I discovered Proverbs 27:17 and it reads, "as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." This process removes the old and reveals something new, new ways of thinking and new ways of getting things done. It is because of my passion for this process why I seek admission into Penn GSE. I see education, mentoring, and tutoring as the same process of iron sharpening iron where the process is reciprocal. The teacher is a part of the learning process, and the student is a part of the teaching process.
I gained a greater understanding of the role of education in society in general and in urban America, more specifically, during my undergraduate tenure at Penn. My experiences have been both varied and relevant through the ABCS courses taken. In every case, I was exposed to iron sharpening iron as a necessity to educate inner-city students effectively. I was exposed to environments where educational openness created a canopy for student and where teachers are responsible for what is being taught and ultimately what is being learned.
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I live with the daily presence of ADD, dyslexia, and dysgraphia well as memory lapses. This personal journey is why education is so important to me; I will never be your typical all A 's Ivy League student. But I am not in awe of the academic rigors of grad school environment because at Penn I have taken grad level courses that academically stimulated and I was able to garner excellent grades from those courses. But I also came to Penn as an athlete, and I found the need to become a real student–athlete; I needed
From reading the book, I have developed my own stance that the book education system is similar to today’s education system. I can relate with the text because I have noticed most of my history fails to mention successes of the Negroes. In fact, I was astonished that Dr. George Washington Carver had invented peanut butter. I can relate to chapter four’s solution because in my school system, Teach For America teachers who were from different areas and ethnic backgrounds were ill equipped to teach African American students while an older teacher would be able to raise test scores and teach students
Is education wasted on low income families? Are housing projects and ghettos nothing except undying monsters for taxpayers to fight? According to society, maybe. According to Principal Clark, no. Not only does he believe in his students, but he forces them to believe in themselves. Joe Clark makes very compelling appeals to the three rhetorical devices, pathos, ethos and, logos. Joe Clark was an excellent principal in all areas, this idea is further proven by the speech he gave his students before their skills test.
We live in a society where we are surrounded by people telling us that school/education and being educated is the only way to succeed. However, the school system is not up to the standards we want it to uphold. There are three issues we discuss the most which are the government, the student, and the teacher. In John Taylor Gatto 's essay “Against School”, we see the inside perspective of the educational system from the view of a teacher. In “I Just Wanna Be Average”, an essay written by Mike Rose, we hear a student 's experience of being in a vocational class in the lower level class in the educational system when he was supposed to be in the higher class. Both Gatto and Rose give their opinions on how the educational system is falling apart. Today the government is only trying to get students to pass, making it hard for teachers to teach what they want. Students are affected everyday by the school system. They sit there - bored - and do not think that the teachers care, making the
Every student has a diverse learning style. I believe that students should learn in a safe, caring, and understanding environment. As professional educators, we should provide this safe and open-minded environment.The ways to ensure this environment is to make sure students are actively involved in their education, to make sure teachers are providing the best materials for students to learn, and to make sure parents and the community are involved in students education.
In many low income communities, there are teachers that are careless and provide their students with poor quality education. These teachers are there just to make sure that they keep receiving their monthly paychecks and act in this way because they believe that low income students do not have the drive, the passion, or the potential to be able to make something of themselves and one day be in a better place than they are now. Anyon reveals that in working class schools student’s “Work is often evaluated not according to whether it is right or wrong but according to whether the children followed the right steps.” (3). This is important because it demonstrates that low income students are being taught in a very basic way. These children are being negatively affected by this because if they are always being taught in this way then they will never be challenged academically, which can play a huge role in their futures. This argument can also be seen in other articles. In the New York Times
Reflecting back on my educational journey thus far, the most meaningful material I have studied was regarding the overall lack of access and barriers to education. Specifically, Dr. Kathy Nakagawa’s Justice Studies course, JUS 365 – Inequality/Diversity in Education, provided a compelling glimpse of the intersectionality of race, class, and gender as contributing factors for both successful and unsatisfactory educational outcomes, at various levels of schooling. To be sure, my personal aspirations to become a community college professor deeply inspire me to explore the process of learning from multiple perspectives. Additionally, as I progressed through this course, I found myself identifying with several of the concepts due to the personal challenges I have faced in my primary and secondary education experiences. Indeed, my parents were teenagers when I was born; I was raised by a single mother and I did not know my biological
It is important to understand that not everyone entering college is ready for the experience. Although colleges and high schools are having conversations on how to address the problem as it relates to high school graduates being unable to test into college level courses, it is merely conversations (Remedial Education: The Skeleton in the Closet of Higher Ed). Each entity continues to play the blame game instead of sharing the accountability, politicians intercede and cause more dissention among them, teachers in school districts are forced to teach to standardized tests, college professors are frustrated with the lack of skills entering freshmen have, yet the reality of it all is there doesn’t seem to be a solution to the problem. Adult basic education is in a category by itself as it is essential for employment and to fight this stubborn illiteracy and poverty filled society. One way to accomplish this is to help low-income, first-generation individuals understand the importance of getting an education. There is a major focus on educating low-income, first-generation individuals, but some instructors cannot comprehend what it really means to come from a disadvantaged background. One of the local superintendents understands this, so each year he requires the district’s instructors to participate in a mandatory activity that exposes teachers to the lives of students they teach. Each year the veteran teachers and new teachers tour the poor neighborhoods from which their students come on the school buses. In addition, they are expected to go door to door in these neighborhoods to hand out flyers reminding the students and their parents of the back to school activities planned for the upcoming year....
