Rewarding In Public Education

The state budget cuts have also taken a toll to both teachers and parents’ pocketbooks. According to (Kloberdanz-Modesto, 2011) “As parents have quickly learned from this year’s long donation list and increased frequency of car washes and bake sales, it really may take a village to run the local school.” I have experienced firsthand for the past five years how much the donation lists have increased. From only having to purchase school supplies for my son, I now also purchase supplies for the classroom just to ensure my child has all the tools he would need in order to get his education. When my son first started school, I remember his school supply list requested only for a couple of pencils, erasers, and color pencils. Now his list has contains his personal school supplies and donations of hand sanitizer, paper towels, computer paper, lined paper, packs of pencils, packs of erasers, white board markers, and the list goes on. I honestly do not mind, but what about the other parents who cannot afford it? Just this previous year I got close with a parent whose child was also in my son’s class. I remember her asking if I would mind for her to purchase the “not so expensive items” from the list because she was tight on funds. I could see in her facial expression that she was embarrassed to ask the question, but without adequate financing what are we to do as parents to ensure our children receive the tools they need for their education? We dig into

The majority of the school’s curriculum budget lies with the district curriculum director. After the committee has decided on a preferred curriculum the district is left in charge of purchasing the needed textbooks and materials for the program. This usually results in a classroom set of materials for each teacher, but there is not adequate funding to provide individual supplies. Wes is given a small budget to supply his teachers with any small curriculum needs they may have, but it is not a large amount. Although curriculum is a priority budgets are very tight and the schools often are left to do the best they can with the materials they

Specific Praise. Specific praise includes verbal or written statements to a student that recognize a desired or correct behavior. Praise can function as a tool for instruction and for increasing social and academic behaviors. To be effective, the student must view the attention provided through praise as pleasurable or motivational (Curran, 2017). Specific praise promoted more on‐task behavior than positive praise and significantly increased academic self‐concept (Bizo, 2004). Offering specific praise will help Sam because it sends a message that the teacher is aware of the effort he is putting into staying on task. As time goes on, Sam will desire the teacher’s positive statements. He understands that the statements are the result of him remaining on task and reaching his six-week goal. Sam will also develop an understanding of how to meet the teacher’s expectation. In the end, Sam will mature and advance in his academics. As he matures, the need for constant specific praise will become unnecessary. The added benefit of specific praise is to the teacher. The high levels of stress and emotional exhaustion while attempting to teach in the classroom with Sam will diminish as he progresses.

Getting paid for good grades has changed many people's lives and also changed their grades and knowledge. Wouldn't you want money for grades change your life too? Kids should get paid for grades to help the people who can't afford a simple,nice meal. Also, to keep their grades up and act like school is their job, because basically, it is. To begin with, many families need the money to survive and thrive.

“Most teachers can tell you that they spend a good amount of money every year on supplies. Sometimes it is for individual students, sometimes for class use. I am not talking about iPod's and such, I am talking about paper, staplers, glue and tape. I have already spent over $200.” (S. Mattiza,2006)   Due to me being a high school student, I have to totally agree with the previous statement that was made. I have been in Desoto Independent School District since I was in the sixth grade. At one point of time,the school was not providing my teachers with copy paper so, we as students had to bring in copy paper for extra credit. Things like this do not just happen in Desoto Independent School District, I also attended a couple of schools in Dallas ISD. I remember us not being able to take home books for extra study time because the State Board of Education only provided a class set of books for each class. Sometimes we even had to share books because the older the books got ,the worse the condition of the books were. Also, some classes that required books did not have them because they were not provided for students. This is when I started to realize how corrupt the Texas State Board of Education actually was ,because they are responsible for the overseeing of the permanent school fund. “The Texas Permanent School Fund (PSF) was created with a

Many teachers teach in low-income areas where the schools don’t have much funding so they will go out and spend their own money to make sure that their students have all of the tools and supplies needed for an effective learning environment. In these areas teachers often have to provide most of the supplies such as book bags, pencils, paper, cleaning supplies for the classroom, manipulatives and other things that may be needed to maximize their learning experience. There are even times where the teacher will go out and buy the kids lunch, a kid may need a coat or something of that nature and the teacher will go out of their way to make sure that they have everything that they need. Even with putting these things on a supply list some parents just don’t have it to be able to provide their children with the supplies that they need for school so often times when a child gets a teacher that’s willing to go out of their way and use their own money it’s really appreciated. Which runs into the next point that a public school teacher’s role is not only important to the academic success but the overall development of the students.

