Thursday, April 28, 2011
Group Nine Presentation
Group nine did their presentation on chapter 13. They talked about ways to motivate students to learn. Some ways were to get to know your students, use examples freely, and give students aas much control of their education as you can and test them in a lot of varities of ways. Overall the presentation really good and informative.
The Global Achievement Gap: Chapter 6
- Chapter six of Wageners book "the Global Achievement Gap", he writes about the network of charter schools in Sandiego, California. The charter school were called High Tech High. the school has been recognized because of their great turn out rate of student achievement.
A thing that set HIgh Tech High apart from other palces was the fact that they did not use textbooks as a way to learn things they used more projects and made it so the kids went out and found the information on their own.
High Tech HIgh also wanted to increase the number of students doing well in math and enginerring because in most schools they aer the two areas we fall most behind in.
The schools of High Tech Hih wanted to prepare their students for the outside world that they are going to have to face after they gradute from high school.
I feel like this school is taking us a step closer to reforming are schools and making them moer about teaching the kids and less about the adults
A thing that set HIgh Tech High apart from other palces was the fact that they did not use textbooks as a way to learn things they used more projects and made it so the kids went out and found the information on their own.
High Tech HIgh also wanted to increase the number of students doing well in math and enginerring because in most schools they aer the two areas we fall most behind in.
The schools of High Tech Hih wanted to prepare their students for the outside world that they are going to have to face after they gradute from high school.
I feel like this school is taking us a step closer to reforming are schools and making them moer about teaching the kids and less about the adults
Two Schools in Afghanistan, One Complicated Situation
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/weekinreview/24mortenson.html?ref=education
when two new schools were belt in Afghanistan many poeple thought that it was a great victory in helping the people but we have recently found out that one of the schools is empty and has been empty for a long time. Just because you throw mony down to buy a school for someone does not mean that they will take and go with it in the way that you want. The school was about an hour walk for the students every day and the parents did not want the kids to haver to do that every day because they thought that it would be really dangerous for them.
when two new schools were belt in Afghanistan many poeple thought that it was a great victory in helping the people but we have recently found out that one of the schools is empty and has been empty for a long time. Just because you throw mony down to buy a school for someone does not mean that they will take and go with it in the way that you want. The school was about an hour walk for the students every day and the parents did not want the kids to haver to do that every day because they thought that it would be really dangerous for them.
The Whiff of Plagiarism Again Hits German Elite
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/education/25iht-educside.html?ref=education
This article is about how they have found out that some of higher up people in Germany have been found to have plagerized some of their writings and speeches. this just goes to show that there is so many ways to be caught doing things in this day and age. with all the new technology you need to be more careful with what you do and say because it will eventually come back to you and cause you great harm.
This article is about how they have found out that some of higher up people in Germany have been found to have plagerized some of their writings and speeches. this just goes to show that there is so many ways to be caught doing things in this day and age. with all the new technology you need to be more careful with what you do and say because it will eventually come back to you and cause you great harm.
Funds Down for Pre-K Programs
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/education/26brfs-prek.html?ref=education
State funding for pre-k has gone down sigificantly in the past few years and i think this will cause alot of problems with the students when they go into normakl classes. Kids learn the most within the first 6 years of life and i think that kindergarten and pre school should be the last things we cut in the education system because that is the time were they learn the most.
State funding for pre-k has gone down sigificantly in the past few years and i think this will cause alot of problems with the students when they go into normakl classes. Kids learn the most within the first 6 years of life and i think that kindergarten and pre school should be the last things we cut in the education system because that is the time were they learn the most.
In a Mother’s Case, Reminders of Educational Inequalities
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/nyregion/some-see-educational-inequality-at-heart-of-connecticut-case.html?_r=1&ref=education
This is an article about a ,other how lied about twhere she lived so she could put her 5 year child into a better school trhen where she lived.
i think that it is sad that she had to go to such desperate measures to give her kid a better life. she is facing seriouse jail time for doing this though. i know that she broke the law, but i just dont see how what she did could be punished so severly. What she did was not something out of anger and i dont see how it negativly hurt anyone else. I think that a child should be given equal education all over America because obiously there is something wrong with how are education system is being run now.
This is an article about a ,other how lied about twhere she lived so she could put her 5 year child into a better school trhen where she lived.
i think that it is sad that she had to go to such desperate measures to give her kid a better life. she is facing seriouse jail time for doing this though. i know that she broke the law, but i just dont see how what she did could be punished so severly. What she did was not something out of anger and i dont see how it negativly hurt anyone else. I think that a child should be given equal education all over America because obiously there is something wrong with how are education system is being run now.
