Abstract:
Students come in all shapes, sizes, colors, flavors, and of different qualities and quantities. There are no external labels to read indicating quality of the internal product on these various sized and shaped containers. The well known story of the "animal school" adeptly describes the cross section of students in the average class, depicting a student body of ducks, rabbits, squirrels, eagles and eels enrolled in a uniform curriculum of running, climbing, swimming and flying. It does not take much imagination to see that each of those students would excel in parts of that uniform course of study and fail other parts: however, the central theme of this story seems to be in the fact that every student failed because he worked so hard in his weak areas that he couldn't even perform in those areas in which he normally excelled. (Example: the duck failed in swimming because he wore out his web feet trying to pass the running course). Every teacher should review this yarn of the animal school from time to time as he contemplates his relationship with students.
Keywords:
student differences, student-teacher relationships
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