History of education

While completing my walkthroughs for CED 100, I discovered many things about education and teaching that helped me on finalizing my decision to teach Middle School History. After completing all four hours in lower elementary education, upper elementary education, middle school education, and high school education, I had a very good understanding of how classes were conducted and how students from different age groups react to different forms of teaching. My first encounter in a classroom, at…

Everyone else must assimilate or they fail, in both school and in larger society. Education is administered by the powerful and thus it reflects and propagates stratified society. As Lisa Delpit states in The Scilenced Diologue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s Children, “the rules of the culture of power are a reflection of the rules of the culture of those who have power” (Delpit, 1988, 282). That is, education prioritizes…

Experience of Education” In the second chapter of the book, Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us, Mike Rose queries that we can learn from surroundings and we can make our lives spontaneously, so why we have to pay more attention to experience of education in the schoolhouse. His main point is the experience of education determines the way students perceive schooling, how to integrate into our lives and how to define ourselves. He also utilizes his past experience of education to…

Paulo Freire was a Brazilian educationalist that has left an essential significance on the concept of thought, reflection and education. His works were and still are a monumental reason for change in communities of people that were restricted within their knowledge. Due to such, Freire is recognized to be one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century on education itself. In his works, it is evident that dialogue and the concern for the oppressed societies are two divisions in which…

its citizens. Education sets the foundation for success, and should be readily available for all citizens. The pressing issues that hinder students from receiving a quality education must be addressed. Education has to be a priority for all stakeholders – superintendents, lawmakers, educators, community leaders, businesses, parents and students, and there has to be a sense of common purpose in education to ensure all students’ educational needs are being met. In order for education to truly meet…

The education system has many flaws which prevent students from reaching their full potential when learning. Mark Edmundson and Paulo Freire form their own theories for why the system is flawed and how to fix it. Edmundson believes it is flawed because the education system is forced to adapt to the consumer culture, to make students want to learn more and to persuade the students into favoring their professors. Freire believes it is flawed because of the lack of communication between the teacher…

The article, “Essential Ethical Considerations in Education” by Robert Smith, identifies numerous responsibilities educators in all professions should observe when instructing students, regardless of the classroom composition or disposition. It appears from the information provided in the scenario that Mr. Peabody has chosen to ignore these common considerations or has allowed community pressure to influence his philosophy concerning the curriculum. First, educators should have an ethical…

Exploring history in the elementary classroom can be enjoyable, exciting, and eye opening when the teacher chooses the best methods to engage his/her students. Teachers who expose his/her students to history in a way that engages them in creative learning activities, makes history come alive in the classroom. When history comes alive in the classroom, students are inspired and excited about learning the events of the past. This inspiration and excitement leads to better understanding and…

information about teacher interest first by developing a simple survey through Survey Monkey and distributing it via e-mail to primary through secondary education Clark County School District teachers who agreed to receive the survey. The purpose of the survey was to collect information on teacher demographics, teaching styles, professional development history and professional development…

Special education teachers work with children who have moderate to severe disabilities. To become a special education teacher they not only have to go threw the college courses they need to get their credential but also the many trainings that come after that once they’ve been accepted to teach a special education class. Because the special education teachers have a wide range of students that may either have one or more of the…