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Michelle Parobczyk

Dr.Smith

ENG 101 B24O

October 27, 2017

Education

Education, as well as educating somebody, is defined as having people either receive, or

give out specific knowledge for people to remember, most likely at a school. Now a days,

students in schools tend to claim that schools are not providing them with enough information

that students should be getting. In order for students to gain more critical thinking skills, the

collegiate educational experience can be improved by having more teachers use the Problem

Posing Method during their lessons.

The Problem Posing Method is a method in which being cognitive is always in

action. To be cognitive means to take in the senses of perception, memory, judgement and

reasoning in order to process knowledge into ones mind. As said in the article The Banking

Concept Of Education by Paulo Freire, this method would be very reasonable when falling

under the topic of education because it is a method that challenges students when they are

learning a new topic. When a student is challenged, it leads them to put in more effort into their

work and school as well as has them using their brain more. Being challenged gives students a

better understanding on the topic they are learning about. The most useful idea about the
Problem Posing Method is that the teacher and student relationship is never divided. When

using the word divided, the relationship between what the teacher is teaching the student never

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goes off topic. Since being cognitive is always taking place during this method, the students are

always able to process what they are being taught. No matter if they are processing that

knowledge through perception, memorization, judgement or reasoning. The teacher is never

narrative however is always cognitive. When the teacher is teaching a class, being cognitive is

definitely considered into taking initiative, however, it is not only when the teacher is teaching.

The Problem Posing Method is to also take place during projects, homeworks etc. The teacher is

always there prepared to answer any questions or provide the students with any help that they

need. Students are no longer sitting in a classroom just to listen to what a teacher is saying, they

are now taking that knowledge into deeper meaning by asking questions and having a dialogue

with the teacher. Teachers are to teach the students what they are to know, however, the teachers

job is not only to teach, but to take in consideration on what students have to say about the lesson

as well. The main purpose of the Problem Posing Method is for teachers and students to come

together to make one whole.

In the article New Book Lays Failure To Learn On Colleges Doorsteps students say

they finish their years in school coming out with not much more knowledge than they knew

when they first started school. After taking the CLA exam (Collegiate Learning Assessment) the

article states Thirty-six percent of the students saw no statistically significant gains in their CLA

scores between their freshman and senior years. There may be several reasonings behind this
such as students are not getting taught the right information that they should be getting taught, or

students may not be spending an appropriate amount of time studying. Richard Arum and Josipa

Roska, two sociologists who went into deeper study about these students who are not learning

much in school, found that students only devote twelve hours of studying per week. One reason

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behind students devoting not much time into studying may be because of the fact that their

teachers do not expect much of them, meaning the class may not be so demanding. If these

students were taught in a classroom in which the teacher was using the Problem Posing Method,

there is a very high chance that the students would come out of their senior year with much more

knowledge than what they knew during their freshmen year.