Educational stages

Does preschool education have a long-term effect on children? This is a question that does not have just one single answer. In today’s society, whether or not your child receives a preschool education is solely a decision the parents have to make, whereas when I was younger, not every child was able to go to preschool. In today’s society, children do not have to partake in a test to get into a preschool program like the children that grew up in the previous decades. Although some people feel as…

Family, School, and Environment: How Do They Affect the Student? For this ethnographical project, I observed in a Pre-K classroom at a public, urban elementary school in Birmingham Alabama. I observed in this classroom for a total of twenty-five hours during the months of November and December. During my time, I participated in regular classroom activities, attended lunch and physical education class with the students, and interviewed both the lead teacher and the teaching assistant. The…

When we are growing up we change what we want our professions to be, as an adult, several times. At least, that’s how it is for most people. Even after we are grown up and in college, there is still a possibility that we can find a new calling. It’s a normal thing. No one is born knowing what they want are going to do as an adult. Growing up I went through five different choices of what I wanted to be. First was a lawyer, then a veterinarian, then a radio host, then a music producer, then my…

I find it funny that 12 years ago I would be inside my room with a bunch of papers, a ruler, and my grandma 's glasses on playing teacher with my friends. In that moment I would have never thought that being a teacher would be really what I would want to be when I grew up. I always found myself interested in teaching, I just never knew what grade or if I was really sure if that is what I wanted to do. I guess what helped me clear that up was the beginning of my senior year. It was a week before…

“Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition”(Vest). The college tuition is a big problem because some students can not afford college. The college tuition is increasing slowly, but their are people who are supporting for more financial help from the Federal government, yet people claim to…

wife and two children in Gig Harbor Washington. Dan is currently a commercial roofer and waterproofer for Wayne’s roofing. In his younger years he worked in many restaurants, the papermill, had a short radio job, and was a salesman for in home educational programs. When Daniel has free time he either spends it with his family, watching sports, cooking, gardening, or coaching sports. He is a very loving, encouraging, and caring person. Daniel stated that he had graduated high school from Decator…

Attendance, and the need to improve it, has become a pressing issue within the Point Pleasant Borough School District. When children are absent from school very often or for extended periods, they miss opportunities to enhance their education. In elementary school, when children are absent from school for extended periods, the fault lies not with the child, but with the parent. Children have a right to receive an education and when they are chronically absent from school that right is…

Learning is a very important aspect of our lives. From the moment we enter this world, until we die, we are always learning. Besides our parents, the educational component of our learning is left up to the school systems. As a matter of fact, most people go to school for at least 13 years, excluding post-secondary education which means we learn a lot of different information within those years. In class I thought that it was interesting that white women during the post-revolutionary time was…

I found the clinical experience to be very informative and a wonderful experience learning and observing the routines of a public school. After the four walk throughs at the Model Laboratory School, it became very evident that each classroom had their own look and each teacher had their own teaching methods depending on the subject or grade level. The clinicals are extremely important in the process of becoming a teacher as it showed the interaction between students and teachers, which cannot be…

A sit-down interview, in the interviewee’s classroom, on April 22, 2016, resulted in responses from Rachel Koplin, a female Elementary Education teacher at Deerfield Elementary School, in Deerfield, Wisconsin. The purpose of the interview was to gain information and insight for an individual considering entering the field of Elementary Education including areas such as expectations, requirements, frustrations, and advice. The interview contained ten initial questions, with four additional…