For a country that is world renowned for being the top of it all, from technology to government, they do lack within one aspect. That’s education. America is known to be one of the top countries for universities and has had many breakthroughs within many fields of subjects. However, their k-12 system of education doesn’t seem to fit this high standard everyone has put onto the country as it only ranks 29th (based on a 2014 performance record of reading, science and math). One may find that it is astonishing to see such an outstanding country have such low education, but the truth is it’s a recurring topic that people have known about this problem for decades. There are many subjects within this matter that would call for improvement, but
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Before we get into the topic of what makes up these so called “bad teachers”, we must first acknowledge the teacher shortage within schools. According to a study, 8 percent of teachers leave the classroom each year which is double the rate in Finland or Singapore (two of the top countries of education in the world). The Leaning Policy Institute (LPI) had conducted a 2016 survey to find out the reason why such a high percentage of teachers are leaving the field and, “...55 percent cited professional frustrations... 18 percent cited financial reasons, including poor salaries, few benefits, and job insecurity”. Although 8% may seem small, to put into perspective that’s 248,000 teachers. With such a large number of people, we should acknowledge their problems, and rather than putting education fundings towards teacher salaries. The reason being, it leads to my next topic of having unmotivated teachers. As James Comer, an associate dean of Yale University, says, “no significant learning can occur without a significant relationship”. This proves to show how students and teachers must have some sort of positive relationship with each other, because if a teacher does not care about their students, then the students will simply mirror that same attitude. Yet overall, teachers just deserve so much more because they’re teaching the future generations …show more content…
You always hear students complaining about how a lot of the subjects we learn are irrelevant, and although it’s not completely correct they have a point. Schools make it a habit to focus on STEM subjects and tend to cut out the arts. Sir Ken Robinson has made countless of Ted Talks regarding the topic and argue that we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers stating, “We are educating people out of their creativity”. To add on, many students argue that we aren’t learning things we need in life. We have subjects such as history, science, and math- and although it’s important to know the fundamentals of such subjects, we have to remember people are born into different talents. Talents such as the arts, music, and dance. Subjects that aren’t focused on in school, and it’s discouraging. Kids are forced out of their creative mind and are pressured to focus on core subjects such as math and
Before we get into the topic of what makes up these so called “bad teachers”, we must first acknowledge the teacher shortage within schools. According to a study, 8 percent of teachers leave the classroom each year which is double the rate in Finland or Singapore (two of the top countries of education in the world). The Leaning Policy Institute (LPI) had conducted a 2016 survey to find out the reason why such a high percentage of teachers are leaving the field and, “...55 percent cited professional frustrations... 18 percent cited financial reasons, including poor salaries, few benefits, and job insecurity”. Although 8% may seem small, to put into perspective that’s 248,000 teachers. With such a large number of people, we should acknowledge their problems, and rather than putting education fundings towards teacher salaries. The reason being, it leads to my next topic of having unmotivated teachers. As James Comer, an associate dean of Yale University, says, “no significant learning can occur without a significant relationship”. This proves to show how students and teachers must have some sort of positive relationship with each other, because if a teacher does not care about their students, then the students will simply mirror that same attitude. Yet overall, teachers just deserve so much more because they’re teaching the future generations …show more content…
You always hear students complaining about how a lot of the subjects we learn are irrelevant, and although it’s not completely correct they have a point. Schools make it a habit to focus on STEM subjects and tend to cut out the arts. Sir Ken Robinson has made countless of Ted Talks regarding the topic and argue that we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers stating, “We are educating people out of their creativity”. To add on, many students argue that we aren’t learning things we need in life. We have subjects such as history, science, and math- and although it’s important to know the fundamentals of such subjects, we have to remember people are born into different talents. Talents such as the arts, music, and dance. Subjects that aren’t focused on in school, and it’s discouraging. Kids are forced out of their creative mind and are pressured to focus on core subjects such as math and