Experiential education

Gender in Education Who is smarter, boys or girls? Most of society would say that boys are. People view males as the dominant gender. When it comes to gender, there are differences. Deborah Tannen and Jesse J. Prinz express their opinions on gender differences by teaching styles, cultural beliefs, and the problems they pose in education. Gender can be an issue in education. Males and females tend to learn and communicate differently. Tannen, who wrote You Just Don’t Understand, has done several…

In Lisa Delpit’s book “Other People’s Children” there was many conflicts mentioned throughout the chapters. One that really stood out to me was the idea of standards and believing in each child the same no matter what gender, race, or culture. That is something I will do as a teacher and it is also really important in the success of each student. In the introduction scene one there was an interacting between Lisa and a young teacher named Carolyn about a black student in her kindergarten…

After going through the checklist I found many strengths and a few weakens to my classroom and school environment. One of my strengths is providing a safe and welcoming learning environment. I do this two ways first is creating a welcoming physical environment and second is providing procedures and routines to create stability. I create a welcoming physical learning environment by creating a class theme to decorate my room. This year I my theme was Monsters Inc and our class theme is “Learning…

Children are always told that they are the future but when they become a teenager, people don 't think like that anymore especially if you 're a minority( not counting asian people) minority Children all of the time are told most of the time that they cannot become better than what they parents are. Having them just set in that mindset makes them think that some of those things are true, most kids end up proving a lot of people wrong but in the same token some of those kids don 't just because…

My mother always said I became a teacher because I loved to talk, but more than that I loved to share. As always, my mother was right. She believed in me, as well as many of the Tyler ISD teachers who taught me and for this I will always be grateful! It is my desire to believe in my students and encourage them to be the best they can be each day! From my earliest recollections I knew I wanted to be a teacher. My first classroom was in my bedroom closet where I taught Raggedy Ann and Andy, an…

parents are finding themselves having to put their children who have learning disabilities into mainstream education. One of the main reasons for this is that the government have not got enough money to fund schools or to train teachers to look after children who have these learning disabilities. Another reason for the increase in children with learning disabilities in mainstream education is that there are not enough schools to take in these children. Also the ones we have are already full and…

superficial things in life. If there were less use of cell phones not only the rate of graduates may increase but the rate of obesity may decrease as well. Putting yourself first is one of the highest honors so why not but not only yourself but your education before a device that can simply be discarded. Cell phones are not the center of the world just a small…

In the “Public Schools shouldn’t preach. But they should teach kids about religion.” Linda K. Wertheimer focuses on why teaching religion in schools is important and how it will affect society; however, she declines to preach religion in school. Obviously, religion plays a huge role in the development of our society, and one cannot imagine the world without religion, so there is a need to teach and make the students be aware of religion. A broad and effective program of objectively teaching…

The change from high school to college can be dramatic for most young adults. In high school students are excited to move on to a high level of thinking along with friends. High school is also where children go to prepare them for college. High school and college are similar in many aspects. They both create excitement, curiosity, a need environment with more freedom and a new experience in which our youth yearn to explore at least once in their lives. High school is immature fun, a time where…

Article Critique One Main Idea W. James Popham, a former UCLA Professor, argues that standardized achievement tests should not be used to measure the effectiveness of a school or its teachers, even though the tests were and are still often used for such a purpose. Popham believes that while these tests roughly measure a student’s strengths and weakness and can provide useful information to both teachers and parents, they are, however, inadequate evaluating tools to gauge a school’s effectiveness…