My goals in terms of my education are to learn as many new things as possible in order to acquire skills that will help me succeed in anything I choose. Education has always been an important aspect of my life. Ever since I began school, I’ve always made sure to take advantage of everything I would be taught. Growing up I was always told that education should come first before anything else and I firmly believe in since I am fortunate enough to be receiving one. I want to make a difference in the overall picture of education. There aren’t a great deal of Latina women in the STEM area and as a female, I want to change that. A part of my long term educational goal is to become a math major and be a part of STEM. I want to be a part of STEM because not only does this group helps develop essential skills, it helps contribute to the development of society’s needs and wants. As for now some of my short term educational goals that I hope to achieve are organization, speaking skills, time management, and leadership skills. I plan to use my short term goals to get to my long term goals. Being in college I have more freedom as to what classes I want to take which means more of a reason to achieve the short term goals since the workload is much more intense and I need to change how I approach things. My classes are very important to me because if they are not something I like then I will not learn anything. For example, one class I will be taking is General Chemistry. Although
If the purpose of school is to learn, why do we censor educational material? By removing parts of our history, knowledge, or real world experiences, students receive a distorted perception of educational subjects. The fact that society is trying to keep children pure for as long as possible is destroying advancement within society since that information supports not only academic knowledge, but knowledge regarding everyday life as well. Hiding the truth does not stop the tragic and graphic situations that occur everyday. I completely understand the necessity of basic rules regarding general disorder, however I do not think it is essential to prevent critical thinking as children transition into the real world. How are children supposed to be expected to understand independence, and how to think for themselves if their entire lives were filtered and spoon fed to them? Avoidance and censorship within schools promotes ignorance. For example, restrainment of teaching about the history of slavery in America, result in children to grow without understanding the struggle of acceptance that people of color face, or the significance of rallies and marches for black rights in current society. Or the watered down sex education prevents practically any knowledge that would be useful in modern day life. Currently, majority of what is taught in sex education is abstinence. Although beneficial knowledge, it is unrealistic to expect every child to follow that recommendation; especially
The thought of being educated or not being educated properly frequently appears in the minds of students. Move on When Ready students experience this lack of knowledge the most. Being dual-enrolled not only means being enrolled in college and high school at the same time, it means you experience both sides of the education spectrum. One side teaching the bare minimum, the other reflecting on things you wish you would’ve learned already. Often times, not knowing the subject frequently causes struggle learning or comprehending properly. Dual-enrollment students experience the feeling of an abandoned whelp attempting to survive on its own; the only option left to us will be to teach ourselves on how to study, annotate, and develop forms of personal responsibility.
Teachers in the United States are educating the adults of the future, yet the teaching profession is depreciated. Teachers experience immense pressure from the administration to adhere to curriculum guidelines, creating an unfavorable work condition. Professional freedom, or autonomy, in the classroom allows teachers to adjust instructional material to their preference and teaching style. This provides teachers a more supportive environment to fulfill their potential as educators and effectively creating a learning environment. Teachers can help students get the most out of their education and increase their earnings later in life.
Education is extremely important and very basic, it’s so important that there is a likely chance of not being able to live a life in a successful and happy way without it. Education helps to develop a personal opinion of the world, it can also expand many mandatory skills. Obviously, education also gives the knowledge of many things. Knowledge is power, without knowledge, what is the alphabet? What are numbers? What is mathematics? The effect of not knowing any basic knowledge about many subjects has a big impact in daily life. If a person without disabilities can’t do the basic math, calculation, or problem solving, then life for that person isn’t very successful, that person won’t know how to pay tax, buy food, and do daily routines. But on the other hand, the opinions that education gives can lead to massive improvements in life. For instance, independence skills. Independence skills is one of the most important skills to guide to a successful life. For example, According to https://addicted2success.com, it states, “Independence can help increase your self-value and self-esteem, more so if becoming independent is one of your goals. The achievement of financial, emotional, social, career and personal independence gives you a sense of accomplishment that eventually changes how you rate yourself and how others view you. Independence is also a great booster to your self-esteem and personal success.” The quote above states, “Independence is also a great booster to your
Now that we have outlined what Plato’s Pedagogy contains, I shall now proceed to ask myself if my education meets Socrates’s standards. The following information will cover any intentional or random education I received, the discrimination against specific materials in my life, and the role of fear and pain in my learning. Each section will loosely follow the age groups of which Socrates explained in his pedagogy. The age groups will include, 0-5 years, 5-10 years, 10-15 years, and 15 years of age to the present. The following information will also consider what Plato/Socrates would say about my education. Through Plato’s Republic and Pedagogy I have discovered the influence my education has on who I am, and who I am not.
As a child, my most desired dream was to be called Dr. Elsayed. I have always wanted to be a healthcare professional to help people live a happier and healthier life. Even though I was unsure of what specific field I wanted to study until I entered high school. All I was thinking about was the white coat that would have my name on it, and people calling me a doctor. The time I was applying for colleges I was interested in becoming a dentist because of the experience I have worked as a dental assistant for approximately a year. However, I chose Biology as my major to complete my prerequisite courses for dental school. Currently, as a college student, I still want to be in the healthcare professional field, but obtain a bachelor degree in Nutrition and Food Science, which I am in the process of changing majors. My desired outcome for this semester is to pass all my courses to have a good high GPA and get involved in a variety of activities as I did throughout high school.
