¶ … Student Learning External Distractions

Mental intimidation

Name-calling

Insults

Physical violence/injury

Pushing/shoving/fights

Groups cornering single victim

Social media

Gang/Criminal Activity 6

Violence/crime near school

Troubled Family

Mental health concerns

While being one of the most demanding professions, teaching is also particularly difficult in school settings where there is a performance problem for a large proportion of the student body. Job stresses are also high as school authorities strive to raise standards and hold teachers accountable (Adelman & Taylor, 2002).

However research has shown that poor teaching standards is not the only reasons that can lead to poor performance. There are many other factors that act as barriers to the effective learning efforts by students and the teaching efforts by teachers. The highest possible level is what every teacher, counselor and administrator wants to achieve. But despite the best efforts of both teachers and students, it does not always become possible to achieve the potential. There are factors that are called barriers to effective education that affect the performance of students in schools (Fingar & Jolls, 2013).

There are two major concepts to the notion of barriers to learning. These are external and internal factors. Research has found that many students go to school under conditions and situations that are not helpful for promotion of healthy development and are often even antithetical to the process. Learning and performing also often becomes difficult when some students have inherent intrinsic conditions. Therefore a section of the students at almost every level come to school effectively unready to meet the demands of the school and learning settings.

Problems such as youth delinquency, violence, substance abuse, teen pregnancy and school dropout have been identified as the common risk factors that that research has found to impede effective learning in students (Adelman & Taylor, 2002). Other problems such as mental health concerns that include school adjustment problems, physical and sexual abuse, relationship difficulties, severe emotional disturbance and neglect are also have been found to be responsible for prevention of effective learning for students.

While these factors and reasons should not be considered a=s justified reasons for ineffective performance for students, it is a fact that the above mentioned...

Some of the factors are not only impediments about are also antithetical to the process of effective learning. The external barriers to effective education for students and children are the ones that have the biggest impact over the learning abilities of students.
Mental intimidation

Name-calling

Mental intimidation is also part of the bullying actions that students engage in and inflict upon other students. Such bullying can be in the form of verbal abuse to other students. Name calling is one of the most common forms of verbal bullying in schools and education settings. The act by students intended…