The Classroom with Immaculacy by Isaiah

The Classroom with Immaculacy by Isaiah - October 2014 Scholarship Essay

The ideal classroom environment is one of legend that only the most serious of students’ dream of. There are multiple prerequisites that this classroom must meet to reach perfection.

Volume; the amount of students in said classroom is crucial. The reason volume is extremely important is because there may be a handful of inquisitive students and not all questions will be answered if the professor has a specific amount of material that needs to be taught in the given amount of time. The amount of time allotted in the classroom must be appropriate for whatever material being taught. For example, if a professor is teaching Circuit analysis and Design; 45 minutes will be far from the desired amount of time to have the material thoroughly explained and questions answered. At last we’re at the final qualification: type of student.

All above prerequisites can be neutralized by the types of students in the perfect classroom. The reason behind this is that if students are disruptive, immature, or arrogant; this may hinder classroom performance and lower morale of students who are ambitious in learning. Being disruptive in class is obviously going to decrease the efficiency of learning and possibly anger the professor; which no one wants. An immature student can easily get themselves in trouble and when this inevitably happens, class time is wasted by the student getting chastised for whatever reason. Arrogance can be considered as a slightly modified version of disruptive behavior. For example, if a student knows a particular aspect of lecture they may want to share their thoughts in the matter causing time to be wasted and the possibility of not meeting today’s goal in material covered can be detrimental to the class. Not only have I experienced students of these kind but also the rude and arrogant ones. They have the frequent tendency to do boastful yawns of dissatisfaction, scoff at questions that are supposedly simple to them, and the occasional conversing with others while the professor lectures on what they seem to know.

How this perfect classroom will help me succeed in my quest for knowledge is that the level of comfort in the described classroom above will cause an exponential growth in learning. I will no longer be hesitant on the type of question I ask, nor will I fear the reaction of others when it’s asked. Self-doubt and feelings of inferiority will be a thing of the past. Sometimes you can’t help but feel like you’re on a lower level than everyone else when you’re the one constantly asking questions for further understanding. In conclusion, if this type of classroom does exist, I hope that I will be fortunate enough to be enrolled in it.