Primary education

We helped teach pupils in a primary school, while learning about the way they lived and seeing the different ways in which their life and culture was different to ours. Working with the pupils allowed me to develop my communication skills as they didn’t understand some of the things we were teaching so I had to use visual communication to explain. The trip required us to have respect for and gain the respect of the primary students, the teachers, and the many other people we…

adopted CGS Section 10-22(c) that requires: …each local and regional board of education shall submit to the commissioner of education a strategic school profile report for each school under its jurisdiction and for the school district as a whole. Each profile report will contain information on measures of student needs, school resources, and student and school performance. According to the Connecticut State Department of Education, the purpose of these reports is to, “…serve as an accountability…

To the Members of the Boston Public Schools Board of Education: “School districts across the country have been slowly limiting recess and children’s free time at schools with many schools taking the drastic step of eliminating recess altogether” (Keeler 14). Many schools believed that smarter students could be cultivated with less free time and more work time (Keeler 14). However, children in America are suffering from a health crisis from the lack of physical activity and free time in schools,…

For those of you who went to st Mary’s you will understand the fear that Sister Julian brought to even the most daring of us all with her special grass and special cleaning car detentions. St Mary’s was to be the second of the four primary schools I went to, moving another house but staying at the same school. Researchers say that by moving house, but being able to keep some parts of daily routine the same can lessen the effects on a child at this time, and I would agree. I would also…

In September of 1969, I was five years old, and I started to attend kindergarten. This was the first school year for the newly organized Mid-Valley School District. The new proper name of our school was the Olyphant Elementary School, but we commonly referred to it as the Mid-Valley Elementary School in Olyphant. My classroom was in the part of the building that used to be the Olyphant Central School; the part that was dedicated in 1910. This was the same school building in which my…

more convenient study approach since e-learning was introduced to school. Primary schools in some developed countries such as Britain and America tend to teach their students with electronic devices instead of printed books. However, I personally argue this trend is not suitable for pupils. In this essay, I will first list some drawbacks of eBooks and then give some reasons why printed books should be still dominated in primary school. First of all, eBooks hazard people’s eyesight and have some…

I have always been known by my family and in school as an avid reader. Early on, my mom, a former elementary school teacher herself, fostered in me a burning desire for reading and a love to get lost in a book. In grade school, I was known to finish my math and other more “boring” work as quickly as possible so that I could get back to whichever story I was reading at the time. As I got older, reading for pleasure took a backseat to homework, a social life, and other hobbies. I believe I…

Overview of the Improvement Plan for the Patriot Elementary School: After teaching 14 years in elementary education, and serving on the District Educational Advisory Committee, School Improvement Panel, Local Professional Development Committee, and chair of the School Wide Committee, I am thrilled with my recent appointment as the principal of the Patriot Elementary School. Having taught grades 1-5 during my career, and working collaboratively with administration on data analysis over the years,…

sharecropped in Mississippi. When she was 4 years old, her parents, Abon and Lucille Bridges, moved to New Orleans, hoping for a better life in a bigger city.The fact that Ruby Bridges was born the same year that the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision desegregated the…

Improving School Lunches In Nutritional Quality Assessment of Elementary School Lunches of South Korea and the United States, the authors, Jeon Min-Sun, Young Hoon Kim, and Hak-Seon Kim are professors at universities from Texas and South Korea. They have PhDs and spend much of their time teaching students that are interested in the field of food services. In this article, the authors are mostly successful in persuading those who are within the foodservice chains, that nutritional school lunches…