Personally, I believe in a traditional view of education, both for my children and for my students. Over the course of this semester, I have thoroughly formed my opinions of education. I believe that each child should have a chance at a decent education. Surprisingly, most progressives hold the same belief. They believe that public schools are the answer to that problem. However, the public school soon became the training ground for progressive educational ideology. Despite falling test scores and rising illiteracy, progressives still feel that their policies are working. When progressives forced the Bible out of school, they were attempting to remove the bias from the education system. My first reaction was of anger, of course, because …show more content…
However, I do feel that the teacher must be approachable in order to effectively gain the confidence of his students. It is sometimes hard to draw the line between friendly and approachable, but I believe that it has a lot to do with how you speak, rather than what you talk about. There is nothing wrong with finding something in common with a student and using that to get through to the student. In fact, both of my English teachers in high school were very approachable and amenable, but they always kept that aura of professionalism about them. They also used a higher level of grammar and vocabulary to distinguish themselves from the student. As a student myself, when I see a teacher who is attempting to be just like my peers by using poor grammar and sometimes even slang, I lose a lot of respect for that …show more content…
I will emphasis thinking in my classroom, not just learning. I feel that it is essential that each student be confronted with opposing beliefs so that they may learn how to respond. Many teachers and parents avoid questioning their children’s beliefs because they do not want to cause doubt. Logically, however, if you do not challenge your children or students in a Christian environment where you can help them, they will be challenged in a secular environment, where they may struggle to answer. Of course, I would not ask an elementary student to defend his belief in Creation, but I would absolutely ask a junior high student to defend his belief. Young Christians are being converted quickly by agnostics and atheists because they are not prepared to face a world of doubters and stand firm in their beliefs. Is it that child’s fault that he can’t defend his belief in Creation? Well, did you as the teacher or parent teach that child how to respond to seemingly logical claims? If the answer is no, then it is partially your fault that the student has never thought about what he believes. When you grow up in a Christian home, a Christian school, and a Christian college(which is a good thing), you tend to never be confronted because everyone believes the same things you
Many progressives thought that the greatest way to reform society was through its schools. Public education had grown rapidly since the Civil War. Progressives had new ideas about the purpose of education. Progressive educators believed that children should learn best by contributing in activities where they can work on projects and learn at their own rate. I thought this idea was a better way of learning because memorizing methods were really stressful and many people have diverse ways of learning: visual, hearing, hands on, and etc.
...child is taught that man, in current form, was put on this earth by God himself and then in the science class it is explained to them how man is evolved from primates. This is not virtuous at all for society. There needs to be a defining gap between religion and science. How are little children suppose to know which is right and which is wrong when they are told two different ways of how man has come upon this earth and they are contradictory. Religion however is deemed to be necessary by many people. They feel that people need some form of organized religion. Religion does help many people get through hard times in their life and gives them hope. However, it causes problems when science is introduced into the life of a child who is experiencing life and trying to figure out the world.
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... to changes to the current United States public schools. However, the people in charge of making the changes are the ones who profit and will probably never change their mindset. The school system needs to be changed entirely, but solutions to this problem simply aren’t out there. Experimentation needs to be done in certain school systems to determine the most successful method. Until then, the United States of America will continue to support a failing school system and will continue to produce uneducated adults.
This book, Dare The School Build a New Social Order by George Counts, is an examination of teachers, the Progressive Education Movement, democracy and his idea on how to reform the American economy. The book is divided into 5 different sections. The first section is all about the Progressive Education Movement. Through this, George Counts points out many downsides and weaknesses of this ideal. He also talks about how he wants teachers to lead society instead of following it. In the second section, he examines 10 widespread fallacies. These fallacies were that man is born free, that children are born free, they live in a separate world of their own, education remains unchanged, education should have no bias, the object of education is to produce professors, school is an all-powerful educational agency, ignorance rather than knowledge is the way of wisdom, and education is made to prepare an individual for social change.
