Reason Students Hates Certain Subject

14 Nov 2020

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Both in the past, present and future, every student must have a minimum of hated subjects. While hating, as the lesson progresses, the student show his insincerity to follow the lesson, such as sleeping, busiing himself, either by doing other subject assignments or by playing games on a laptop.

And of course, students have reasons for hating certain subject. And these are some of the reasons.

1. Teacher who fail

The teacher represents the parents of students at the school assigned to educate the students to understand a lesson. Teacher who fail is teacher who cannot make the students understand. Based on journal Improving College and University Teaching (Rickman & Hollowell, 1981), there are several reasons the teacher could be considered fail, like:

  • Lack of knowledge of subject matter
  • Lack of motivation
  • Inability to relate well with students
  • Poor teaching methods

Therefore, if the teacher cannot make the students to understand, the students become reluctant to attend the class hatred for the subject is formed.

2. Provision of homework that only burden students

Based on the journal Rethinking Homework (Kohn, 2007), the facts about homework are as follows:

  • The negative effects of homework are well-known (make student exhausted, reducing most of the free time, etc)
  • The positive effects of homework are mostly myths
  • More homework is being piled on children despite the absence of its value

From the three points above, it has been shown that homework is only a burden for students and their daily lives. In addition, the more answers requested (spesifically how many characters (letters, numbers, spaces, etc) used to answer a problem) make the burden very heavy. Because of this birden, students hate the subject.

Thus 2 points that I can describe, although there are other points that I do not know that might be completed outside of this article. Therefore, make this 2 (and more outside) reason as the first step to identify how to restore students’ interest in a subject.

References

Kohn, A. (2007). Rethinking Homework. PRINCIPAL, 1-6.
Rickman, L. W., & Hollowell, J. (1981). Some Causes of Student Teacher Failure. Improving College and University Teaching, 176-179.

Billy Yong