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
By: Ariel Schneider
I do believe that a teacher should not be safe from being fired from their job just because they have tenure. Our number one priority should be about the kids and not about the adults. When people talk about this issue they always seemed to forget about how these changes will affect the students. With all these budget cuts on the education system, all of the new teachers, that could be really great at their job or only fired because of the fact that you can’t get rid of the teachers that are protected by their tenure. A teacher should be kept because they are doing a good job, not because they have been there longer then another teacher.
Although I do believe that there should be some type of change to the teaching tenure, I do not think that teacher’s evaluations should be based on how well their students do on a test. By having the students tests determine how well the state believes the teacher is doing, is not only putting a lot of pressure on the teacher but it is also putting a lot of unneeded pressure on the student. If this bill will be allowed to pass I believe the kids today will be even worse off than they were be for in education. Having so many tests does not help a student learn, the only thing they are learning to do in school, is how to take a test.
I believe that teachers should be evaluated every 5 years, but they needed to be evaluated based on observations done by the principle and these observations should not be told they are going to happen before hand. The teacher should not know that they are going to be observed, so they do not have time to prepare a great lesson for that day and then go back to their normal teaching patterns. This type of evaluation will take the stress of the student and will allow then more time to learn from their teacher and it will more accurately evaluate the teachers with tenures.
By: Ariel Schneider
I do believe that a teacher should not be safe from being fired from their job just because they have tenure. Our number one priority should be about the kids and not about the adults. When people talk about this issue they always seemed to forget about how these changes will affect the students. With all these budget cuts on the education system, all of the new teachers, that could be really great at their job or only fired because of the fact that you can’t get rid of the teachers that are protected by their tenure. A teacher should be kept because they are doing a good job, not because they have been there longer then another teacher.
Although I do believe that there should be some type of change to the teaching tenure, I do not think that teacher’s evaluations should be based on how well their students do on a test. By having the students tests determine how well the state believes the teacher is doing, is not only putting a lot of pressure on the teacher but it is also putting a lot of unneeded pressure on the student. If this bill will be allowed to pass I believe the kids today will be even worse off than they were be for in education. Having so many tests does not help a student learn, the only thing they are learning to do in school, is how to take a test.
I believe that teachers should be evaluated every 5 years, but they needed to be evaluated based on observations done by the principle and these observations should not be told they are going to happen before hand. The teacher should not know that they are going to be observed, so they do not have time to prepare a great lesson for that day and then go back to their normal teaching patterns. This type of evaluation will take the stress of the student and will allow then more time to learn from their teacher and it will more accurately evaluate the teachers with tenures.
Philosophy of Education paper
Ariel Schneider
04/16/2011
SPED 201
Philosophy of Education Paper I believe that children are our future and they need to be our number one priority and I also believe that we need to teach the students of the next generation to be more globally competent so our societies can thrive. In my paper I will talk about; first what you should expect from the learner, the role of the society and the role the teachers play in the life of the learner, how to prepare the students for global competence in the 21st century, and then I will end with talking about how a classroom should be organized and what kind of environment should be provided for the student. All of these things are equally needed in the life of the students to insure that they will be equally educated and put to the highest standards.
I remember when I was in 6th grade and my math teacher would always tell us how she wished that she could just unscrew the top of our heads and just put the information into us without any effort. This would solve many problems if it worked, but as you grow up you realize that life is not an easy thing and has very few easy answers. After watching many videos and reading many articles on education I feel like I am left with even more questions than answers then I was to begin with. Hopefully with my paper I can figure out and answers a few of the biggest questions that are hurting are education system in today’s fast and busy world.
The most important thing in our societies is the youth of our world. The next generation should always be the most important thing to any societies because they keep the society moving by creating new things and come up with new and fresh ideas that are needed to keep societies up and running for hundreds of years to come. I believe that all children are born with a want to learn new things. Human being’s are all born with a few similar basic instincts and I believe that a want to learn, is one of those instincts that all human beings have. It does not matter where you are born or what ethnicity you are, everyone wants to learn new things and be able to be a part of a functioning society. No child is born with any type of stereotypes nor do they have any prejudice against anyone, all of these things are learned by the child’s family or the society that they grew up in. That is why it is our job as members of a society to teach children the differences in people and teach them how to except and embrace these differences.
