Keystone Assignment Analysis

“The test-takers were college graduates from every state and from countries around the world. Fully two-thirds of the essays I scored would not have passed my freshman composition class, yet I was expected to give a score of 4 (Passing) to such writing and, apparently, the graduate schools of business accepted such students” (Reeves pg.4). Throughout the article, Reeve uses his background in his career to support his opinion. Since he has knowledge through “grading of tests” readers can easily be persuaded to agree with his opinion.

I choose some take away messages from different sections throughout the film. I will use the information from the video and apply it to my everyday tasks in my future classroom. Starting from the beginning of the film with the “Difficult Times to Processing” section it allows me to understand students with learning disabilities have twice as much to process, question and answer so they need more time. The “Risk Taking” section taught me how students with learning disabilities like reassurance and do not like surprises. If I have a student with a

In his speech, pathos is the tool that Robinson was using to persuaded his audience about the education system need to be change. Robinson (2010) claimed that one of the major reasons education has been changing is because of the economic issues. Robinson (2010) stated that most of the developed and developing countries are out looking for a better way to educate their children to comfortably engage in the current economic system. As people can see that Robinson was using successfully the tool of pathos in his speech; because education is one of the most important issue that people always concern for their children. Agreeably, it is quite a reasonable fact since no one can anticipate the turn of the economy in the coming days or weeks. The second reason that Robinson gave for the changes taking place in education is for cultural reasons. Robinson (2010) explained that people need to know their origins and backgrounds and figure out a way that they can teach their children to have the sense of cultural identity and pass that to the coming generations. The only challenge that can be said and society would agree with Robinson, is that people are trying to do what they did in the past. As it has been in the

The video resonates with me as a first generation college graduate. It puts a smile on my face knowing that someone was willing to put their foot down on granting everyone the opportunity to gaining an education. I always tell myself and others that an education is the best gift someone could ever give themselves. That being said, I am pleased to see that Justin Morrill was able to give that gift to Americans across the globe. 125 years later, I am thrilled to see that Land grant universities are still in effect and doing what they can to provide access and enhance opportunities for everyone watching a higher education. I can relate to this video on a personal level considering I was a first generation college graduate. Knowing that there are other people who wanted to attend college as bad as myself makes me feel like we can all make a difference in this world of higher education. I am grateful to be where I am, gaining a higher education as a graduate student and in return I am thankful that everyone is given that same

This video begins with me having just given the class time to create a pie chart that reinforces the types of jobs women were filling throughout the Progressive Era. Throughout this time I should have been walking the classroom in order to gage how far along students were in the assignment and to help keep students on task. Doing this would have in abled me to get the focus of the class quicker thus helping to eliminate several classroom management problems. During the section about reforms, my goal was to help the student remember a long list of information by linking it to things the children had proven strong on which previously. The main point of this lesson did cover suffrage and once again I attempted to link previously learned information

The message in this video is that learning how to help people who are deaf in ways that most wouldn't think of, can make a major impact on their life. This video opened my eyes, I feel like once I really think that I understand what it could be like to be deaf I learn something that never would have crossed my mind. I have never grown up knowing someone who is deaf or seen people use sign language. So this is something completely new to me, because of this I think it's easy for me to forget the little things and assume what I shouldn't.

In response, Lewis decided, “I’m not going to let the state slap them in the face and say they’re failures”(Aviv). Lewis decided to tamper with the test so the progress he made with his students would not undermined by the shutdown of the school as whole. Here, Lewis attempts to justify his tampering with test materials. He refuses to have his students be told they are failures, and thus breaks testing protocol in order to protect their self-esteem. His actions, though wildly unethically, bring to our attention to the grave and unethical extent in which our public education system uses test scores as a measure of success. Lewis’ radical actions serve as a response to an upsetting educational reality where test scores reign above all else. There are no exceptions made to address the cyclical patterns of poverty and oppression, which causes students to perform poorly in the first place. When the results of a multiple choice test are used as grounds of school closure, it is clear that, above all else--above unquantifiable talents in arts, and above the preservation of student validation--test-scores are what the public school system uses to brand a school as success or

The video was interesting because it talked about the technology, economics, political the world in innovation and education. There are a lot of other interesting points such as about how the new technology had change the way we communicate with each other around the world. Moreover, many people now are using new technologies such as Facebook, twitter, Instagram to communicate with each other. . For the most part I think the main point of the video is that Americans should be aware of the changes that will happen so that we can see the importance of working hard and continuing to learn and learn how to compete in the globally flat world. Lastly, I believe the world has become more flat so quickly that no really knows how to

In this news article it gives information about Obama’s speech about how testing is taking too much time away from teaching. The main part of the article is that Obama "plans to limit standardized testing to no more than 2% of class time." This means teachers will have a lot more time to teach what needs to be taught over that one year. The teachers feel that this would put a lot of pressure on their lessons, and that their teaching mechanisms would have to be perfect. On the other hand, “When parents complain, rightfully so, about over-testing, what they are almost certainly responding to is not the tests themselves, which take up a vanishingly small amount of class time, but the effects of test-and-prep culture, which has fundamentally changed

This video was very educational for me because I did not know about the numerous amount of people in poverty in Central Appalachia. I found it surprising when they stated this fact in the beginning of the video, “Isolated pockets in Central Appalachia have three times the national poverty rate, an epidemic of prescription drug abuse, the shortest life span in the nation, toothlessness, cancer and chronic depression” (abc news, 2009). A lot of the aspects surprised me from this video because even though I do know that is the living conditions and atmospheres of people living in poverty, it is still surprising to see it on video and hear what the children who are growing up in that area are like and their outlook on things. This video connects to our course because the two families in the video were living off the welfare system and food stamps. It also relates to this course because it educates us on poverty and how the systems/policies we do have in place to help these types of families have faults in them and may not actually be helping

How is this article/video related to the topics we've been talking about during our classes?

I believe that this video uses many of the principles described by Danielson’s framework, particularly component 2b that focuses on creating a learning environment in which students can express themselves freely and component 2c that deals primarily with the procedures a teacher must explain to his students before starting an activity in order for the class to go on as planned. However, once these two components are put in practice, as

Being critical thinkers and well informed is part of what we do as counseling professionals. Looking at cognitive distortions and actively trying to stop yourself from falling into this pattern is important. I think this video is a good reminder of being critical thinkers and not always believing everything you may hear without doing your own research. I like that he called this bias the mother of all cognitive bias because it does happen quite a lot in everyday life. This video also touched on a lot of great

After further analyzation, I found that Kal’s most significant claims were about the “difficulty students face during standardized testing” but also about the way that “modern-day school systems are working to ensure the passing of their students in standardized testing while not preparing their students for higher-level tests such as college entrance and college-level exams.” (Rhetorical Analysis, Gabriela Brooks).

This type of program in school would be hard to place into school as it should be. I believe this to be true because a lot of public education receives state funding and this is not an overly important area to raise testing scores or make more job fields. So for that reason I think the funding may not be well received. This is an area that makes people better as individuals and thus can enhance the work they do but does not necessarily imply because you are a really nice person you will become a really good doctor or whatever job is of interest. I think this area is important to develop overall happier people and is very important for students to develop stronger foundations and better lives. This wouldn’t help people become millionaires but instead find the things that were of greater value; priceless things. The transition stage would go much better for students with the ability to take more responsibility and know what they like and do not like.