“Since Sandy Hook there has been a school shooting, on average, every week. How on earth can live with ourselves if we do nothing.” Said Senator Chris Murphy. According to the statistics, there has at least one school shooting since 2013. However there was a tragic event happened before. For Instance, The Virginia Tech School massacre was a school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007 on the campus of Virginia polytechnic institute. This deadliest shooting incident happened by a single…
room and help out my classmates to make sure they were understanding the material in front of them. I loved going around the classroom and helping my classmates learn. Nothing had ever given me so much joy. After a long day at school, I would immediately run home and play school with my Barbie’s and teach them what I had learned in class earlier that day. It was…
School officials have taken some crucial steps toward improving student’s performance in school. School officials have gathered new teachers and put metric steps in place to obtain data that can and will allow them to build a stronger school. The effort expands further than just to the students however. Teachers are also measured off these metrics as well and how hard they work to improve the students understanding and attendance to school work. This started when Chicago won a $20 million in…
civic-mindedness, courage, compassion, resourcefulness, sense of beauty, sense of wonder, honesty, integrity." There is more to a student than just how well or how poorly one does on a standardized test, but the tests themselves measure or inform schools that. On that same note, these tests don’t necessarily show us we’re capable of or how much we’ve learned. It only shows what a student is capable of in a single time frame without taking into account the emotional or the mental state of that…
was too in Kindergarten by my older sister. Kids my age after school usually finished any homework assigned; then played with friends or watch television. On the other hand, I was taught in my old house which was pretty small and my sister, whom taught me it; she was in third grade She would love to play to “school” with me, it went a little like “I’ll be the teacher and you can be the student”. I would come home from a long day at school all tired, wanting to sleep and just wanting to stuff my…
In most cases, however, the American public school system is divided in a way that isolates the rich from poor. The gap between rich and poor is reflected on the students’ academic performance. The academic performance of urban students is caused by the better quality in their education. Availability…
This class has made me look at education and teaching in a different way. I never realized how much effort and energy teachers have to put in. There are so many more issues a teacher has to face then students notice. Teaching is so much more than showing up to class with a quick thrown together lesson plan. You don’t only have to teach these kids certain information, you need to teach it really good for each and every student to understand. When not every student understands the same that makes…
In Indian education system, students have to study a specific set of subject even if they are not good at it or not interested in it. For instance me, I had to study a subject in which I wasn 't interested since I was a kid, which was computer science. I had to study this subject from grade 1st till grade 8th as a compulsory subject. Creating interest in computer science was just like an alarm bell rings. As I was at a critical stage (class11), with a heavy heart, I had to choose a course in…
The selection of the highly effective teachers is vital to the success of a school. In order for a school to be more effective, it has to be staffed with the right people who understand the mission and vision of the school as well as understand the importance of continuous growth. To improve teaching and learning, highly effective principals realize the importance of surrounding themselves with highly effective teachers who have a desire to do the job well. Fink and Resnick (2001) asserts,…
In this case study, Rich Thorpe is an extremely passionate first-year teacher at West Alton High School. Rich was very grateful to have received this job, and has put a lot of effort into his teaching, despite the pressures of a first year teacher. For the first three quarters of the year, he has had good classroom management skills, and his students respect him as a teacher. He clearly spends time thinking about his students because when he noticed a few of them were struggling toward the end…