I think that most of the educators face the challenge of the budget. Just like the teachers in The Manhattan Free School located in East Harlem and Mrs. Cortes struggle with the budget at time of designing an effective learning environment for their classroom (Dominus, 2010). Mrs. Cortes begins to discard many of her own ideas when she has a design plan because she doesn't know if she will reach the designated budget. Sometimes she needs to buy furniture and teaching materials, but she does not have enough resources in order to have her initial classroom design prepared. Another challenge she encounters is the school’s infrastructure. Mrs. Cortes needs to have a classroom designated for children with different abilities to be able to distinguish

Recently, in the current year, some public schools in Pennsylvania grappled with a tight state budget. The consequences were really disappointing and discouraging. This insufficient budget had a great impact in some schools, especially schools with a high level of poverty. Poor schools are in jeopardy of facing various challenges like cutting off programs and taking out loans. For example, a nonprofit organization which is working on an afterschool program at McKinley Elementary School, in Philadelphia, stopped its activities because the staff needed more funds to get school supplies. Over the years, programs like this one, run by a nonprofit organization, have provided students with educational activities in different areas as science, engineering, technology, mathematics, and homework guidance to 501 school districts. Lack of funding also affects the atmosphere and facility in which students learn (Leach).

If my school received a gift of $5,000 dollars I think the best way for the school to spend the money is to apply that to our Career Technical Education classes. It would give out school a better opportunity and developing student for the work force right out of highschool. Suppling those classes with certains supplies to help improve their curriculum, would be a great investment for the teachers and the students to make their job and learning environment easier. Within Hunter Huss High School most of the funding go to sports or renovations. With supplying supplies and learning materials it will help enhance the learning environment.

Ms. Murphy’s paid work consists of teaching young children at a local junior high school. Her daily routine involved planning lessons and teaching the lessons. “I do the best I can to have students meet essential outcomes” (Murphy). Ms. Murphy is a very dedicated educator, and is always willing to help children before and after school, assisting them in understanding the course material. Ms. Murphy strives to promote a welcoming classroom and a safe learning environment so that children are comfortable in asking questions, enabling them to expand their minds. Ms. Murphy also attends meetings with her peers in-regards to learning new strategies, knowing children have different learning styles. After Ms. Murphy’s long day of teaching, she also donates her time to chaperone daily school actives, and special monthly actives. Ms. Murphy’s paid work is from 8:30am-3:30pm, followed by unpaid work, for school which is 3:30pm-5:00pm. When this part of her day is complete, she continues to work at home correcting school work and she maintains her house work

Motivating students with money has reached Washington DC area from their effort. The author thinks maybe it's not so bad getting paid for good grades. He thinks it doesn't hurt to try new things. He stated about his daughter getting paid for good grades and she started doing better. But , that's not the only thing they want to do with the money of portraying students to do better. They also want to use it to train teachers and give students more time to learn. I intend to also use this source to help formulate my arguments about if students should be paid for good

Go to your local school supplies store and buy some needed materials such as a pencil pouch, one divider for each of your class, some divider tabs, loose leaf paper and even a new binder if yours is broken.

With the NCLB focus on accountability being a driving motivation for teaching to the test it is also important to see if the penalties and incentive systems that use these results are effective at achieving the desired outcome. A comprehensive study published by the National Research Council found that the effect of test based incentive programs on achievement to be negligible and having no measurable impact for many programs. The report concludes that the educational system has yet to learn how to implement incentive programs that consistently yield achievement improvements and better education. In contrast, the study found the implementation of high school exit exams translated to lower graduation rates without any improvement in achievement

In today’s economic environment even the wealthiest states and districts are having to cut funding for education, while districts which were already teetering on the edge are now in an even worse position. In some schools children have to face not having enough books, paper for copies, severe overcrowding,

School supplies are the basic necessity of any student who is trying to achieve academic success in the classroom. Parents with students of all ages are experiencing an increased demand of school supplies putting a strain on families to provide the necessary funding, increasingly so for low income homes. Teachers and organizations try to help families by providing supplies and backpacks, but parents are still left to pick up the cost of more expensive items like calculators.For students to assure success and achieve a bright future it is imperative that they be adequately supplied throughout their years of learning.