Gifted education

I’ve experienced a lot of firsts for my family. I was the first born in America, first to graduate high school, and soon, first to attend university and graduate school. This is something that has given me a lot of pride but also stressed me out with no one to look to for advice. Even though my parents are my support system, they have never been able to help me academically and I was stuck on what to do when I couldn’t figure something out at school. This has been the main cause of my adversity,…

Many students who have dropped out from school and having low expectations for themselves and having underpaid jobs . It is also been known that children from white ethnicity middle and upper class are placed in “gifted and talented” or other programs where they can gain a status and highly improve in different…

thinking about education, what is the first thing that pops into your head? For everyone the answers can be quite different, but one word that remains constant is “why?”. I remember countless times where I asked my mother why I needed to go to school and she always told me “to be successful”. The gravity of those words only then set in once I began to see school as a place of opportunity. Martin Luther King Jr added more so to the depth of school when he stated: “The function of Education is…

jobs because of the huge work load. As a teacher, I will face the challenge of dealing with school violence, having to modify my teaching to fit into many different learning abilities, along with motivating parents to get involved in their child’s education. Although challenging, teaching can also have many rewards such as, getting to work with children, sharing with them a passion for learning and also the added perk of having an abundance of vacation time. Working with children is a deep…

For the purpose of this essay, I will be writing from a high school principal perspective with a school population of 1,200 and a special education population is approximately 17%. In order for our school to transition to an ICT approach, we would have to notify the stakeholders by providing them with some visuals to demonstrate the differences between an ICT classroom and CT/Resource Room Program. Furthermore, historical data about the improvement in schools who have switched to this model will…

required to take physical education courses. Gym should not be included in a students GPA. Physical education should be required but should not be counted towards someone's academic success. A students grade point average focuses on academics of a student everyone is not physically talented and colleges should not care how many push-ups you can do because you go to college to get a education needed for a career. Students are not required to take physical education in college so when a…

Well respected and esteemed 26th president, Abraham Lincoln, once said, “the philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” The experiences and education an individual receives during their youth through schooling is an essential part of how one can prosper and succeed in future society. Such experiences and knowledge sets the key foundation to enable an individual to be more informed and open-minded about numerous aspects and parts of life.…

up in an environment where there was science and math. I have been in a day care and by the time I entered preschool I had basic addition skills. I went to barranca mesa elementary school in twenty ten. In first grade I got into GATE gifted and talented education. In second grade GATE meant that I missed some things so I was expected to catch up by myself and that is what I did. In third I had a teacher that loved science so I really got into my element I even did fourth grade math during math…

Education has always sought to be the one thing that could make everyone equal, the one thing that would allow everyone to strive on a level playing field. Society on the other hand has restricted education in reaching that potential, for it has separated people based upon their circumstances and rarely finds the solution to ensure that everyone has the equal opportunity to learn. From my observations and collection of data I have come to realize that schools may have the appropriate programs,…

Standardized Testing is Debilitating our Education System Standardized testing is the misdirected efforts to improve education in the United States. Though the intent is good, the vehicle by which politicians and administrators have instituted to raise standards is not only flawed in its conception, but a waste of precious time and money resources. No test has the capacity to stand supreme when it comes to accreditation of schools, allocation of federal funds, or determining the effectiveness…