After reading " And then I Went to School," and "College Pressures", its evident that the word education is viewed differently depending on the "students" background. In the short story " And then I Went to School," the purpose of education to ____ was a lot different then those of the white people. Joseph Suina found that the purpose of education in the white men village was to fit in with them and learn their ways and traditions of life. Although this is not what Joesph wanted he was forced this new education upon him. Joseph believed that his education came for his grandmother, learning how to cook, clean, and take care of his family.
How can a teacher communicate effectively and meaningfully with families from diverse cultures? With the every so rapidly increasing population of immigrant families to Canada reflecting ESL populations in our schools, it is becoming more and more important for teachers find ways to effectively communicate and reach their students as well as immigrant parents. It is imperative that a teacher creates good relations and open communication with parents for the optimal school-home continuation of education. However, Joshi, Eberly and Konzal (2005) acknowledge how difficult it can be building relationships with parents that share similar cultural backgrounds with the teacher, let alone the challenges apparent between parents and teachers who come
This essay will prove that graduating students must be taught only Canadian literature in grade 12 rather than the aspects of American and British literature. There are great writers from all different cultures, despite this, as Canadians we must remain intent on learning the literature of our own country. Out of the various reasons for teaching only Canadian literature in grade 12, there are three main reasons that everybody should understand. The three reasons are; to assist students in becoming more familiar with the country they live in, to promote and establish our own Canadian writers, and to encourage the younger Canadian authors. As a member of the Canadian population, you are practically obligated to understand your own country.
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.
Residential schools or previously called Government Funded Industrial Schools were a type of boarding school for First Nation, Metis and Inuit children. These institutions included classrooms, school grounds and student residences. The original infrastructure of the residential school was enforced with the belief that it was the government’s duty to teach the Indian population and help them adapt to be more functional members of the quickly approaching modern mainstream society. The government, partnered with the Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, United and Presbyterian Churches, took children from their family and educated them in the appropriate mannerisms and culture of the Europeans and the holy religion. Residential schools became federally active including involvement from the government in 1883, beginning with three schools on the prairies and spread through Canada.
As a social worker it is important to recognize this history, and work towards offering preventative measures to break the cycle that has Aboriginal children ending up in care. During my time working in child protection, many Aboriginal parents were angry, and unwilling to work with their social worker. I think that this stems from the history surrounding child protection social workers and Aboriginal children. Parents today have most likely been a part of the social welfare system for years. As a new social worker, I hope to always recognize that Aboriginal parents are scared of what could happen to their families when they are mandated to work with social services.
When it comes time for kids to go to school, parents might always have that thought of what type of educational environment would be better for their kid. Whether they should let their child attend a public school, or would rather them be home schooled. This can always be a tough decision because there can be so many thoughts running through the adults minds. There are plenty of good situations but yet, some bad situations that cross the mind to think about for both options. Although parents would like to keep their kids close to them as much as they could, the best option however, is to always think about what would be best for the child, depending on who they would feel more comfortable around.
School based interventions are extremely vast as social workers are servicing an array of students. There are many restrictions to developing and implementing school based interventions. A student’s success is dependent on multiple factors and as social workers a majority of the job is facilitating between the different factors. For example, when implementing a behavior plan, it must be approved by several adults involved in the student’s life. The teacher needs to be able to apply the behavioral intervention plan while trying to attend to her other students.
There are always reasons for a child to drop out of school, knowing these reasons will help one be able to help the client better. According to Mark Schafer, and the United States Department of Agriculture, “Family, school and community factors affect educational outcomes such as dropout rates” (Schafer, M. 2006). Every high school dropout has a reason, this reason could be a family situation, such as becoming pregnant while still in school, or the neighborhood the person is living in is not a good environment for learning. These and many other factors must be taken into account. When working with the high school dropout, one will want to start by getting a background history on the person.
It indicates an excellence of form. It didn’t only make me laugh, but gave me an opportunity to learn a little bit about the culture of Native Americans. Troubled times in your early education seemed to have an impact on your life throughout both primary and secondary school. I felt terribly bad for you when I found out