Challenges In Arizona Education System

Our group has chosen 21st century challenges within the Arizona education system. As Arizonans there are many aspects of our great state to love. One area that is a great concern, however, is the performance of our education system. Within this paper, the goal is to explore experiences in the classroom that mold a conceptual understanding of the challenges that face education and then draw upon various articles and authors that elaborate on those issues. From that, the focus will be on key areas of transformative education to be discussed and weighed as to how they can be incorporated into mainstream education. Key issues in debate of Arizona education comes down to funding, shortages of teachers, education standards, infrastructure, poverty …show more content…
Throughout your educational career everyone has meet a student that goes above and beyond to get good grades and learn. Also many students know the student that had no interest in education at all and either dropped out or slide by graduation requirements. The other idea is the teachers standards, not all teachers are the same. Some teacher can be very challenging and make the class possible to succeed in you want to work hard. And others are either giving out grades to people that do not deserve the grade. Also their are teachers that make the class very tough to succeed in by being very unorganized and then testing over material that has not been thoroughly discussed. The other discussed topic on to improve education is to improve funding. I agree teachers should be paid more for the work they do. And also many schools infrastructure needs to be improved. When i was in high school sports and visited many different high schools. The older high schools were falling apart and some even seemed like they care to provide the right accommodations to learn …show more content…
Teachers should be paid more than they are now to make the job more desireable. People seem to not like to say it but money is the largest way to persuade people, once students graduate high school they think about careers to follow and many look at the average salary. The average salary for a teacher in the public school system is 44,000. So they expect student go through college which cost on average 24,000 a year. So many students go to school to pursue higher paying careers, this is why their is a shortage in educational instructors. If teachers got paid more this would make the job more desired and may bring a higher standard to education. The blame is not all on the teachers, a majority of education on the student. Many students do not see the point of education at first, many students see education in a negative aspect and don't see the potential in learning. The best way to improve education in the state is to reach the students. Students need to not be treated like a number and need to have a closer relationship with their instructor. The instructor should also always been encouraging the students and never give up or be disrespectful to students. The class room sizes need to be reduced. When i was in highschool i remember on the first day of the year some class rooms were to packed that they didn't have enough desks for the students until the next week.