In order to be more globally competent with the rest of the world we need to make students our number one priority. We can do this by first making sure that every school in America has the same technology as every other school around them. What is the purpose of schools that are failing their students because they do not have the same things that other schools are fortunate to have. Why should there be a price tag on what we are willing to spend on the children of our nation. Not only do I think that we are putting a price tag on our children but I also think we are putting some of them on clearance, and as many people know when you buy things that are cheaper, they are also of cheaper quality. I think that kids should be the most well done thing in our society.
I believe that schools should focus less on having the students take tests and put a bigger focus on preparing the students to figure things out on their own. After watching a video on how and why Finland is ranking the highest in education, I can see that tests are not needed and sometimes do not accurately measure a student’s level of education. By having the students learn something by themselves you are not only having them learn whatever they are researching but you are also allowing them to see how to solve a problem on their own and use their own ideas, which will greatly benefit them later on in life when they are in their carrier. Today’s new generation is all about having their own independence, so I believe by focusing more on projects then tests, will provide a more comfortable environment for today’s students to learn.
A school should also emphasize other cultures in the world. I believe that students should have to, at the very least, learn to be fluent in two languages. I think that students should learn these two different languages starting in kindergarten. I think that a student in America should either be fluent in Spanish or Chinese because they are the two leading languages other than English in the world. In order for America to have a good standing in world, we need to be able to communicate with people from other parts of the world. After watching a video on the Chinese Immersion Program I was able to see that the students that learn Chinese are not only still fluent in English but they are also doing better than the students that only learned English. I think that the only reason that the kids today are not learning different languages is because of the fear of change that a lot of Americans have today. Many people in America just assume that by having their kids learn another language other than English, is going to somehow effect the fluency in their own language, when in reality it helps the kids learn better. We need educate the people in our society so they can see how these kinds of changes in our education system will greatly help the future generations.
The teachers of our schools play one of the most important roles in each student’s educational lives. Teachers should be people that a student feels comfortable to talk to and they should also be someone that the student’s respect. In order for the students to feel comfortable with the teacher, they need to know that the teacher believes in them. By knowing that a teacher believes in your abilities to learn, you will be more apt to want to prove the teacher right. Teachers need to realize just how much of an impact that they have on their students lives. I believe that having an engaging teacher that not only demands respect but also gives it will help the students in their quest in learning.
In order for a student to learn they need to have a good teacher. Teachers need to find an effective way to teach their students. I have known teachers that can make a very interesting subject boring, but I have also met teachers that can make a very boring subject surprisingly interesting. I remember when I took a class on rocks and minerals, I thought it was going to be the most boring class I have ever taken before, but it turned out to be one of the best classes I have ever taken in my life. All though the subject of rocks is not interesting to me, the teacher was just so excited and so happy to teach us about rocks that you found yourself in her class, also getting happy and excited to learn about rocks. That teacher indirectly taught me a lot about what it means to be a good and effective teacher. She would have us go out in the middle of a lecture and find a rock outside and bring it in and she would come up to you and start talking to you about what your rock is and other things that you did not even know about it. In order to be a good teacher you need to engage your students, have them figure things out on their own so that they are able to create new things and come up with their own ideas for the future.
As I have stated early, in order for our students to be globally competent they need to be able to communicate with other countries in other ways then just English. We should teach kids other languages when they are very young so they are able to become very fluent in many languages. We should also put a big emphasis on teaching students about other cultures and ethnicities. We should teach kids today that not everyone in the world is the same and we should learn about other people’s differences so we know how to best communicate with other people in the world. Businesses that want to sell things to places around the world need to know about other countries culture. An example of a company that did not have really good global competence was Kellogg cereal company. Although Kellogg does really well here in America, they did not realize when they tried to sell their stuff in India it would not do as well. They failed to realize some of India’s basic cultural rituals. They did not realize that most people in India do not like to have cold things in the morning, so when they tried to have cereal in hot milk it turned to mush and the cereal was soon not being bought by the people of India. Simple things like this can cost companies millions of dollars so we need to teach our students that it is important to know about other cultures.
Another way to prepare students to be globally competent is to show them how much better other countries are doing than us and that we are not as good as many people think we are. When I watched a movie called “Waiting for Superman”, I learned that the only thing that America comes first in that has to do with education is confidence. While it is good sometimes to be confident, there comes a point where we have to realize that we are not as good as we think we are. I had no idea until this class that the United States was not number one in education. I think that people in America are very competitive, and if people realize that we are competing with people that do not even live in America they will hopefully realize that they have to try even harder to make it in the world. I think that many of the kids today do not realize how much competition they are going to have to face after they graduate from high school.
