Sunday school

my mom was a teacher and I loved going to school. As I grew older I started to realize how much time and energy teachers put into each and every day. Reading this article reminded again just how much time teachers truly put into their job. As we looked at a day in the life of Jim, it showed how he had to plan out his day so that he would have enough time to get everything done. For example, because he was a coach in the afternoon, he had to come to school early to do his lesson planning and get…

As a student I was motivated throughout grade school to do good and try hard. I wanted all my art projects to be perfect. I think I was a pretty good students to have, I mean I wasn’t terrible. I enjoyed my early years of school but started to lack once I got to high school. I still enjoyed art class but not so much the other ones, like English. If I’m not very good at something then I hated doing it. I dreaded writing papers and usually waited until the last minute. English has never been my…

I want to be a teacher, but that was not what I was planning to be when I was applying to colleges. I was originally in the Nursing program, but changed to education after my freshman year at Keene State. One of my advisors in high school had said that he saw me as a teacher and I said I didn’t want anything to do with teaching because I saw what the long hours were like. It is funny how things have changed. Now, I cannot wait to be a teacher and have a positive impact on my students. I think…

practitioner quickly, as I am able to embed new skills immediately. In the coming years I aim to take on leadership responsibilities within a school. I believe that this course will equip me with a body of knowledge of management in education and leadership within schools, this will help me become an informed, capable and effective classroom practitioner and school leader. As part of my PGCE I was required to conduct some small scale class based action research, I would be very interested to…

(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,…

It was the last time I walked out of the old, nostalgic building that I had called my school for most of my life; each step took me farther from the familiar, constant life I once had. I clearly recall that emotional day that caused several of my classmates along with myself great trouble; it was likely one the most momentous moments of my life. The other students had lightheartedly poured out of the school building to jump start their summer, their unavoidable return in the following months…

In a 1979 court case, Larry P. v. Riles, which argued this issue, the court agreed that schools were indeed discriminatory, and they ruled each state to construct a plan to abolish the unequal enrollment of African American children in special education programs (Russo & Talbert-Johnson, 1997, p. 139). With the responsibility to address this issue in the states hands, the pressure ultimately is placed on school staff, psychologists, and test makers to ensure that tests are fair for all, biases…

Students would be choosing schools based not only on who would cover the cost of their tuition, but also who would pay them the most on top of that. 2. No longer would receiving the best education be a factor in athletes choosing a school. 3. They would be attending school based on money rather than their future and education. C. Smaller schools would have no chance at recruiting big time athletes. 1. All of the big time athletes would choose the bigger schools that can afford to pay…

People are taught how to read at a young age. They progress through school learning various techniques to help read the material more efficiently. One way is learning to how critique their assigned readings, and helps the young adults develop a better understanding of the text. A student assists their reading skills this way, because they are now able to apply different applications to the text. This opens their minds to understand different ways to interpret the reading rather than just form an…

Another part of Gandy’s statement shows that she believes that standardized testing portrays the “underlying racial inequity in our schools”, by showing school average academic performance and the differences between schools with higher numbers of low-income students, students of color, and white students or “good schools”. Standardized tests, Gandy thinks, show when a school is falling behind national standards due to the demographics of the student income averages and races. Gandy believes…