mechanism but may fail to change a learner outcome after an assessment is done. While else, when the student is placed in another class setting with a different teacher, different results are generated (Stefanou, et al., 2004). It is due to these observable outcomes, that student choice of teachers is seen as a crucial factor to