When I become a teacher I will make sure that everyone in my classroom is able to understand what I am talking about. I plan to bring up other cultures and other beliefs from other places around the world that have to do with whatever topic I am talking about. I want my students to be able to know many things from not just our culture but from other people cultures as well. I will do this by not just talking about one culture for one week then never bring it up again, I plan to constantly remind my students that different people have different beliefs and different ways of going about things.
Not only will I make sure that my students are culturally aware but I will also make sure they, like Wagner says, in his book “The Global Achievement Gap”, are able to figure things out on their own and I will make sure that they are confident enough in their own abilities to make up their own ideas and their own answers. I will do these things by having many discussions in my classroom and having the students run the discussion without my help. I will also do this by having many projects that put the student in charge of learning the material on their own. I might also, if it can work, have my kids have no homework and trust in them that they will learn what they are suppose to by the time of the test. I want my kids in my classroom to feel comfortable enough to talk to me and most importantly I want them to want to come to class each and every day.
I believe that kids are the most important thing in our society and they should be treated as such. I believe kids should also become more globally competent in today’s competitive world. We can make this happen by cutting down on the amount of tests students have to take, focus on other cultures in the classroom and realize their differences from our own, and we also need to make it so there is equal opportunity for every student in every school district all over America. I believe that teachers are one of the most important people in every student’s life and every teacher needs to realize that they are a role model for a lot of people. I hope to be a teacher that can gain the respect from their student’s and provide an environment for the students that is welcoming and a place where they feel safe. I believe that teachers are just as important as doctors in our world. They are both professions with people who want to help and take care of other people and they are both highly needed in order to keep a society functioning. I have known I had wanted to be a teacher since the 4th grade. When I was in the 4th grade I was really bad at reading and hated to do it and my teacher knew this so one day she pulled me aside and asked if I would like to eat lunch with her that day. During lunch she told me about all these books that she was reading and was telling me how much she wanted me to try and read them, and when I told her that I was not a good enough reader to read book she looked and me like I was crazy and said “yes you can, I know you can read those books”. She gave a few of her books from her shelf and told me to go home and read some of them so we could talk about them during lunch the next day. So that is what I did and ever since, have loved to read books and I owe it all to her believing in me and I just wish to someday have that kind of impact on a child. I want to be a teacher that kids will look back on years after school and think about how much that teacher had changed how they live their life.
04/16/2011
SPED 201
Philosophy of Education Paper I believe that children are our future and they need to be our number one priority and I also believe that we need to teach the students of the next generation to be more globally competent so our societies can thrive. In my paper I will talk about; first what you should expect from the learner, the role of the society and the role the teachers play in the life of the learner, how to prepare the students for global competence in the 21st century, and then I will end with talking about how a classroom should be organized and what kind of environment should be provided for the student. All of these things are equally needed in the life of the students to insure that they will be equally educated and put to the highest standards.
I remember when I was in 6th grade and my math teacher would always tell us how she wished that she could just unscrew the top of our heads and just put the information into us without any effort. This would solve many problems if it worked, but as you grow up you realize that life is not an easy thing and has very few easy answers. After watching many videos and reading many articles on education I feel like I am left with even more questions than answers then I was to begin with. Hopefully with my paper I can figure out and answers a few of the biggest questions that are hurting are education system in today’s fast and busy world.
The most important thing in our societies is the youth of our world. The next generation should always be the most important thing to any societies because they keep the society moving by creating new things and come up with new and fresh ideas that are needed to keep societies up and running for hundreds of years to come. I believe that all children are born with a want to learn new things. Human being’s are all born with a few similar basic instincts and I believe that a want to learn, is one of those instincts that all human beings have. It does not matter where you are born or what ethnicity you are, everyone wants to learn new things and be able to be a part of a functioning society. No child is born with any type of stereotypes nor do they have any prejudice against anyone, all of these things are learned by the child’s family or the society that they grew up in. That is why it is our job as members of a society to teach children the differences in people and teach them how to except and embrace these differences.
In order to be more globally competent with the rest of the world we need to make students our number one priority. We can do this by first making sure that every school in America has the same technology as every other school around them. What is the purpose of schools that are failing their students because they do not have the same things that other schools are fortunate to have. Why should there be a price tag on what we are willing to spend on the children of our nation. Not only do I think that we are putting a price tag on our children but I also think we are putting some of them on clearance, and as many people know when you buy things that are cheaper, they are also of cheaper quality. I think that kids should be the most well done thing in our society.
