He soon realizes that his diverse group of poor students is embroiled in a careless and aggressive attitude toward any authority figure. Without the positive support of family members and low academic expectations from school administrators and teachers, Mr. Clark tries to teach rules and high social and academic expectations. One of the rules is that the class is a family and no one is quitting on each other as long as they have respect for each other. He tries to show them that learning can be fun when they cooperate with each other. As the students read books and did their homework, they began to recognize the value of school.
Group Grading While volunteering in my son’s kindergarten class I have come to realize that education is one area that would not benefit from group grading system. Grading students as a group allows some students to advance based on the work of others, and individual grading makes each student responsible for their own future. Although some people may benefit from a group grading system, an individual grading system is a much better way to judge a student’s level of knowledge, makes them accountable for their own work, and keeps teachers informed of what each student is learning. One of the many ways grading students as a group is less efficient and seemingly harmful is the fact that all students do not have the same level of knowledge. Some academics come naturally to students and if they are outnumbered by those that don’t comprehend the lesson, then they may receive a poor grade.
His hypothetical student flunks himself out of this college and in the end he comes back to it with the need for knowledge, not a grade. His class didn’t agree with this idea although the “A” and “B” students turned in work along with the “C” students. By the end of the semester all of the students had joined together and most “A” students agreed with the system, “B” and “C” students were neutral. Of course all F students opposed the system. One of Phaedrus’s students explains “Of course you can’t eliminate the degree and grading system.
Their religious values, controlling use of technologies, sustaining gender roles and family, education, work life, and resistance to cultural change remain as their fundamental purpose in the way they have chosen to live their every day lives. Education within the Amish world is extremely different then American main stream. They are taught the necessary subjects they need for living in small private schools and the Amish believe that anything past an eighth grade education isn't necessary because furthering ones education past that would promote superiority which is not allowed in the Amish community. The things that you don’t know, they believe that you will learn everything else through working. When Amish children turn 16, the rules change.
Single Sex Schools Compared to Coeducational Schools While parents are sending their children off to school, no matter what grade they are in wither it be elementary, junior high, or high school, they expect that their children will receive the best education they can get. They should be acted imposing questions, encouraged to participate in class, and should also be given as much help as needed to succeed by the teacher. However, this is most commonly not the case. Gender bias is not a noisy problem so parents and the children themselves are unaware of what is really going on in the classroom. Although boys and girls are taught together, should classrooms be separate due to the lack of female education compared to males?
Your script is short and Cleary, very straight forward and easy to understand the point you’re trying to pass on to the reader. I would like to agree with you on when you said “Our educational system misleads the youth of today” This point is very well explained and very true. School is the main reason people don’t succeed in life because it teaches you the things which you won’t use and don’t need in the outside world. My goal in life is to be an engineer but school not only discourages you but also forces you to take subject which are not related to engineering for instinct grade 7-9 you are suppose to take biology. This might be said to be an advantage that it increases your knowledge but that not true, what I really think is that it gets you confused, lost and most likely finding yourself on the wrong dream at the end of it all.”Learning should be a more active process “This quote backs up the previous quote because for example engineering is mostly to do with practical work, field work but instead you waste 15 years of your life in a room doing things which are unrelated to your goal instead of being out exploring and learning more about engineering and preparing for the real thing.”What, after all, is the
11). For some students, learning and understanding are not their goal of education. They come to class just to get a certificate. This thinking affects students’ behaviour because they only need to finish the assignment or to get the grade. Crawford Kilian writes in her article “Plagiarism for beginners” about this attitude of students: You are in school only to get a non academic job.
In True Learning, an excerpt from Holt’s The Underachieving Schools book, he is consistent with his belief that public schools often teach kids how to be lazy and how they will only remember the information that interests them, and nothing else. According to the reading, the public school systems take away one’s true ability to learn and that it is best to learn the ways of life by experience, not from a classroom. “Education is something a person gets for himself, not that which someone else gives or does to him” (True Learning). Although Holt make’s valid points about the differences in which children learn, he has no actual facts or
Regardless of the outcome, Weisenfeld becomes disgruntled and exposes how students attempt to manipulate and take advantage of teachers by asking, demanding, and using stories of woe in order to convince teachers to issue higher grades. If a student fails, should he or she not be able to accept the grades they are given, rather than fight for a grade that did not reflect their work? Instinctively students should know what grade he or she will receive at the end of the course. Most teachers and professors offer students several methods of reviewing how well they are currently doing in class. A student should never act dumbfounded by how poorly their final grades turned out to be considering the amount of information provided by the instructor in order to help aid the student in time of need.
Todd’s parents think that he should become a lawyer and they do not give him a lot of attentions as they send him the same desk set each year. Their new English teacher, Mr. Keating or “The Captain”, is different from the rest and some of the students find him mad. In their first class, he brings them to see pictures of some of the former students at the school. Through poems he tells them to seize the day, Carpe Diem, a term which he thinks the students should live by. Mr. Keating’s way of teaching brings out the uniqueness of the pupils, but the other teachers, bound by traditions and discipline, do not like his way of teaching.