The Existential Quest For American Schools

My learning style remains to be a tactile-kinesthetic learner. I’ve taken numerous learning style tests before and I always have the same results. This implies that I learn best when physically doing a project or activity. It does not mean that if I write items down I will not remember them, I will. My photographic memory is not off, but, it would stick better if I did projects hands-on. It helps to visualize the points I have read or are hearing about to get a better understanding of its background. Therefore, I enjoy creating ideas that will help learn by making displays as well as posters. I even play games to assist myself. While reading or listening to an instructor, I often shuffle my feet around or click my writing utensil. This helps

After taking the learning styles assessment it was found that I am a visual learner most of all followed by tactile and auditory. This meaning that I like to see what I am learning, I am able to understand things and later recall what I have seen. I honestly have to say that I do not agree with these results; I say that because after reading and just knowing how I am, I believe my best type of learning is through tactile, I have been this way since elementary school. When you are a tactile person you like to learn and pick up the information best through touching and doing things, you are very hands-on. Versus someone who is a visual learner just needs to see it or read it. Some of the characteristics a tactile person has is completely me; such as I am always doing something, I like to be hands on, when I talk I move my hands sort of like I am trying to act out what I am saying, I always have my legs going or am swaying side to side, like flashcards to study with, and am always chewing gum.

In the learning styles test, it resulted that I am a visual learner. I believe that this is true because I would rather to see a demonstration of what I am supposed to do so I can be able to do it by myself later on. It is effective for me when I am studying because I can remember what I saw as opposed to what I heard. Also, I get distracted easily therefore if a class session tends to be long and only involves discussions and talking, I tend to space out a lot. The results says that visual learners should always be sure to look at the study materials and make use of flash cards, which I tend to do all the time. In the value assessment section, I did the Rokeach Value Survey and this was a great one. It helped to prioritize terminal and instrumental

Fleming (2005) stated that people can be grouped into four styles of learning: (Gravells, 2012), Visual, Aural, Read / Write and Kinaesthetic (VARK), with Honey and Mumford (1992) suggesting that learners are a...

In chapter 5, Reforming America’s Schools, I learned many things that affect me as an educator. An important fact that interests me was that there are four goals that schools should follow. The first one is academic, including a broad array of knowledge and intellectual skills. The second one is vocational, aimed at readiness for the world of work and economic responsibilities. The third one is social and civic, including skills and behavior for participating in a complex democratic society. The fourth one is personal, including the development of individual talent and self-expression. This will affect me as an educator so that I can follow and do my best to complete these goals. Now I am aware of what should be done in a classroom.

After completing the assessment, the inventory concludes that my learning style is predominantly feeling and concrete experiences. For concrete experience, my score of 43 reveals my passion to learn information that I believe is relevant for myself. Subsequently, scoring 34 for active experimentation indicates my preference for applying and testing ideas to understand a concept. Additionally, scoring 25 for reflective observation reveals how I learn concepts through observing others complete a task. Scoring 18 for abstract conceptualization indicates how my learning style does not depend on facts and figure. With all of these learning styles, my graph illustrates strong areas in mode 4 and 1, however, it is immensely low in mode 2 and 1. Overall, my results showcase that I belong in mode 4 learning. The learning style inventory is accurate as it reveals that my strongest learning style is concrete experience. This

Although many Americans attest to the validity of a sound American education, the darkest secrets of this glorified giant have yet to be revealed to the public to expose it as the greatest enemy of the rising youth in contemporary culture. Beginning with the rise of the Common Core Initiative as well as the No Child Left Behind Act; youth has been tossed into an industrialized education where the government has top priority in reformation of learning techniques while schools, who shape the students themselves, have the lowest priority. This is all possible due to the rising number of teachers heeding the “Initiative,” using invalid strategies for instruction—homework becoming the dominant source for reinforcement of fundamental concepts. The habits formed by students in high school indubitably carry over to post-secondary education; as a result, the recent graduates are unprepared for what awaits them in the next steps of rigorous education. Public American Education was founded upon fine values; however, the end results don’t justify the means of education as more and more youth are thrusted from the “Race to the Top” into a competitive “Race to Nowhere,” ill-equipped to face the real problems of the world; thus, the public education system is inadequate to bring up the future leaders of this nation.

