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.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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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