School systems need to stop focusing on communistic equality and start focusing on diversity and individuality. The No Child Left Behind program has many flaws. One of its biggest is the form of learning. In “NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND” AFTER SIX YEARS: AN ESCALATING TRACK RECORD OF FAILURE, the team of Fairtest stated,
The use of progressivism in the classroom broadens students? points of views and expands their abilities to understand differences in opinions. Furthermore, it inculcates students with a vast array of knowledge about their surrounding environment and everyone in it. Without the use of the progressive method, it is almost impossible to thoroughly educate children on complex topics such as racism, religion, and people that come from different societies, nationalities, or ethnic groups. A lack of knowledge of this sort le...
Most people don’t see public schools as an issue. Reading through these readings I see that unfortunately our schools are failing some of our students. When reading A Place Called School Goodlad states, “Jencks went so far as to conclude that school reform could do little to reduce the extent of cognitive inequality among students. And he saw differences in schools as irrelevant in explaining differences in attainment among individuals” (pg.5). Clearly it says in the reading how some schools are not prepared to teach students. All schools need to have “equal education for all” which means giving all students the same equal education they deserve no matter what race or color they are. Every single student should have the opportunity to know about all the resources there are available in a public school because there are a lot more than people may think. In relation to equal education having the proper and same attention from the teacher is also part of it not only how they are being treated. I hope to make a difference about this issue when I have my own classroom because I know that the slightest difference does make a
One topic I enjoyed in this class was social interaction and social structure. Social interaction is how we interact with others in the world. Social structure is our status in the world. The one thing that stood out to me was the three different statuses. Ascribed status is a part of us, something that will never go away. My ascribed status is that I am an African American woman. Achieved status is the things we accomplish in life and put effort into. These are the things we freely do. My achieved status would be when I was in High School and I volunteered to mentor small kids at an elementary school. Also when I help my Aunt every year with grading her papers and helping her teach at her school. Master status is the status that makes up your
Writing a reflection and a summary of dozens of experiences is very challenging and demanding. I cannot count how many ups I had, yet I cannot deny the fact that I had some downs where I could transform them to ups. The year was full of challenges, excitement, fear and lessons. Each Wednesday I had mixed emotions. Every time I came to school I had the same fear and heartbreaks. In my reflection I am willing to compare between Adan at the beginning of the year and new Adan I became.
This class has opened my mind to the incredible impact that STEM Education can have on our society. I do not work in an institution that has a STEM program. I work at a preschool; this makes my practice of any type of STEM program extremely limited. However, it is a private school. All my students come from households where one or both of their parents are professionals. These professionals want their children to be academically prepared for school. This means we must academically, mentally, and emotionally prepare them for their future schooling. I teach my students how to be a functioning participant in a classroom while exploring mathematics, science, art, history, literature and pre-writing. Puzzles, counting, shapes, measuring, etc. are on the daily agenda. Science is a huge part of our curriculum. Science in the
A time approaches in every person’s life when they must come to learn new things. Speaking on behalf of all those who have attended school at some point in their life, I must say that most do not like it for its educational significance. Today’s youth undervalue the worth of America’s public school system to the point of shame. Hard-working, underpaid teachers and professors prepare to educate these ingrates as their living, and it’s exasperating for the students to not even care. I must be fair though and call attention to the fact that not everyone shares this loathe for education and schooling.
The two philosophies that I have chosen to write about for my Education Philosophy Paper includes progressivism and existentialism. Progressivism focuses on the child rather than the subject matter. Due to society always changing, new ideas are important to make the future better than the past for students learning. This educational philosophy stresses that students should test ideas by active experimentation. Learning is rooted in the questions of learners that arise through experiencing the world. Progressivists believe that individuality, progress, and change are fundamental to one 's education. Existentialism is a highly subjective philosophy that stresses the importance of the individual and emotional commitment to living authentically. It emphasizes individual choice over