week 3 blog

I believe that college is not so much of a preparation stage for a future career, as many people like to believe. A lot of the time people don’t even get a job in the field that studied in college. Most of the time employers really do not care what your degree was in, they are more interested in the fact that you started something and worked hard for four years to accomplish a goal. I also believe that college is in large a maturity stage, it gives students an extra 2, 4, 5, 6… to still be kids before they need to become adults. College, however, does also educate people, that is the main purpose behind it, no one would want to go to a doctor with only a high school diploma no matter how smart the individual.
My ideal classroom would be one where the teacher and the students are looked upon as equals. Where the teacher doesn’t so much try to stand and teach, but provides real life learning experiences for the students to understand just how the subject matter will relate to his or her life. Some homework is educational and needs to be assigned, but often times “busy work” is assigned because the teacher has run out of ideas to teach. For example, if you are teaching an art class, I believe, it would be more beneficial to the students if you had an actual artist come demonstrate techniques rather than have an instructor teach about how to draw.