1. Narration sickness is when the teacher talks about reality as if it is irrelevant. Freire also explains that it is about teachers that “fill” their students with information of his/hers own narration, which is information detached from reality.
2. Narration sickness mimics No Child Left Behind because the teacher teaches and the students learn. Students learn through memorization but most of the time do not grasp the root of the concept. They are filled with information about the test but that information is detached from reality.
3. My junior year of high school I took Advanced Biology. My teachers name was Mrs. Olsen and absolutely adored her. She was so fun and crazy but when it came to teaches us new things she got the job done. I learned a lot in the class and took a lot of that information with me even after the class was over. Most of the time students forget a lot of information that they learn in some class. Mrs. Olsen did use a few of the banking concepts listed in the book.
She taught her students and they learned. A lot of biology was memorization. When we dissected a cat we had to memorize all the bones, muscles, and organ systems. It took a lot of time but the most efficient way to grasp the concept of the dissection was through her teaching us and us absorbing what she said and memorizing it. I do not think that this was a disadvantage at all because anatomy is something that has to be memorized and what better way to learn it than by having our teacher teach it and us learn about it.
4. A teacher that stands out in my mind is my Advanced Biology teacher, Mrs. Olsen. I talked about her in the previous paragraphs. She did use the banking concepts while we were in our anatomy section, but she did not use them in every section. She found a perfect balance in when to use the banking concepts and when not to. When it came to anatomy the banking concepts came into play and helped the students learn something that most of us will never forget through the memorization process. When it came to running tests on chickens and trying to find out when drug they had been injected with we learned through trial and error. This was effective because we learn to think on our own instead of learning what the teacher teaches.
Mrs. Olsen was so enthusiastic in class and really loved her job. It made the class so much more enjoyable. It seemed as if she knew everything about everything and when her students would ask her a question she always seemed to have the answer and if she did not she would go and find if for them. She always had the best interest of her students in mind and wanted them to learn not only through her but through each other as well. She took us on a few field trips, one to the cadaver lab at SDSU. She stands out in my mind because she knew when she should be giving us information and when she would wait to see if we could figure things out on our own.
5. The Visigoths would embrace the concept of liberated education because they are taught to be savages and they learn their ways through their ancestors. I think that my Anatomy class practices the banking concept because we have to memorize different thing and the instructor tells us what we need to know and he explains it to us and then we just go over what he tells us. I think my Chemistry class would benefit more from the teacher teaching us the material rather than us having to go and try to find the information because I feel like a lot of the information that we need to know or that we are expected to know does not always get found. Then when it comes to the quizzes we sometimes feel lost. The exams also are hard to navigate because we may not have found all the information needed.
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