I believe that schools should focus less on having the students take tests and put a bigger focus on preparing the students to figure things out on their own. After watching a video on how and why Finland is ranking the highest in education, I can see that tests are not needed and sometimes do not accurately measure a student’s level of education. By having the students learn something by themselves you are not only having them learn whatever they are researching but you are also allowing them to see how to solve a problem on their own and use their own ideas, which will greatly benefit them later on in life when they are in their carrier. Today’s new generation is all about having their own independence, so I believe by focusing more on projects then tests, will provide a more comfortable environment for today’s students to learn.
A school should also emphasize other cultures in the world. I believe that students should have to, at the very least, learn to be fluent in two languages. I think that students should learn these two different languages starting in kindergarten. I think that a student in America should either be fluent in Spanish or Chinese because they are the two leading languages other than English in the world. In order for America to have a good standing in world, we need to be able to communicate with people from other parts of the world. After watching a video on the Chinese Immersion Program I was able to see that the students that learn Chinese are not only still fluent in English but they are also doing better than the students that only learned English. I think that the only reason that the kids today are not learning different languages is because of the fear of change that a lot of Americans have today. Many people in America just assume that by having their kids learn another language other than English, is going to somehow effect the fluency in their own language, when in reality it helps the kids learn better. We need educate the people in our society so they can see how these kinds of changes in our education system will greatly help the future generations.
The teachers of our schools play one of the most important roles in each student’s educational lives. Teachers should be people that a student feels comfortable to talk to and they should also be someone that the student’s respect. In order for the students to feel comfortable with the teacher, they need to know that the teacher believes in them. By knowing that a teacher believes in your abilities to learn, you will be more apt to want to prove the teacher right. Teachers need to realize just how much of an impact that they have on their students lives. I believe that having an engaging teacher that not only demands respect but also gives it will help the students in their quest in learning.
In order for a student to learn they need to have a good teacher. Teachers need to find an effective way to teach their students. I have known teachers that can make a very interesting subject boring, but I have also met teachers that can make a very boring subject surprisingly interesting. I remember when I took a class on rocks and minerals, I thought it was going to be the most boring class I have ever taken before, but it turned out to be one of the best classes I have ever taken in my life. All though the subject of rocks is not interesting to me, the teacher was just so excited and so happy to teach us about rocks that you found yourself in her class, also getting happy and excited to learn about rocks. That teacher indirectly taught me a lot about what it means to be a good and effective teacher. She would have us go out in the middle of a lecture and find a rock outside and bring it in and she would come up to you and start talking to you about what your rock is and other things that you did not even know about it. In order to be a good teacher you need to engage your students, have them figure things out on their own so that they are able to create new things and come up with their own ideas for the future.
As I have stated early, in order for our students to be globally competent they need to be able to communicate with other countries in other ways then just English. We should teach kids other languages when they are very young so they are able to become very fluent in many languages. We should also put a big emphasis on teaching students about other cultures and ethnicities. We should teach kids today that not everyone in the world is the same and we should learn about other people’s differences so we know how to best communicate with other people in the world. Businesses that want to sell things to places around the world need to know about other countries culture. An example of a company that did not have really good global competence was Kellogg cereal company. Although Kellogg does really well here in America, they did not realize when they tried to sell their stuff in India it would not do as well. They failed to realize some of India’s basic cultural rituals. They did not realize that most people in India do not like to have cold things in the morning, so when they tried to have cereal in hot milk it turned to mush and the cereal was soon not being bought by the people of India. Simple things like this can cost companies millions of dollars so we need to teach our students that it is important to know about other cultures.
Another way to prepare students to be globally competent is to show them how much better other countries are doing than us and that we are not as good as many people think we are. When I watched a movie called “Waiting for Superman”, I learned that the only thing that America comes first in that has to do with education is confidence. While it is good sometimes to be confident, there comes a point where we have to realize that we are not as good as we think we are. I had no idea until this class that the United States was not number one in education. I think that people in America are very competitive, and if people realize that we are competing with people that do not even live in America they will hopefully realize that they have to try even harder to make it in the world. I think that many of the kids today do not realize how much competition they are going to have to face after they graduate from high school.
When I become a teacher I will make sure that everyone in my classroom is able to understand what I am talking about. I plan to bring up other cultures and other beliefs from other places around the world that have to do with whatever topic I am talking about. I want my students to be able to know many things from not just our culture but from other people cultures as well. I will do this by not just talking about one culture for one week then never bring it up again, I plan to constantly remind my students that different people have different beliefs and different ways of going about things.
