Just like every other
individual, a teacher has a favorite student. From a class of around 30 to 40
students, a teacher will have 2 to 3 students whom they’ll not just give extra
care and attention but will also consider their voices and opinions when needing
any suggestions.
Don’t you think this is wrong? Why? Because a teacher’s job is not only to
educate their children by imparting knowledge in them but also develop them both
inwardly and outwardly. And how’s that possible? When a teacher focuses and
concentrates on their students so well that they know all their kids, their
personality, knowledge, performance, background, etc.,only then they are able to
groom their students and bring about a positive change in them. They need to
work with a lot of dedication and passion. But surely with all this effort and
hard work, results are visible.
The problem here is that not every teacher does this. Majority of them focus
only on one or two of the individuals. Why does a teacher even have to make
favorite? Why can’t they treat every student of theirs equally? Every individual
student is paying the same fee, sitting in the same classroom, why teachers
differentiate them in their preferential treatment. I believe that every student
should be given respect and an opportunity to advance. Not every kid is same.
They all have different intellects, different pace of learning; some are fast
learners, some are slow. So why give attention only to the ones who are quick
learners. Every student should be respected irrespective of the time they take
in learning. Being a human being, it’s natural to like those kids who are always
prepared for class discussions, are quick learners, active in almost everything,
but since no one should be compared with other; as we all know, we all have our
own departments in which we excel so why to compare one kid who’s bad at
something with a kid who excels in that. Rather what teachers should do is
motivate that kid so that he/ she strive to be a better person in that
particular aspect.
Now the problem in making favorite is that it put other students in inferiority
complex. Even if they excel by trying, they won’t because they don’t feel the
need to nor do they think they have the capability to do so.
If a teacher wants to keep an environment which is conducive to learning within
the class, they should motivate and buck up all their students. And should
inculcate in the weak students the want and the desire to excel by promoting a
healthy competition in class so that rather than getting jealous of the toppers,
the weaker ones try to compete and also make themselves better. And this is only
possible with a teacher’s nonstop efforts.
As I mentioned that every person has their own area of expertise. But what
happens in school is that teachers tend to select only those students who are
confident and reflect that they can participate in any school’s event. My point
is, that there are many other students who due to lack of confidence aren’t
given the opportunity even though they might be having amazing hidden talents.
The confident ones are quickly selected and the others are ignored. I can quote
a personal example here. When I taught grade 5, I was supposed to prepare
students for some event at the school. Rather than selecting the same students
who perform every year, I gave the least confident ones the chance.
There was a kid in my class who was extremely shy but I got to know that he
likes to read naat. So I made him read naatbefore his class and I found out that
he had such an amazing voice. I made him read in front of the whole school. That
was his first time ever on stage but it exposed his talent. I know I gave him
the confidence and made a change in someone’s life who wasn’t previously an
extrovert but later had the guts to confidently participate in any of the
school’s events.