What Causes Under-achievement in students?
Answer: Student Laziness? Occasionally.
Answer: Bad teaching methods? Probably!!
An education problem needs to be traced back to the
cause of the problem, which is usually educational in its
nature.
The student’s basics from earlier years are likely to
be weak in a subject or subjects, and need
clarification before the current work can be
understood.
The educator needs to understand this, and be
prepared to rebuild what ever the student missed.
In my experience, the problems that develop in the
schooling of young people are mainly caused by the
education systems themselves - and the educators’
methods of teaching.
Weaknesses are ignored for too long. A student’s
basic foundations are permitted to remain shaky so
that he or she is unable to handle later work because
earlier steps were not firmly in place etc.
It is important to note that ‘disability’ in students can
sometimes actually be brought about by our
education systems. If you teach a student badly
enough for long enough, there is a good chance that the
student will become ‘disabled’ in one or more subjects.
Fortunately such disability can usually be reversed
with help from an aware and patient educator.
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