Not only will I make sure that my students are culturally aware but I will also make sure they, like Wagner says, in his book “The Global Achievement Gap”, are able to figure things out on their own and I will make sure that they are confident enough in their own abilities to make up their own ideas and their own answers. I will do these things by having many discussions in my classroom and having the students run the discussion without my help. I will also do this by having many projects that put the student in charge of learning the material on their own. I might also, if it can work, have my kids have no homework and trust in them that they will learn what they are suppose to by the time of the test. I want my kids in my classroom to feel comfortable enough to talk to me and most importantly I want them to want to come to class each and every day.
I believe that kids are the most important thing in our society and they should be treated as such. I believe kids should also become more globally competent in today’s competitive world. We can make this happen by cutting down on the amount of tests students have to take, focus on other cultures in the classroom and realize their differences from our own, and we also need to make it so there is equal opportunity for every student in every school district all over America. I believe that teachers are one of the most important people in every student’s life and every teacher needs to realize that they are a role model for a lot of people. I hope to be a teacher that can gain the respect from their student’s and provide an environment for the students that is welcoming and a place where they feel safe. I believe that teachers are just as important as doctors in our world. They are both professions with people who want to help and take care of other people and they are both highly needed in order to keep a society functioning. I have known I had wanted to be a teacher since the 4th grade. When I was in the 4th grade I was really bad at reading and hated to do it and my teacher knew this so one day she pulled me aside and asked if I would like to eat lunch with her that day. During lunch she told me about all these books that she was reading and was telling me how much she wanted me to try and read them, and when I told her that I was not a good enough reader to read book she looked and me like I was crazy and said “yes you can, I know you can read those books”. She gave a few of her books from her shelf and told me to go home and read some of them so we could talk about them during lunch the next day. So that is what I did and ever since, have loved to read books and I owe it all to her believing in me and I just wish to someday have that kind of impact on a child. I want to be a teacher that kids will look back on years after school and think about how much that teacher had changed how they live their life.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Scotland Wrestles with question of tuition fees
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/education/25iht-educlede.html?_r=1&ref=education
In 2011 students from scotland may have to pay tution fees to attend certain colleges and are going to have to pay as much as $15,000 a year.
I was surprised when i read that the studentsin Scotland dd not have to pay tution fees in the first place and i thought that was really interesting and is a good way to get alot of people to go to college and to get educted. I know alot of people that would have gone to college if they could only pay to go there. I think that it is sad that they are soon going to haer to start paying to go to school and i thnk that there will be less people that will be going to college because of it.
In 2011 students from scotland may have to pay tution fees to attend certain colleges and are going to have to pay as much as $15,000 a year.
I was surprised when i read that the studentsin Scotland dd not have to pay tution fees in the first place and i thought that was really interesting and is a good way to get alot of people to go to college and to get educted. I know alot of people that would have gone to college if they could only pay to go there. I think that it is sad that they are soon going to haer to start paying to go to school and i thnk that there will be less people that will be going to college because of it.
Philpsophy of Education
In class we took a survey from the book that categorized you into four different categories; Perenilism, Essentialism, Progressivism, and Social Reconstruction. I scored the lowest in Essentialism and Perenialism. I got a 11 in Essentialism and a 13 in Perenilism. I scored the highest in social reconsruction and Progressivism. I got a 18 in Progressivism and a 17 in social recostrustion. social recontruction is the idea about improving the world around us and making kids figur things out on their own sometimes. Progressivism is the the idea that students learn best by doing things then just by reading it from a text book.
Group Eight Presentation
Group eight talked about classroom managment. they also talked about how to make the classroom a welcoming place for the students. I order to make your classroom a welcoming place they said you should do this by asking them how they are doing and involoving them in lesson plans and to also call your students by their first name. I think the group had a very good and informative speech.
The Type of Teacher I want to be
I want to be a teacher that not only teaches the students but i alo want to be a teacher that has a big impact on the students lives and with the studt learn and grow. I want to be a teacher that a student feels comfortable to talk with but also a teacher that has respect from the students. I want to be a teacher that puts the students before myself. I want to make my classroom a fun place to come to and a place were the kids look forward to going to. I want to be able to teach my students things that they acn use through out their whole lives. I want to teach my students not only things that they learn in their text books but i want to be able to teach my students how to treat other people and on how they should be treated as well. I hope i will be able to accomplish all of these things throughout my carrier and that i do not lose sight of these goals.
