Reading The Poor Scholar's Soliloquy By Stephen M. Corey was an interesting piece. It was about a boy who had trouble in school with all subjects, but when he is interested in something, like his uncle's trucks, he can compute mileage, explain directions when they are driving somewhere, write letters to farmers making very few mistakes, etc. He goes on and describes different things that he cannot do in school, like find the width of a highway if a pole falls across it and has certain lengths on each side of the highway, he cannot name the presidents, he cannot write very well (the piece that we read), etc.
Throughout this piece he talks about each subject that he struggles with, but then gets off topic and describes something he is interested in. The strange thing is that the part he describes what he is interested in, he also relates it to the subject that he is talking about. It shows that he does understand parts of the subjects from school, but if he is not interested in it then he is simply confused. He is not mentally slow or deficient, but simply bored.
This relates to teachers today because no matter what happens in your classroom, you will always have someone who struggles with learning the material. The best thing that you can do for your student is to try to relate it to something that the student is interested in.
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