Diana Grande Response Paper Okagaki & Sternburg’s Ideas Develop, Cognition, & Learning Dr. Templeton 10/22/2012 In “Putting the Distance into Student’s Hands: Practical Intelligence for School” by Lynn Okagaki and Robert J. Sternburg, the two authors discuss a new age idea for teaching in America’s schools, especially public schools. The two of them worked with Howard Gardner on a curriculum the three of them want to implement in junior high and high schools. This curriculum consists of many theories the three of them have come up with, like Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, Sternburg’s triarchic theory, also with sub theories. Okagaki, Gardner, and Sternburg’s theories contribute well to the curriculum the three of them would like to implement and it would help improve learning greatly by teaching students to take control of their own learning, learn tacit knowledge, and improve in studying and test-taking. Okagaki and Sternburg’s ideas discuss something called tacit knowledge.
What role should standardized testing play in Texas' public education system? The methods by which children are educated and academically measured in Texas have evolved over the past few decades, due to federal and state directed education policies. In an effort to establish accountability and improve the nation's competitiveness on a global scale, standardized testing has become a driving component of curricula nationwide. Almost every state, including Texas, governs its public schools under a national policy directive known as the "No Child Left Behind Act" (NCLB). The NCLB requires all states to utilize assessments to determine and report if a school has made adequate yearly progress (AYP) in the proficiency levels of all students.
He points to George W. Bush's “No Child Left Behind Act.” "The military style reading and math drills prompted by President Bush's No Child Left Behind program have pushed out history, music, art and physical education and may in fact be destroying American Schools." (Schrag, 41) I agree with the last argument that Schrag presented. Because I attend Fairfield University, I think it would be contradictory to do otherwise. Fairfield is a curriculum based around a well rounded core. Before you take your major courses, you must complete a core curriculum, covering various subjects so the student is familiarized in the general education of an educated person.
Attitude, Legislation, and Litigation Attitude, Legislation, and Litigation: Changing Peoples Thinking Eldon G Ray Grand Canyon University: SPE 226 Educating the Exceptional Learner 25 August 2013 Attitude, Legislation, and Litigation: Changing Peoples Thinking There are many reasons why the exceptional learner is now in the classroom. Many changes have taken place already and as fast as things are developing many more changes are coming. Educators are facing these changes, they must understand the disabilities, the laws that brought the changes, what are the challenges and how the educator will need to adapt and make changes in the classroom, as well, how did I respond the first time I met with a person with disability and how by knowing somebody with a disability, will I react in the future? Students with disabilities at one time did not exist in times past. In the early twentieth century the government started showing support for the disabled and their families.
These issues are normally dealt with on governor meetings, held at the school. They pass on any changes within the education policy and offer any training to key members of staff. The local government is responsible for staff DBS checks, to ensure the safety for the children. The national government is responsible for developing news ways to improve the quality of services within education. They are also responsible for the education policy, and their role as national government to emend and changes and development within this policy.
This Title was created to keep a constant improvement of the act with the use of research and also keep strict rule on the regulations that the states need to abide by. [32]It requires that the secretary to choose up to ten states for welfare demonstration projects each year. These demonstration projects are to point out what [33]barriers are slowing down the child placement process, the impact that parental substance abuse has on the child placement process, and kinship care. The secretary is then expected to come up with results for these 3 situations in order to progress the Act further. [34]Title III goes over sections 302-308 of the Adoption and Safe Families Act.
Legislation was passed to provide funding through the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative. Legislators have put state laws in place in 45 states since 1998 to combat bullying (High, 2010). Only some of those laws address areas of relational aggression. There are numerous research-based programs developed to target physical aggression. Some of those programs may not be suitable for relational aggression (Ostrov 2009).
In order to accomplish the goals and objectives of this act, states were required to follow strict guidelines in the mandates to implement this policy and meet the requirements in order to receive the authorized funding appropriated by Congress. As an illustration the purpose was to be accomplished by ensuring that high-quality academic assessments, accountability systems, teacher preparation and training, curriculum, and instructional materials are aligned with challenging State academic standards so that students, teachers, parents and administrators can measure progress against common expectations for student academic achievement… authorized appropriations to local educational agencies to improve children’s literacy through school libraries, ensure education of migratory children, set up prevention and inventions programs for at risk children… for example, youth who are neglected and delinquent, set up programs for the preventions of school dropout… to improve schools an academic assessment is achieved through adequate yearly progress (in order) to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards required by the law… (Additionally), Armed forces recruiters may have access to students and students recruiting information under the General
The education and inspections act 2006 gives staff legal rights to discipline children in school. By law schools are required to record the attendance of pupils both morning and after lunchtime
In 1994, Long Beach, California, became the country's first public school district to institute a mandatory uniform policy. The reasons for this new policy were, 1) uniforms will put the students’ emphasis on schoolwork instead of dressing coolly, and 2) the uniform would help to lower school violence. The results of this change were so promising that it led to former president, Bill Clinton’s endorsement of school uniforms in his State of the Union address in 1996. He said: "If it means that the school rooms will be more orderly and more disciplined, and that our young people will learn to evaluate themselves by what they are on the inside, instead of what they're wearing on the outside, then our public schools should be able to require their students to wear uniforms." .