Students First Website
http://www.studentsfirst.org/
this website was founded and is run by a women named Michelle Rhee. Michelle Rhee was the chancellor for the D.C. Public Scools. She was let go after the new mayor of D.C. was hired. So Michelle Rhee decided that she was notgoing o stop in the fight to hel the children of America get a fair education and she put up this sight to gain followers and supporters. Michelle Rhee thinks that we are putting the adults before the students and she thinks that it should be the other way around. She thinks that we should get rid of tenure because it is only helping the teacher and is negatively effecting the chidren in the public schools. She thinks that tenure makes it difficult for schoos to have many good teachers because the new teachers are getting fired before the older ones, not because of talent bu because the older ones have been there longer. the site is really interesting and informative and will hopefully get many supporters.
this website was founded and is run by a women named Michelle Rhee. Michelle Rhee was the chancellor for the D.C. Public Scools. She was let go after the new mayor of D.C. was hired. So Michelle Rhee decided that she was notgoing o stop in the fight to hel the children of America get a fair education and she put up this sight to gain followers and supporters. Michelle Rhee thinks that we are putting the adults before the students and she thinks that it should be the other way around. She thinks that we should get rid of tenure because it is only helping the teacher and is negatively effecting the chidren in the public schools. She thinks that tenure makes it difficult for schoos to have many good teachers because the new teachers are getting fired before the older ones, not because of talent bu because the older ones have been there longer. the site is really interesting and informative and will hopefully get many supporters.
The Finland Phenomenon
Finland has the top rank in the worlds educatoinal system. The people in Finland view edcation as the number oe priority. This video went into how and why Finland became and is number oe in education in the whole world. The video compares Finland to the United states and talks about how their defferences may contribute to their very different ranks in the ranking of world wide education.
The top three things that i thought were the most different between Finalands schools and American schools are, there are no tests in Finland schools, 5 year teaching program, and the sudents in Finland spend more time learning things on their on.
These three differences i feel greatly contribute to he fact that Finland is doing much better in education then the United Staes.
The top three things that i thought were the most different between Finalands schools and American schools are, there are no tests in Finland schools, 5 year teaching program, and the sudents in Finland spend more time learning things on their on.
These three differences i feel greatly contribute to he fact that Finland is doing much better in education then the United Staes.
Field Experience Reflection
I did my field experience in my home town of Zimmerman. I was in the classroom with kindergarteners and the teacher, Mrs. Eversman, was my old kindergarten teacher. It was a very great experience, I was scared at first because I remember being somewhat scared of kindergarten teacher so I felt very intimidated. When I went in for my first day of student teaching it was a dress up day. When I walked into my kindergarten class the kids were at lunch and the teacher was sitting at her desk dressed as Rapunzel. What was a really interesting way to start my student teaching experience but it also made me feel more comfortable and relaxed. The first day I just went around getting to know some of the students and it just amazed me how happy they were to learn and interact with everyone around them. The students were not judging each other and everyone in the class room was treated as equals and it was just really good to see that kind of equality amongst everyone.
During my field experience I helped a few of the kids prepare for their tests that they had to pass to move on to first grade. It amazed me how much they could remember and how much they already knew. Even though I was intimidated at first for having my kindergarten teacher I am now so glad that I did. She is an amazing teacher and I am so happy that she allowed me to come in and observe her teaching techniques. Everywhere around the room was books, toys, and just a bunch of projects that she had just brought from home or bought with her own money and it just amazed me to see how much see cared about her students and how much time and energy she put into teaching every single one of them. After spending a few months with watching her class I feel much better prepared to become a teacher and just watching her interact with her students made me so much more excited to become a teacher myself. I hope to someday become a teacher like her.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
California May Require Teaching of Gay History
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/us/16schools.html?ref=education
If the bill passes in this upcoming week schools in California will have to start teaching about, Black history, Womens History and Homosexual history. it could b the first in the contry to mandate that public schools have to teach about gay history. The bill does no give many requirments, just that the contrabution of gay and lesbian people in the United States. The bill is intended to prevent bullying of gay and lesbian students and is also intended to stop stereotypes and hatred that some kids hold for gay and lesbian people.
I think that this is a great idea. I think that it will slowly help the bullying of gay students. I also fell like it greatly help reduc the number of sucides committed by gay and lesbian teenagers, gay and lesbian kids are three times as likely to commite suicide then the average person. I think that once people are more educated about homsexuailty they will be less hostile towards gay people. I hope this bill gets passed and more states fallow this example
If the bill passes in this upcoming week schools in California will have to start teaching about, Black history, Womens History and Homosexual history. it could b the first in the contry to mandate that public schools have to teach about gay history. The bill does no give many requirments, just that the contrabution of gay and lesbian people in the United States. The bill is intended to prevent bullying of gay and lesbian students and is also intended to stop stereotypes and hatred that some kids hold for gay and lesbian people.
