This week in class we read two articles: A History of Education and Preparing Teachers for Crisis: What It Means to Be a Student. To summarize A History of Education introducuces us to the ideas of education in China and India. We are told the way that society works and how this inadvertently affects the classroom. The article Preparing Teachers for Crisis: What it means to Be a Student walks the reader through a teachers experiences and struggles with students. They explained that students are not bad or unwilling to learn but may not learn in the same way as other students do and that we must adpat and consider students past. 
To be a “good” student according to commonsense a child must sit quiet when asked to, follow along with the class, and learn in a manner that is similar to every other child. Also, to be considered a “good” student a child must come into a classroom with no past knowledge or information from past experiences, parental advice, or wrong information.
A “good” student is shaped by historical factors because a student brings every experience from their past with them into a classroom. Whether good or bad a student is influenced from these experiences and the way we teach must be altered for them.
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Ashley Oryschak
Hey Meghan,
I like how you added the historical factor that could affect how the students learn. They all have different experiences depending on who they are, what they have been exposed to, and the environment around them. We as teachers need to be aware of these factors because some situations could be out of their control leaving them just as frustrated or even, more frustrated than we are. Thank you for sharing your input! how do you think teachers could be more aware of their student’s history while also respecting their individual boundaries?