Progressive education

was intelligent but they lacked personal opinion and believed only in facts and beliefs. Their idea of an ideal woman was to earn the hand of a Yale or Harvard man and be lucky enough to cherish the chance in her life and be a dutiful wife. And education for them was only a way of maintaining and living up to the husband’s idea…

Education and administration of: Intelligence psychometric test: Raven Progressive Matrices (Couleur – Standar), Wisc-III, Du Paul Questionnaire for ADHD. Case history taking. Parent counselling for cases of children with learning disabilities. 3) (300 hours) 1st Special Educational Needs…

Criticisms of schools and districts across the nation are endless. As an educator who advocates for progressive schools and less traditional teaching strategies, having the ability to dictate details of my own utopian school district seemed like a fun, easy challenge—until I started trying to type. Running a whole school district entails a vast number of responsibilities and details to consider. This is one of the reasons I have zero interest in pursuing an administrative role. However, like the…

Queer and the Spiritual Experience Regarding religiosity and spiritual experience, these two elements can indeed bring a person inside the LGBTQIA community into a better understanding of themselves and take the individual into a greater state of awareness and being “one” with society and the world; so stating that a spiritual experience can give any person greater awareness, or truth, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. In Satyal’s Blue Boy, we see how the protagonist Kiran…

centuries, education was a controversial topic among the Black community, which created a massive split between Black activists, like Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. The split between Washington and Du Bois was due to their different ideas on education that Blacks should follow in order to raise their social mobility. The debate about Black education tends to focus on Washington and Du Bois, but there were many different scholarly opinions held by men and women. The issue of education…

ensure that their student receive the best quality in education with the knowledge they have at their disposal. Therefore because it is the students that the schools are centered around, I align my educational philosophy with progressivism. Progressivism is a type of teaching style in which the primary focus is on the student. According Cohen the author of the article Philosophical Perspectives in Education, “Progressives believe that education should focus on the whole child, rather that…

commercial and non- commercial films used in the classroom. Commercial film was film that was mass produced for use in the classroom whereas noncommercial film are films that were not mass produced and created for the classroom. Film was considered a progressive technology and teachers who used it were considered innovative. Although, film was introduced in 1910’s- 1930’s was not often used because of its cost and teacher’s inability to use technology. Furthermore, teachers found that using…

negative impacts they could impose, especially on education and healthcare. Education and healthcare are two important components in shaping our society. They both provide countless economic economic benefits. These economic benefits as this report will show, outweigh the costs that governments may incur now. Therefore, I believe that in order for us to enjoy their economical benefits, we should ensure that they are completely funded. Both education and healthcare are being affected today due to…

EPPS #2 Terry: Terry is one of my students with a ton of real potential, but he lacks real motivation. Understanding how social class diversity affect students I know what Terry goes through is extremely hard on him and his education. Terry and his mom are homeless; they go from family member to family members. He believes that there is no real reason for him to try nor to open up to anyone. Terry believes that he will gone in a few weeks. So I take upon myself to ask terry to stay after school…

Social Networking and Collaboration The social networking progressive technology tools gives hands on experience for students and teachers in the collaborative classroom. Social networking has proven potential to enhance both the effectiveness and efficiency of a meaningful collaborative learning experience in the class curriculum. Thus, social networking is the “information age” in society, which are teaching and learning investments in the educational success of students (Mama & Hennessy,…