practitioner quickly, as I am able to embed new skills immediately. In the coming years I aim to take on leadership responsibilities within a school. I believe that this course will equip me with a body of knowledge of management in education and leadership within schools, this will help me become an informed, capable and effective classroom practitioner and school leader. As part of my PGCE I was required to conduct some small scale class based action research, I would be very interested to…
(Hilliard). Will you become a part of the solution for standardized testing for the people? Standardized testing is a good idea to test the students on how much they have retained from the class and the teacher. Standardized testing helps compare school districts and how teachers teach their students, but it devalues the goals of teachers who may have different. What the lessons and tests say is important may not be important for the teacher or what the state thinks is important. As a student,…
It was the last time I walked out of the old, nostalgic building that I had called my school for most of my life; each step took me farther from the familiar, constant life I once had. I clearly recall that emotional day that caused several of my classmates along with myself great trouble; it was likely one the most momentous moments of my life. The other students had lightheartedly poured out of the school building to jump start their summer, their unavoidable return in the following months…
Education. Preschool teachers teach children many basic skills that they will need to know for when they begin kindergarten. They teach the children colors, shapes, numbers, and letters. Not only do teachers work at school with the students, but they also have to work out of school preparing lesson plans. These lesson plans have to cover different areas of child development, such as language, motor, and social skills. Teachers have to make sure…
In a 1979 court case, Larry P. v. Riles, which argued this issue, the court agreed that schools were indeed discriminatory, and they ruled each state to construct a plan to abolish the unequal enrollment of African American children in special education programs (Russo & Talbert-Johnson, 1997, p. 139). With the responsibility to address this issue in the states hands, the pressure ultimately is placed on school staff, psychologists, and test makers to ensure that tests are fair for all, biases…
Students would be choosing schools based not only on who would cover the cost of their tuition, but also who would pay them the most on top of that. 2. No longer would receiving the best education be a factor in athletes choosing a school. 3. They would be attending school based on money rather than their future and education. C. Smaller schools would have no chance at recruiting big time athletes. 1. All of the big time athletes would choose the bigger schools that can afford to pay…
People are taught how to read at a young age. They progress through school learning various techniques to help read the material more efficiently. One way is learning to how critique their assigned readings, and helps the young adults develop a better understanding of the text. A student assists their reading skills this way, because they are now able to apply different applications to the text. This opens their minds to understand different ways to interpret the reading rather than just form an…
Another part of Gandy’s statement shows that she believes that standardized testing portrays the “underlying racial inequity in our schools”, by showing school average academic performance and the differences between schools with higher numbers of low-income students, students of color, and white students or “good schools”. Standardized tests, Gandy thinks, show when a school is falling behind national standards due to the demographics of the student income averages and races. Gandy believes…
seen and experienced the roles of students, educators, and schools. I have been exposed to other side of classroom; being the teacher. I want to continue my pursuit of elementary education because of my service learning experiences. With support, care, good vibes, and a safe place to go each day, every person has the opportunity to grow and blossom into who they desire to be. As an educator, I want to help students feel safe, show why school matters everyday by using real world examples, and…
from their peers. Beginning in the 1960’s, schools started integrating sexual education into the public school system; however, they only taught the bare minimum, which barely scratched the surface of this important subject. Because sexual education has developed a lot over time, these old techniques are not reaching the standards that are expected. There have been many organized groups that oppose this and claim that it should not be taught in schools; however sexual…