I think that Mr. harvey had his students' best interest at mind, but I feel that he was going about it the wrong way. Telling the students that they were horrible would probably not get his students to learn Standard English any quicker. In fact, I think that it would actually make them not want to learn it. I agree with him that the students do need to learn Standard English to have better lives in adulthood. I feel that the students would get stuck in mediocre jobs if they spoke pidgin.
I think that Mr. Harvey was very rude to his students. He had good intentions, but I do not feel that he was a good teacher. You need to be kind to get children to listen to you. If you are rude or belittleing the students will have more of a tendency to rebel against the teacher and loathe being im the class with them. If the children are praised for what they were doing right they would be more likely to listen to the teacher and take in and actually learn what the teacher is teaching.
Hello, I totally agree with you, Mr Harvey was a bad influence on the kids. Kids learn willingly, and when they get put down, their motivation goes down. I think Mr. Harvey had no idea to communicate with the kids mentally. He pushes them, and made them less interested. Kids learn by doing and not by getting yelled at.
ReplyDeleteI guess you can say he was a strict teacher but with good intentions. There could have to other better alternatives to deal with the children in a nicer way.
Thanks, Lesley
Michelle,
ReplyDeleteI agree that Mr. Harvey should have went about his teaching in a different way. Maybe he was just unhappy with his job. I don't think many people do well with critism and that the more you can encourage children, the better they will learn. I firmly believe this and not just with education but sports as well. I have 5 kids and none of them do well in an environment of negativity or critism. With my kids you get a lot more out of them when you tell them how good they are doing at something and then if there is room for improvement to put it in a positive way. I couldn't learn well in that kind of environment.
Thanks for sharing.
Dina
I wrote about Mr. Harvey too not being a great or even a good teacher. Mr. Harvey may have had good intentions but went in a totally wrong direction in teacher the kids. Myself working with kids everyday I know to be "rude or belittle" the kids. Not only would thins make me not look good, it would have no positive effect in teaching. You also stated that you have to catch kids doing things right and I totally agree with that. This is someone I try to do as often as I can. You can see a great learning curve in catching kids doing someone thing right then focusing on the bad and negative.
ReplyDeleteHi Michelle - I completely agree with you. In fact I had my own similar experience with my Spanish teacher when I was in seventh grade. He literally cut me down in front of the whole class because he felt I wasn't doing a good enough job learning Spanish. He ended up apologizing soon thereafter, but the damage was done. I completely lost my desire to learn Spanish. I do believe Mr. Harvey had good intentions but he certainly went about it the wrong way.
ReplyDeleteThank you,
Sarah Baker