make fun of my black features. My mother raised me to always be confident and never let anyone try and put me down. I had it installed in my brain that MY black was BEAUTIFUL! But after a while of hearing negative things about myself and having my education being put aside due to a language barrier, I couldn’t take it anymore. I began to become depressed and my mother, who is practically my twin, noticed. In hopes of improving my mental health I started homeschooling. Being…
high-stakes testing (pp. 28).” These consequences include but are not limited to a narrowing of the curriculum, the failure to retain students so their knowledge can be enhanced, or an increased number of students encouraged to be placed in special education. When the stakes are held to such a high level and are attached to a person’s reputation or school funding, teachers can often resort to “teaching to the test” which is an ineffective teaching practice and may not be seen as relevant to…
Letter of Interest – Sandra Cole, MBA, CHC, CPC Mid Atlantic -Regional Health Equity Council Att: Mid-Atlantic RHEC Members I would like to express my interest in becoming a member of the Mid-Atlantic RHEC. As a healthcare compliance professional, my background and experience in working with providers and the community has provided me with invaluable insight on how important it is to develop clear communication tools between provider’s and the community to ensure better patient outcomes. My…
The United States is known as a country of immigrants. For centuries, people have immigrated to the U.S. from all over the world. With this knowledge, I was shocked when I came to America and witnessed how immigrants and people different from main-stream middle class families are treated. I especially became aware that I was different and that I might be treated differently. While I know that ethnocentrism is not only found in the United States, I did not expect some of the harsh treatments that…
Education, in the 21st century, refers to certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem solving that advocates believe schools need to teach to help students thrive in today’s world. (Education Week, 2010). Students are encouraged to think critically and creatively, nevertheless, there are schools throughout the state of Kentucky that exclude the arts from their core curriculum which eliminates a creative outlet for students. Arts integration…
Background of the Problem Despite the past successes of the United States Army, adaptation of the way the Army trains is a necessity and is, therefore, ever evolving. Until the turn of the 21st century, the U.S. Army approached training and leader development as two separate programs. In 2002, the US. Army determined that combining its training program and leadership development program into one was more effective for producing competent and confident leaders. It is not known how…
educators, an absence of individual skill with technology offers the extra challenge. To incorporate technology-based actions and plans into their curriculum, those teachers first must find the time to learn to use the tools and understand the vocabulary necessary for participation in those projects…
been taught in terms of cultural facts, vocabulary acquisition, grammar skills, and conjugation charts, etc. By doing so, students may absolutely better master the important parts of a video and spend their time getting a chance to use high tech tools such as iPods, iPads and even smartphones for short or extended video clips that help them become more confortable and more confident when asked to improve their speaking skills using a World Language such as French, Spanish, etc. Furthermore,…
Quality, free public education is something that Americans truly value because it prepares young people with the training, knowledge, and skills needed to succeed in future careers, and also have side effects on the social lives of students that better economic and life development. Local school districts (pg. 527), which are the local administration for schools within a geographical area, traditionally have had control of public education and run 90% of all public schools. Normally,…
range of modes of communication including storytelling, music, visual Arts, drama and media, as well as writing, reading, viewing and writing (Australian Government Department of Education Employment and Work Relations [DEEWR], 2009, p.46). Students with in the Australian Curriculum become literate by developing skills, knowledge and dispositions to understand and utilize language confidently for communicating, learning in the school and participating effectively in the society beyond the school…