The question of how to teach our students has been a major topic in philosophy since anybody can remember; some believe it started with Socrates, Aristotle and Plato. Now it has become a highly questioned issue in our modern society. While there have been many different ways to answer this question we seem to forget sometimes what is important. We seem to forget that it is not how we teach, but what the children will get out the classes and will they be able to take something with them to survive in the real world from these classes.
A research by Owen-Jackson (2016) believes that each child of this world deserves to get the best possibilities of caring , securing, and motivated atmosphere to well grow and develop physically, psychology, socially, and intellectually. As an educator, I believe that a child is as a precious jewel who is a unique individual that has to receive better environment to develop personality, self-esteem, and skills to be a responsible person in the future. My desire as a teacher is to provide an adequate necessary education that is classified as the most significant factor of growth and development. According to my personal philosophy in teaching that is to believe in education to be the best source of providing the necessary fundamental tools
I got up early the morning of my observation. I was nervous about sitting in the classroom for five hours. Twenty-five to thirty little people running around would make anyone a little scared. Thoughts were racing through my mind. Am I picking the right career, will I make a great teacher, and what grade should I teach?
A dream of mine has always been to be the first in my family to go to college and receive a degree. In order to succeed, I knew I had to learn to manage my disability. Even though, it takes me longer to prepare for school I have found methods to help me succeed. I listen to alternative music to block out distracting noises, and organize my work by prioritizing and using color-coded folders for each subject. A week before major exams, I start preparing by studying and mapping out my time, making this typically stressful week more manageable. These strategies, and many others, help me surpass expectations. Finally, I accomplished some of my goals. I received Dean's List honors all four years during high school. In addition to academics, I use my study habits to partake in extracurricular activities. The position as the Editor-in-Chief for my school's yearbook required me to manage my time and manage it we...
The leading country for public education is actually, faking it. False numbers are sent in, students are placed in programs they shouldn't be, or they are just asked to leave. So, how does all this play in? That our education system doesn't work. They want it to (hopefully), but keep going at it the wrong way. Without education there would be no workforce. So the system needs to work so that our economy can continue to better. Although, schools that have more special needs children, not necessarily those with birth defects or mental handicaps, but even children from other countries that are unable to speak english. But, it's not necessarily the children that need to be improved, it's just the reported quota that needs to be improved, no matter how it's done.
During my time as a student I have been able to develop the way I learn and interact with others to a degree that has also helped me to mature into a better person. I have come to believe that this maturity will help me to develop into a better thinker as well, one that has the patience to listen and take consideration of what others have to say. I consider the act of learning a two way avenue that has to be taken seriously. It is one that involves the teacher, and the protégé. It has been, and will continue to be, my absolute goal as a student to become a diligent protégé and acquire all of learning my teachers have set in front of me. The way each of them have helped me to think about how my actions, and the way I choose to study my lessons and develop as a student, has made a tremendous impact on my life. This impact is one that I will carry into the future as I myself advance in my professional studies.
Johnson, J. A., Musial, D., Hall, G. E., & Gollnick, D. (2013). Foundations of American Education.