I think that this is a great idea. I think that it will slowly help the bullying of gay students. I also fell like it greatly help reduc the number of sucides committed by gay and lesbian teenagers, gay and lesbian kids are three times as likely to commite suicide then the average person. I think that once people are more educated about homsexuailty they will be less hostile towards gay people. I hope this bill gets passed and more states fallow this example
Global Achievement Gap: Chapter 5
Chapter five of the "Global Achievemnt Gap" was about how to motivate the students and how to prepare them for the outside world. *The chapter starts out talking about how the kids today have very poor work ethics. After reading that it made think about the people at my work. At my work most of the teenagers are very lazy and do not like being told what to do. In the book Wagner says that some peope think that kidsw today do not have poor work ethics, rather they are motivated in different ways.
*Wagner then went on to talk about how kids todat are always doing many things at once and not just focusin on getting one task done at a time. He talks about how much of this has to do with the rapid growth of technology in the past few years. Kids today always talking on the phone, textting, or on the internet.
*He then talks about how we should use these technology adavances to our on advantage in the classroom. Kids of today learn new information differently then people used to, so we should teach thm in the sme way that they are more familery with.
*Many of the kids today do want to be challenged and fell like they are able to accomplish things on their own. Teachers need to let the kids figure things out on their own but also help them along to.
*He then talked about the importance of student-teacher relationships. He says that kids need to be able to feel like they can talk to their teacher and to also be able to somewhat relate to their teachers as well.
*Wagner then went on to talk about how kids todat are always doing many things at once and not just focusin on getting one task done at a time. He talks about how much of this has to do with the rapid growth of technology in the past few years. Kids today always talking on the phone, textting, or on the internet.
*He then talks about how we should use these technology adavances to our on advantage in the classroom. Kids of today learn new information differently then people used to, so we should teach thm in the sme way that they are more familery with.
*Many of the kids today do want to be challenged and fell like they are able to accomplish things on their own. Teachers need to let the kids figure things out on their own but also help them along to.
*He then talked about the importance of student-teacher relationships. He says that kids need to be able to feel like they can talk to their teacher and to also be able to somewhat relate to their teachers as well.
Group Seven Presentation
Group seven di their presentation on chapter 10 ,School Law. They talked about the United States legal system that had to do with our education system. They talked about a few of the amendments that effect the education system. They then went on ton talk about the bounderies in student-teacher relationships. they showed us a clip on whether teachers should be friends with their students on facebook of if they should even have a facebook to begin with. I think that teachers should nt be friends with their studens on facebook until the students have graduated from highschool. I think that teachers should wait to add their student unil after high school because the teachers could get introuble if the students were to see things on the teachers faebook that the parents do not think that they their children should see. They then went on to talk about what is happening in Wisconsin. Overall I thought that their presentation was very good and it seemed like they were well prepaired.
Group Six Presentation
Group six did their presentation on school governance. They handed out Anoka-Hennepins finances booklet. it was a really good visual as for their presentation. They also had us discuss what we think should be done about school funding issues, it was hard for any of us in the audience to think of a way to solve the problem. They talked about some alternatives to local control, and one that they brought up that I thought was very interesting, was insted of school boards, the Mayor of the city should be incharge and incontrol of the school district. They ended their presentation with talking about alternative schools, like private, charter and KIPP schools. At the very end they handed out a crossword puzzle with all the key vocab terms in the chapter they presented on. Overall I thought that their presentation was very well done and very informative.
Waiting For Superman
We watch the movie, "waiting for superman" in class. I thought it was a very interesting and very well done movie. I grew up in a middle class family in a small town so I had know idea that there were kids out there that had their whole future placed into a lottery. It was sad to see that alot of the people in the teaching world seem not to care so much about the kids, but more about themselves. The movie showed many of the flaws in the American education system. I think that we should modify the teacher tenure, because obviously there are may flaws in it that are greatly effecting the children in America. We should, however, not get rid of it completly, because it does help protect the teacher if they were to be sued by someone. But I do not think that a tenure should be able to give a teacher a perminate position. A teacher that is doing bad should be able to get fired because they are not only hurting the schools scores but they are also hurting the students. Like the movie showed, it should be more about the studens and less about the adults.
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