Education is important because it teaches students the essentials that they will need for their careers in the future, so without a proper education, students will be destined to fail. Schools need change because students don’t have any motivation to do well in school, and they need to be pushed to do their best. Firstly, students need new assessment criteria so they’re graded not for their memorization skills, but for how well they work and get things done. Additionally, Schools need to use motivational strategies to offer specific rewards for academic achievement. Finally, to improve the science of learning, schools need to offer smaller classes with smaller student-teacher ratios. If these changes aren’t placed in schools anytime soon, students
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Project-based learning gives students the opportunity to acquire skills that they will use as an adult. Many people think that as long as we get rid of standardized testing, the curriculum will improve. In fact, Greg Jouriles (an author from education week) says, “We have begun to grade each other’s students on common tasks. We could publish the results of these performance tasks, and the public would have a good idea of what we’re good at and what we’re not… That’s better information than we’ve ever received from standardized testing.” This demonstrates that we learn nothing about students from standardized testing, and we need to find a way to assess students based on how well they work and get things done. This idea is reflected perfectly in project-based learning. In fact, an author for Edutopia has stated, “The old school model of passively learning facts and reciting them out of context is no longer sufficient to prepare students to survive in today’s world… By bringing real-life context and technology to the curriculum through a PBL approach, students are encouraged to become independent workers, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners.” This communicates that we need a new way to teach students, and project-based learning is the way to go. It gives students different abilities that they will need in the future when they acquire a career. In …show more content…
Students need a learning environment with fewer people. It gives fewer distractions and more individual focus from teachers. One parent points out that the Department of Education has proven smaller class size to be effective when he says, “The Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the United States Department of Education has concluded that class size reduction is one of the only four, evidence-based reforms that have been proven to increase student achievement through rigorous, randomized experiments. This indicates exactly how helpful smaller class sizes would be. It shows that professionals have stated that this change results in only benefits. Research has been done to prove the benefits of smaller class size. There have been projects to study the benefits, and one author points that out when she says, “The STAR (Student-Teacher Achievement Ratio) project is a well-known study of a class size reduction program in Tennessee… The project found that smaller classes resulted in substantial increases in academic performance of children in primary grades, particularly for poor and minority children.” This shows that based on scientific research, class size reduction results in large increases in academic performance. In the end, smaller class sizes show only benefits to student’s academic performance, and while it may be hard for schools to do
Project-based learning gives students the opportunity to acquire skills that they will use as an adult. Many people think that as long as we get rid of standardized testing, the curriculum will improve. In fact, Greg Jouriles (an author from education week) says, “We have begun to grade each other’s students on common tasks. We could publish the results of these performance tasks, and the public would have a good idea of what we’re good at and what we’re not… That’s better information than we’ve ever received from standardized testing.” This demonstrates that we learn nothing about students from standardized testing, and we need to find a way to assess students based on how well they work and get things done. This idea is reflected perfectly in project-based learning. In fact, an author for Edutopia has stated, “The old school model of passively learning facts and reciting them out of context is no longer sufficient to prepare students to survive in today’s world… By bringing real-life context and technology to the curriculum through a PBL approach, students are encouraged to become independent workers, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners.” This communicates that we need a new way to teach students, and project-based learning is the way to go. It gives students different abilities that they will need in the future when they acquire a career. In …show more content…
Students need a learning environment with fewer people. It gives fewer distractions and more individual focus from teachers. One parent points out that the Department of Education has proven smaller class size to be effective when he says, “The Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the United States Department of Education has concluded that class size reduction is one of the only four, evidence-based reforms that have been proven to increase student achievement through rigorous, randomized experiments. This indicates exactly how helpful smaller class sizes would be. It shows that professionals have stated that this change results in only benefits. Research has been done to prove the benefits of smaller class size. There have been projects to study the benefits, and one author points that out when she says, “The STAR (Student-Teacher Achievement Ratio) project is a well-known study of a class size reduction program in Tennessee… The project found that smaller classes resulted in substantial increases in academic performance of children in primary grades, particularly for poor and minority children.” This shows that based on scientific research, class size reduction results in large increases in academic performance. In the end, smaller class sizes show only benefits to student’s academic performance, and while it may be hard for schools to do