Continuing education unit

“We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.” Cesar Chavez America is often described as a melting pot. For example, you can find Americans enjoying Mexican or Italian food. What is considered a family today is radically different than it was fifty years ago. Families are becoming more diverse with interracial marriages becoming commonplace. One of the benefits of immigration is the…

Transitions are changes which may by intentional or inevitable and they create and disconnect relationships, due to new perspectives. Transitions are explored within the drama Educating Rita by Willy Russell and the collage picture book “Windows” by Jennie Baker. The drama explores transitions through the relationship between Rita, a working class women and Frank a university professor, as Rita strives to break free of the class boundaries that restrict her and become educated, allowing her to…

The education teacher, Christine, tried to provide the appropriate education, along with high expectations for learning, but that was not always effective due to no support. She advocated for Katy and her family, but was unsuccessful in that she could not meet the needs of all the children, when two had special needs. Katy’s parents were immense advocates in making sure her needs were met. Katy’s parents knew that she would fit into an inclusive classroom, with an aide; they continued to…

Moral Distress Ganske (2010) examined moral distress in nursing education through a systematic review of the literature. Moral distress is, “the stress that occurs when one knows the right thing to do, but institutional constraints make it nearly impossible to pursue the right course of action” (Ganske, 2010, p. 2). The author determined that moral distress is associated with student incivility, cheating, bullying, low academic admission standards, and cultural issues. Ganske (2010) suggests…

We worry about your child too Parents in general, no matter the age of their child will always worry about their well-being during many aspects of their life, Education is no exception. A constant concern lingers inside as to whether or not their child is receiving adequate instruction and assistance from the teacher. Furthermore, parents desire to see their child flourish in knowledge, therefore, certain doubts as to the quality of instruction exists. In that aspect, teachers also concern…

asked my father why my grandfather never send any of them to school, my father will tell me that back then, Gambia did not have western education system like it is today. He said Gambia was still under colonial rule and the only western school system in the country was centered in the capital city and not in the villages. Secondly, back in those days western education was not seen as a requirement to hold a chieftaincy position or to be a district leader of once territory. There was no…

So many people have different interpretations of mathematics, in elementary school we learn that if you have 5 apples and your neighbor takes 3 away you are only left with 2. In middle school we were shown that there are 360 degrees in a circle and a numerous variety of rules and theorems that seemed only relevant for that section. We learned about sine, cosine, and tangent, which were chiseled in our brain. In high school we were introduced to things I didn’t know existed, such as derivatives,…

Reading Instruction has stimulated many discussions among educators in the past few years. There has been an increase in the use of reading in multiple content areas in the past few years. Educators around the country have changed and interweaved the new and the old ways of teaching and understanding the reading process. Many aspects have changed this instruction such as the understanding of content area literacy, choosing the appropriate texts, knowledge transformation, and learner development.…

The close study of the Melbourne Declaration (2008) enables an insight into the historical changes to educations, the objectives of policies and the limitations in its enactments. Thus, policies allow for positive ideologies of teaching, yet its effectiveness can be…

Holistic education cannot be seen as separate from the concepts preceding in this report, but instead as a summary. Holistic education seeks to define a person’s passion for life and learning through a focus on community, the natural world, and humanitarian values. Jackson and Davis (2000) contended that the middle school…