Method chosen: questionnaires. Introduction: - Define “questionnaire” - Generally preferred by positivists as they generally give qualitative data. - State types of questionnaire (open ended, fixed response). - Define “minority ethnic group pupils” General advantages and disadvantages: Advantages: • They are generally quick and easy to complete. • If coded, answers can be fairly easily collated and summarised, e.g.
Positive relationships enable information to be communicated far more effectively. Working in a school this will benefit pupils when you are dealing with parents or carers as they will be more willing to get involved in the child or young person’s education and care. Building and maintaining positive relationships and effective communication with pupils will help them know and understand what is expected of them and acceptable boundaries. In order to develop positive relationships with children, young people and adults effective communication is vital. To effectively communicate we must: • think consciously (everyone is an individual) • explain (be clear, use appropriate language) • listen actively ( occasional nods and eye contact) • be true to our word (say what you mean, mean what you say) • recall (repeat snippets of what has been said to you) • have empathy (non-bias understanding of others situations) • clarify and question (ask the other party if they understand what you have said ) • body language (your own and reading the other persons) Not putting the above skills into practice will create barriers to effective communication and positive
Positivists believe that questionnaires are very reliable and that is the main positive goal. However, interpretivists reject the view of questionnaires as they claim it isn’t valid as the respondent on has ‘yes and no’ answer questions and they don’t go into depth with the answer. In Item B it says that ‘parents are accustomed to supplying information to the school’ therefore questionnaires would be the best way to conduct this as they can be given out on a regular basis and don’t need a formal meeting making the parents feel intimidated and not giving completely true answers. Because questionnaires collect information from a large number of people, the results stand a better chance of being truly representative. However, some parents might feel that the questions being asked are too personal and might feel like they are being judged by the school, but although questionnaires may ask personal or sensitive questions; parents are generally under no obligation to answer them.
Landon Stewart Mrs. Luker Government A4 10/23/12 Cons of School Uniforms There are many schools in the U.S. that require their students to wear uniforms, and there are more that don't. I believe that school uniforms should not be required for a few reasons. Uniforms take away from a person's individual identity and freedom to express himself or herself. They can be costly to people depending on a family’s financial status. School uniforms can also be a very uncomfortable fashion that students would not take a liking to.
These families do not work a typical 9-5, this does not mean that they are not involved with their children’s school. They do what they can, when they can. Or they may only have one vehicle between two parents, and job schedules conflict. Just because they aren’t at every event, don’t rule them out based on negative assumptions. These assumptions lead to lower academic expectations of these students and an overlook of what these families bring to the classroom and the
Having a mandatory uniform limits teenager’s creativity and their expressive side. Lastly, the uniform can be harmful to schools image because some schools may have nicer uniforms than others causing other schools to envy them and not feel equal and uniforms are all about making everyone equal. Students will most likely be in their uniforms after school hours. If some students are caught up in bad behavior it can make the school look bad and gain a reputation. Also, when students don't agree with the uniform they wear many of them alter
Parents should communicate to manage their child’s academic success. Volunteering and learning at home requires a parent to help the student with homework and other educational activities. Decision making type of involvement is communicating with the student to discuss improvement and student success. Collaborating with the community help influence more families to become involved in their children’s education. All six types of involvement positively impacts educational
Those influential models include parents within the family, TV characters/commercials , friends, and school teachers which provide examples of behavior. By paying close attention to those models, children tend to encode their attitude and develop their behavioral habits . When a child copies a model’s behavior and the consequences are rewarding, it is believed that the child is likely to continue performing that behavior (McLeod, 2011). For this reason, parents with children were selected for this education session as they play a significant role in helping their children to make a positive behavioral change in learning it for themselves
There are two main types of experiments: laboratory and field experiments, both of which have advantages and disadvantages. Sociologists rarely use lab experiments, however, because they are concerned with physical things rather than social issues such as education. As Item A mentions research has found that teachers sometimes label pupils unfairly which can affect pupil’s self-esteem, and as a result, educational results. This process is known as labelling. One practical advantage of using experiments in a school would be that if using a field experiment which has the advantage of being more natural than a lab experiment, the teachers might act naturally towards the pupil as they wouldn’t know what was happening.
Standardized testing has been the reason behind many of the negative effects on students that educational theorist John Holt describes, like a student rarely being able to get through school “with much left of his curiosity, his independence, or his sense of his own dignity, competence, and worth.” For example, in regards to curiosity, testing stifles this by forcing students to only study for the content on tests and not encouraging them to explore and find subjects that they are interested in. Because the content of these types of tests rarely interests students, students may do well on them by memorizing facts, but they do not often truly learn the content. Both by failing to offer subjects that may appeal to students and by not presenting given subjects in a way conducive to learning, schools are harming individuality in favor of needless