I find pride and value in all my experiences regarding STEM. Though I have directed my focus more towards technology in my middle and high school years, my story began with mathematics. Growing up in an immigrant family, my parents were not always able to cross the language barrier and help develop my studies in language arts or social studies. Since math deals with numbers and function, it is the one subject without borders. I grew up memorizing the multiplication table at an early age and complaining when my parents quizzed me while going on walks or grocery shopping. Despite my constant whining, I obliged and looking back, I am thankful that my parents pushed me to learn basic math in my formative years. By the time I entered elementary school, math just clicked; whether it be from a natural inclination or from the early exposure, and I grew more confident and interested in my mathematical abilities.
I’ve lived by the common adage that we are a product of our environment, the idea that exposures have the ability to shape our character and outcomes in life. Growing up in a rural environment with resources allocated to support agricultural development and a scarcity of resources to address the public health needs of my community inspired me to pursue higher education. As the country reaped the benefits of the agricultural industry, my community endured the costs from exposure to environmental toxins and pollutants that resulted from the agricultural industry’s use of chemical pesticides and over-irrigation of the land. Although the built environment positioned me to experience unfavorable outcomes, the adage served as a reminder that exposure to other environmental conditions could result in more favorable outcomes. My exposure of choice was education, exposing myself to education broke down environmental barriers and instilled a passion to address public health needs inherent to the environment. Self-education exposed me to the field of Nutrition and the idea that nutrients in food could serve as medication to cure, control and prevent diseases. With newfound knowledge of the field, I was able to disseminate nutrition education information to members of my community. Moreover, I recognized that I could not change environmental conditions and needed to pursue a structured education in the field of Nutrition to make a larger impact on the health of my community. Pursuing
Education is a United States given right and is meant to set every individual who goes through the school system at an equal starting point. The education system’s initial purpose was for it not to matter what a student’s economical, race, or family history was, but rather to allow any student to get a valuable education. Unfortunately, this starting goal is not how the school systems are ran today, rather, a school’s funding is dependant on the surrounding neighborhood. This inequality of neighborhoods and therefore, school funding, is especially prominent in Memphis, TN.
Have you ever felt like your previous education was a piece of cake, well once you reach college it doesn’t seem to fit the script? Growing up from my experience of my past education I have always though the work I was taught was like taking candy from a baby. The way the teachers broke down the lessons to me step by step, made the work seem not to difficult. Well now that I am in college, I have realized some of the ways I was taught in my previous education experience was all wrong. Well basically the ways I was taught by the teachers in my past education, all seems to be a big disaster to me now that I am in college.
Education has always been a cornerstone of American society. However, the current educational system of the US as many issues. First, most public schools hardly teach many important subjects such as personal finance, entrepreneurship, and coding (Gerber). Furthermore, many schools are required to teach students about pointless material such as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Qin Shihuangdi, and Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Second, in subjects such math and science, America lags behind most developed countries due to many teachers teaching a subject based off a particular standardized test such as the End of Course/Grade assessment (Chou). Therefore, the issues of low test scores in comparison to other developed nations and teaching students the wrong material in the American educational system need to be addressed.
What truly makes a person successful? Is it the hard work and dedication that they put into being who they have become? Is it the education that they receive from going to school or did somebody help them get the job that they received. Even though education and expectations are important environment is the most important.
Education is a chance. A chance to be successful in life, with the knowledge, skills, and character, that is offered through education. I believe education is the foundation that will lead into a productive life. Education is the gateway to learn how to utilize one’s thoughts and conceptions and express it through many unique methods. I am interested in education because, I think every student deserves the opportunity to experience everything an education has to offer. In the teaching profession, every day is a new challenge, it is through these trials, we will learn from mistakes and thrive to try different things to assure each child has that fighting chance to succeed.
Education is the most important aspect of the living. It is important for educators and institutions to know what it is that makes students want to pursue higher education. Knowing what motivate students to learn and obtain higher educations can be helpful when dealing with students. Educators and institutions need to find ways to effectively engage students with the support they need in order to produce successful students. What are the motivation and factors that students look at when choosing to go to university and study particular subject? Institutions need to have a good reputation and affordable cost. The reasons and factors which influence the decision for secondary students to learn higher education can differ. Many students make a decision according to what influence them currently instead of future value (Simonsohn, 2010). For example, if the student enjoy social life and there is a party going on the day he/she visit the university, the student may feel like he/she belong there and decide to enroll that university. The following four articles reviews attempt to demonstrate the motivation and factors influence students to enrolling in higher education.
While the school district saw slim gains of 0.55 percentage point in ELA and 1.86 percentage points in math from 2016 to 2017 as measured through SBAC testing, our partner schools for the Full-Service Community Schools grant surpassed the districts gains in the same time period (gain of 4 percentage points in ELA and 2 percentage points in math). Alexandria Avenue Elementary and Virgil Middle experienced gains of 3 and 2 percentage points respectively in ELA from 2016 to 2017; while Lockwood Avenue Elementary and Alexandria Avenue Elementary experienced gains of 9 and 4 percentage points respectively in math from 2016 to 2017.