Multigrade Teaching Strategies

However, present education attitudes and practices by the policymakers illustrate the move towards educating students according to economic status and also social standing. Teachers continuously hear that the poor students are mostly from violent and chaotic households; therefore, it is only the regimented education curriculums that can ensure their success. On the other hand, the wealthier students are taught by several education approaches which concentrate on developing the whole person. The emphasis on education of poor students is mainly on developing appropriate standards of obedience. Many schools serving poor students in the rural, urban and also suburban areas challenge the illustrated prescriptive teaching approach. The schools engage in quietly providing adequate intellectual, material and technological resources to the high poverty children. One example entails, developing programs that organize transportation for low income students, to the museums, concerts and theatres (Barbe & Swassing,

Deficiency in academic preparation occurs because of poor plans to attend college and an absence of earlier experience of how the college environment works. The students from impoverished backgrounds did not go to high level schools, so they do not have the college knowledge which is needed to succeed in college and the future. In the article “New Student Majority in South and West: Poor Children” by Sarah D. Sparks, the author shares that mostly in the south and southwest states students live under poverty. Students’ academic careers are at a high risk because it is difficult to deal with their problems. More than 50 % of the students live in poverty which is a pretty high rate, there seems to be no place to get away from it. The biggest barrier for students in poverty is after graduating from high school and deciding to move on to college. Most of the students from low socio-economic backgrounds always have a gap year after completing high school. They are not ready for college due to the deficiency in language and quality of education.

Observing the environment of Lala is below average of the socioeconomic status. The individual suffers educational needs, income stability, and the occupation of her grandparents. Due to her grandparent’s education level of grade 11, Lala suffers educational needs in

families and kids which is a disadvantage in this society if one would want to learn and go to

Education does not just take place in schools. Classrooms are places where many forms of discourses come together. Students and teachers with various forms of knowledge and ways of communicating interact together and unfortunately some ways of knowing and communicating hold more value than others. Sometimes researcher should stop looking at the bigger picture; capitalist economies and the true nature of society should become more of a focus in education research. You cannot hope to understand why students from lower socio economic areas do poorly compared to students whose parents are more affluent unless more is done to understand the prior.

These systemic obstacles that create circumstances that hinder the education attainment of the poor can be changed, their limits lessened, by positive actions to elevate living conditions – given the school system promotes and

Maternal mortality, prostitution, and economic empowerment become global struggles due to lack of education and financial ability of both the country itself and individuals living in these countries. Families are following a pattern by neglecting to dedicate time, attention, and money to their children’s education. These people are living in the moment and do not

These circumstances leave children no other option, but to work from an early age to support their families. Therefore, children are forced to take the role of an adult. Such situation deprives them education, and produces more illiterate people in our

Poverty has a large impact on students and their ability to engage in school. From a young age, children are influenced by their family and peers behavior. Basic foundations for school subjects such as vocabulary are often the hardest subjects for children in poverty, with the lack of proper background knowledge from their parents. Children in poverty also develop bad habits such as not eating breakfast which can lead to health issues, and a lack of energy and focus in school. When these children grow up in households full of stress and anxiety the are negatively impacted and tend to develop their own stress which can become so severe that they have lost all hope and optimism. Negative influences from their home life and peers can often impact their growth in school because of their lack of nutrition, small range of vocabulary, and their negative approach to school work.

“These factors include: incidence of poverty, the depth of poverty, the duration of poverty, the timing of poverty (age of child), community characteristics (concentration of poverty and crime in neighborhood, and school characteristics) and the impact poverty has on the child’s social network (parents, relatives and neighbors).” Any one of these factors can contribute to a child not being able to focus in school which can ultimately lead to a child falling behind in their education. With the current trajectory the education system as a whole, not taking into account those disadvantage students that may struggle at school because they have to worry about trying not to struggle at home when the school day is

The proportion of children who are enrolled in primary schools has increased from 49% to 77% in the past decade in sub-Saharan Africa. This increase in enrollment is due mostly to the initiative of the governments from these regions to improve universal primary education. However, much remains to be done because even though enrollment has been made a possibility in a lot of these countries, there are a lot of other variables at play that still prevent children from receiving a quality education. Things such as poverty, cultural traditions, gender violence, and the incidence of early marriage are a major reason for disadvantaged groups, particularly poor girls, not making as much progress in enrolling

Education comes with social benefits as well which can improve the situation of the poor, such as lower fertility and improved health care of children ("Poverty and Education"). "Poor people are often unable to obtain access to an adequate education, and without an adequate education people are often constrained to a life of poverty." - Servaas Van Der Berg. The absolutely poor in developing countries have low education levels. Some may not even have access to primary education or may not have completed their primary education, not realizing that it is important to reduce poverty. Education is often poorly measured, and the impacts do not always show up as statistically significant in cross- country growth regressions (Levine & Renelt, 1992). Africa’s education crisis makes media headlines and analysis by the Brookings Center for Universal Education (CUE) explains why this needs to change. Progress towards universal primary education has come to a halt and learning levels of children who are in school are poor as well. Using a Learning Barometer, CUE estimates that 61 million African children will reach adolescence lacking even the most basic literacy and numeracy skills, this will deprive a whole generation of opportunities to develop and escape poverty ("Poverty, Education, & Opportunity").

Nowadays, with the improvement of the social culture and the transformation of the educational concepts, parents and the society have become more and more concerned with the education of children. However, as future of the country, children’s growth environment will be affected by many reasons like economic condition, race, parents’ attitude and so on. The most important one I think is that socio-economic. Poverty, especially in the extreme, can add to people’s sense of humiliation and powerlessness, particularly where the gap between rich and poor is growing. In this case, children who from the different family condition will have totally different childhoods, even the future.

As a result of poverty and marginalization, more than 72 million children around the world remain unschooled. Sub-Saharan Africa is the most affected area with over 32 million children of primary school age remaining uneducated. Central and Eastern Asia, as well as the Pacific, are also severely affected by this problem with more than 27 million uneducated children. In addition, these regions must also resolve continuing problems of educational poverty (a child in education for less than 4 years) and extreme educational poverty (a child in education for less than 2 years) (Omwami & Keller, 2010).

Individuals should benefit from attending school and not having to pay for attending as it is a personal success in helping to move toward a secondary school/college. In addition, failing academically is associated with negative effects and life outcomes. Not being able to have an occupational career with higher income and losing opportunities of building an own business place is a result of not considering education seriously. Ways to prevent students from failing in their academic year is providing additional support for students, evaluate teacher’s capability and generate time management