Holt states that learning from school teachers takes away one’s individuality and teaches children that if you don’t learn things their way, then you won’t learn it at all. I don’t believe Holt’s views on school systems is correct and I think they help provide a more stable education for children. Holt, a former school teacher and education theorist, believes that homeschooling benefits children more so than going to public schools. His views from this essay go hand-in-hand with many of his other essays. 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.
Harmonium and Nettles Harmonium and Nettles both highlight the theme of memory. As they both are looking back over past memories that are painful, the poems feature the feelings of being helpless in stopping the hurt that was caused. The writer in Harmonium feels remorse for the things he hadn’t said to his father as Armitage states “then mouth in reply some shallow sorry phrase or word too starved of breath to make itself heard”. The writer in Nettles is protective of the recurring threat to his child that he can’t destroy. “rain had called up tall recruits behind the shed,” this quote shows the father cannot destroy them .They differ in the way they felt powerless however as in Nettles the father is feeling powerless because of a physical threat whereas in Harmonium it is an emotional threat of the inevibility of death and unspoken feelings that makes the writer feel powerless.
In Diane Ravitch’s “Stop the Madness” she questions the accountability of teachers and the school system through the NCLB policy for what students actually know. Ravitch was once in favor of NCLB, being a former Assistant Secretary of Education, until she realized that through this program, teachers and students were losing thevalue of education. Ravitch shifts from telling about the problem to a potential solution using rhetorical questions, organization, and anaphora, to analyze how rest scores are being used don't define what students actually know nor do they determine the effectiveness of teachers and schools. The first strategy that Ravitch uses to convey meaning are rhetorical questions. In the 16th paragraph, starting with the fourth sentence, she asks multiple questions in a row.
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.
Additionally, John Holt is also a supporter of the Home Schooling movement. In the first paragraph, the author thinks that the children is smarter, curious, confident and independent before they go to school. He make an example, if there are no teachers to help them to study language, the children will find how it works and set up their own model of grammar of language by trying it out and seeing whether it works. Through this way, they can learn other things good too, include the "concepts" that the school think only they can teach the kids. In the second paragraph, first, the living and learning should be distinguished, there are no connections between the two.
The difference between disequilibrium, and equilibrium and its impact in the classroom is as significant as Piaget suggests. If a student/person feels like they know how to solve a problem (or are at equilibrium), they will not want to learn about it. Although, if they are able to create a disequilibrium, or the inability to solve a problem by receiving constructive feedback and create competition, one will want to learn more about the subject/job and will hopefully retain a lot more information. An example of this can be seen in the classroom or workforce. There are many children in primary school who rely on their parents/peers to tie their shoes for them as they constantly have support in the area and have no motivation to learn themselves.
The idea of collegiality starts with current mentor and peer coaching programs which many districts, now provide for new teachers. Unfortunately the trend of “sharing ideas” tends to drift away with tenured teachers. There has been a new focus on professional learning communities and developing collegiality and teamwork within schools under some new teacher evaluation criteria and outlines. Located under Domain 4: Professional Responsibilities (Danielson 1996, p. 106-119), the topics of “Relationships with Colleagues” and “Service to the Profession”, assess a teacher’s participation with immediate colleagues and other teachers. Currently those educators who do not meet with their colleagues either within their own discipline and/or across disciplines are not tapping into and using a valuable resource at their fingertips.
According to Thomas Sergiovanni "In democratic communities norms count more than rules"(1994, p.120). This made me think about what norms are and how teachers can implement norms and not rules. Kids do not want to follow rules but if they are doing something everyday and are expected to do something everyday then they start to feel a belonging to the class. "When students share the responsibility for developing norms and when their commitment to these norms is expected, they know they belong" (Sergiovanni, 1994, p. 121). Sergiovanni explains in his article ways that educators can get control of their classroom.
From my observations, I found that most teachers knew their classes well, especially how they learnt, and ensured that the materials provided was tailored to suit learners. I did not get the opportunity to teach about the cell during SE1 placement. However through research, observations and carrying out a focus group, I have come to understand the importance of becoming a more reflective practitioner. Looking at “big ideas” within the national curriculum, I now understand how learners begin topics with preconceptions from primary school experiences. Research supports that learners bring certain beliefs and ideas that are greatly founded in the way the think to science lessons (Driver et al.
I always asked myself, if my mother new the type of man he was, why would she let him be the one to discipline us? She left him for good reason, for being abusive to her and I never really understood that why it was him that had to do the disciplining. Throughout time