School examinations

motivates students to excel.” Since some teachers do not know exactly what to teach their student, they all receive different levels of education, which is unfair to the students. If we use standardized tests, there will be specific curriculums that schools must offer and they will be much more motivated to teach it…

know this is where you want to be. 3 To be an Elementary School Teacher there a responsibilities that come with the job. Just like any other job you may want.…

One out of every five students drops out of high school throughout the nation. There was a time where this nation had some of the most intelligent students worldwide but over the years there has been a gradual decrease in actual knowledge. What is the cause of this somewhat absurd statistic and who is to blame? Have the teachers relied too heavily on the banking-system and oppressed the creative and critical thinking aspect of schooling, or are students at fault for their economic status and not…

into classroom instruction for both processes to occur (Henniger, 2003). Students must learn how to think deeply about their learning so that they can take their place in a rapidly changing global society. Critical thinking involves the in-depth examination of topics from a variety of perspectives and calls for cognitive skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing,…

argument on an experience he went through when he was a teacher in public school. He worked with two different principals in the same school. Comparing these two principal, the first principal did not care about what students acquired from their lessons, and the students’ academic performance was really bad. The second principal was more worried about the knowledge and his students’ academic performance. Hirsch argues that school should teach more knowledge instead of mental skills, and American…

(Hilliard). Will you become a part of the solution for standardized testing for the people? Standardized testing is a good idea to test the students on how much they have retained from the class and the teacher. Standardized testing helps compare school districts and how teachers teach their students, but it devalues the goals of teachers who may have different. What the lessons and tests say is important may not be important for the teacher or what the state thinks is important. As a student,…

the country of Finland in comparison with the process used in the United States we can get a better idea of approaches taken by their country which has catapulted them from one of the lower ranked educational countries to the top of the list. The school systems of Finland and the United States vary in many ways. It it is no secret that the United States academics fall well behind internationally when compared not only to that of Finland but most other countries as well. Interestingly however,…

One complaint I have heard from numerous teachers in my school is that they must teach a simplified version of the subject matter to make the course passable for the largest number of students. Based on what I have read in the article, Asian teachers present information that is slightly too difficult so that…

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important is productive classroom practices in our schools and is a teacher in a mentoring role a necessary compenent to reach this ? What is high quality teaching and how is it recognised?’ The Victorian Auditor’s-general’s Report: Managing Teacher Performance in Government Schools, 2010, p.36) states simply good teaching has a positive effect on student learning and achievement. Bad teaching has a negative effect on student learning and achievement. Schools and their teachers need to be aware…