Based on my personal inventory evaluation check list I have a combination of learning styles. I am a visual and kinesthetic learner. I definitely learn best when I am taught new information with some type of picture or visual. Also, having the hands on experience I feel helps me to retain information better. I tend to watch a lot of educational videos online because I feel it helps me to process the information and prepare for exams better. During exams I try visualize the

After taking the learning styles and study strategies quiz, I received the results of 50% tactile, 25% Auditory, and 25% visual learner. I would strongly agree with these results because I am a

Kinesthetic learners are the type of learners that are into hands on activities and learn best while moving and doing things while being taught. Many people all have different types of learning styles and I can say as a kinesthetic learner it can sometimes be difficult or rewarding to know the way you learn. When I took four different learning tests I found out that I am the type of learner that can learn in four different ways, and in all honesty I was quite surprised, so I had to do some research on the type of learning and find the one that fits me best. I then read through many different things and found out that I have similarities to all of the four types of learning so I had to look through a bunch

In this chapter I discovered many new things about myself, it has been very benifical to have taken the tests in this chapter and learn how to better study and learn. I thourougly loved this chapter because of the things I have discovered and learned. This chapter was very helpful and relevant for every day life and practical. In the first test, I learned that I am a visual and interpersonal learner. I plan to use this information to the fullest by studying taking notes and using colored pencils and highlighters. Utilizing charts, graphs and timelines is also a great resource. Vizulaization is key in this learning style. But also, to study in groups and discuss this information with people. It is highly

To understand how to solve a problem, we must first understand what we are trying to fix. For example, can a carpenter without any medical experience repair a heart valve? Of course not, he or she must first obtain the proper education necessary to perform such a complex operation. The same can be said about the American education system.

Very good trailer on the American education that is failing our students; however, I find it absolutely unacceptable for someone to say that students are getting stupider. First of all, I do not believe that a single student is stupid; however, I do believe that some students learn at a different pace than others. I believe that teachers and parents have the responsibility to motivate students to learn. Moreover, it is true that American education is failing our students in a sense because I believe that education is not given the importance it deserves. I recently bought a decorative piece of wood that has a quote on it saying, “Teachers who love teaching, teach children to love learning” This is basically my philosophy of education and my

The source of the American school system’s failure has much to do with the fact that it is simply outdated. It was set up in the late 1800s and early 1900s in order to meet the rampant needs of America’s newly industrialized economy. Public schooling supplied factories with a skilled labor force, and provided basic literacy to the masses, and it was the education that the vast majority of the population received. The overall implementation of our current school system credits itself to educational reformer Horace Mann, known as the father of American public schooling. Horace Mann examined a broad range of various educational models before eventually putting into effect the Prussian model. Designed by Frederick the Great, this model's aim was to create a system designed to exercise

While various people consider the current American school system to be a failure; there are others who maintain belief in its effectiveness. Their argument is built on the idea that schools are not supposed to guarantee success for every student. This expectation of schools to have all or nothing as a measure of success is rooted in the 2001 no child left behind act--a law that attempts to keep everyone on equal ground by focusing on those falling behind in school. “NCLB pointed to 2014 as the deadline for 100 percent proficiency. If schools, districts and states can 't meet that deadline, well, they have failed. Doesn 't matter that people are working hard to draft new policies and legislation, and devising new and improved means of integrating technology into curricula, or that greater instructional rigor than ever before is being demanded of our teachers” (Berlin). No matter how much the present structure accomplishes; it will never be able to reach the unrealistic goal of achievement.