Landmark Education

I remember few things from when I was in elementary school however, one thing that has stayed in my memory is the sudden disappearance of my Spanish class. The class didn’t stop completely but it did become less frequent. Along with Spanish class, my art and gym classes were also becoming less frequent. Later I would find that these were the effects of budget cuts. I’m not sure if these cuts were made more apparent to me because of my mother’s position in my school or if I had noticed them by…

this theory, he is speaking factors that lead to positive and negative motivation. He characterizes physical working conditions, and relations of others (among others) as hygiene factors (Robbins and Judge, 2000, 66). This can be applied to our education system right now as the school to prison pipeline within minority cultures is so…

Scaffolding The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) illustrates what the learner can perform with and without the teacher’s help. The teaching framework that aids the learner’s transition from conceptual application with help to application without help is scaffolding (Vygotsky, 1978). Likewise, Basu, Sengupta, and Biswas (2014) describe inquiry learning as an agent of scaffolding. As the level of subject difficulty rises, it becomes more important for teachers to identify the collective…

As an educator today, there is information about my students that I need to know to be an effective teacher. It is important to me that I get to know the background and culture of my students. This information is going to help me prepare and better understand my students. Our classrooms today are very diverse with students of different nationalities, religions, ethnicity, and socio-economic backgrounds. To be at my best, I need as much information I can get from my students. Being able to…

Harris, once said, “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows”. The post-modern view on education emphasizes promoting creativity, encouraging self-motivation and self-supervision, and empowerment of minority students, as opposed to the modernist view that perceives education as a man-power nurturing tool (Aronowitz, 1991). I think mass communication education should be aimed at promoting the students’ critical thinking skills, to make students…

Keys to College New beginnings, new people, and endless opportunities. Starting college is a whole new chapter to life that leads to the next chapter. A chance to push students to be what they have always answered to the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Some students could know what they want to study and others may be unsure of what they want to study. That is the great thing about college because this is the time in a young adult 's life to have the chance to find…

For many, the concept of athletics and education seem to be a flawless pairing, a coupling that has seemed to simply be the way things were for as long as anyone can remember. In today’s society, it is so relevant, that certain colleges are immediately recognized because of their outstanding achievements in either athletics or academics, much like the way Harvard is known to be a tough, academically driven law school, whereas Pennsylvania State University is vastly well known for its football…

On September 16th, 2015 I went to Chippewa Elementary School in Holtsville, New York. I made an observation at the beginning of the day in Mrs. Carey’s Kindergarten class. The purpose of this observation is to observe and evaluate the human matters of sentiments, behaviors, standards and relationships between teachers and students within the classroom. When I first walk into the classroom it felt dreary due to the whole classroom having dark stained wood paneling on all walls, dark wooden…

She exemplifies the Alabama Quality Teaching Standards and is a true leader who thinks outside the box, passionately modeling what is means to be a professional educator. Now that Alabama education reform is moving away from No child Left Behind mandates, other teachers like Rose should be more willing to analyze, adapt, and revise, and explore new ways for genuine intellectual growth, moral commitment, and democratic citizenship. (Noddings…

Who doesn’t have a smartphone these days? In today’s modern life, smartphones are undoubtedly used for many aspects in an individual’s daily routine. Such as going on the internet to look up information from the latest weather report, to social media, and simply using the map of the smart phone to find a certain destination. Smartphones are no longer just used for calling or texting. The phones open a wide spread of availability where teachers in schools can ask their students to use their…