A Young Man's Struggle


When I read "The Poor Scholar's Soliloquy", I felt very sorry for this young man who has not been given the chance succeed by his teachers. After reading it and discussing it with my group, we came up with a problems with the instructional strategies used by the teachers and figured out some solutions to them. One of the problems we discussed was that the teachers weren't working with this boys strengths to help his succeed. The constructivist strategy that we concluded would be best be used to approach his inability to memorize the names of the Presidents would be to help him build mental models and increase knowledge transfer to help him understand complex/abstract ideas and concepts. Another example is when the teacher in the story had a complete disregard for her students attempt at making a real world connection to her material, and we thought a solution to this would be to build upon the students prior knowledge, using things they already know to teach them such as in simulations.
This was an eye-opening article because it made me realize that not all students have the greatest experiences in school, and if I ever have a student who is struggling to learn I should be sympathetic and use my knowledge from this article to avoid the mistakes that this young man's teachers made with him.

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