Blog 2

To be a good student when referring to the common sense we attain, we refer to the student as a student who participates, listens, follows the rules, pays attention and receives high grades. Meeting expectations assigned by the teacher also makes a good student. Students who receive the title of being a good student are also one that does not obtain learning disabilities which is hugely wrong. A good student sometimes also depends on the home in which they come from and how the student is brought up. For example, if the child is not taught manners growing up the child will not go into the classroom with manners which may label the child as a “bad student”. Kumashrio explains, “The student entered school with prior knowledge from family, the topic community, the media, and their own life experiences” (pg. 24). Kumashrio believes that students who come into the classroom with prior learning experiences are led to succeed in school more than the students who are not granted these opportunities at home. When I had been put into preschool my mother and grandmother would read with me every night. With this early learning, I was at a higher reading level than all my peers. Another way early learning at home can help the child in the classroom helps to allow them to enjoy learning and stay engaged. A history of education states, “The national education is at once a cause and an effect of the national character; and accordingly, the history of education affords the only ready and perfect key to the history of the human race, and of each nation in it an unfailing standard for estimating its advance or retreat upon the line of human progress.”