The Student-Athelete

The phrase student-athlete means alot of things to people in college. Coachs expect their students to excell in the classroom as well as on the pitch. School directors see it as a student should be honored to be participating in both aspects of college life. But, in our case, what does it mean to be a student-athlete at the high school level?
At most schools, students that are athletes genuinely love the sport. They love it so much that the educaton part of it falls behind. Now, the question is, whos takes the blame for the lack of responsibility of the student-athlete?

1: The student has been advised that they come to school to recieve the best education that can be possibly offered to them. No matter what the circumstances are, the school does everything possible to give them that respect. Is the student really understanding what can happen after when the four years of high school sports are done?

2: The coach has to be a counselor, a mentor, and just and all around good person around the student. The coach has to let the students know about positive outcomes and negative outcomes when it comes to school. Grades are more important then goals or baskets. How many coaches really have the right intentions with their student-athletes?

3. The parents play an important role here. The parents should be aware of how their child is doing in school. They should be more active in the childs' success in the classroom and on the field. The student-athlete should be supervised by their guardians in order to accomplish a lot of goals in high school.

The student-athlete should realize that playing a sport is a priviledge not a right. Sports come second in the phrase "student'athlete".

First lesson Evaluated!!!

This past week was my first time teaching in front of my supervising teacher. I was really nervous because I had not met him before, plus i was getting used to the class being the way it is. I had prepared a lesson for the senior class. They are getting ready for the IB program testing. This test will help the seniors graduate better prepared to face any educational obstacul around the world. The lesson was focused on how to interpret poetry and to identify what literary resources were used to get the main idea across to the reader. The lesson started off with a warm up so the students were be ready to face this challenge. The warm up was to divide every word in a paragraph by syllables. By doing this, the students would identify where the stress of the accentuation in a word would be. The students got a good idea on how to pronounce words in order to identify the acentuation.

The next step was to go around the room reading a poem. The students read the poem. I actually was really surprise how they read that day. Tha pronounciation was on point and their time was great. When we read the poem, I asked the class to coe up with a few conclusons of the meaning of the poem. The students responded to the poem greatly. They understood that poems are much more than art. They show whats going on in society. They show how the author is responding to life in general. With this poem, they will have more than enough topics to write about in the essay part of their test.