The Importance Of Education In Education

Ever since I can remember I’ve never been the best test taker. The subject I’ve struggled the most in for all of my life has been math. In junior high, especially seventh grade I didn’t have the greatest teacher in the world. That was definitely the year I had the most trouble, so when high school came around and our test scores were the deciding factor on whether we graduate or not I knew I had a lot of work to do.

According to the Census Bureau, PreK-12 teachers represent the largest occupational group in the nation, and the profession is becoming even larger. In recent years, the hiring of teachers has far outpaced student enrollment; from 1987-2008, total K-12 student enrollment in U.S. schools including public, private and charter schools combined — increased 19 percent. By comparison, the teaching force rose by 48 percent over that same period. Since 1950, America’s public schools in particular have seen a 96-percent increase in students that has been accompanied by a 252-percent rise in teaching staff.

Throughout the last 50 decades or so, the world has advanced beyond our imaginations. With new technology being created every day, our minds never cease to disappoint us. However, although we have advanced in our industry, the school system in many developed countries have stayed static. The education systems we currently have were built with the intention of being useful during the industrial age. For a few countries, that stretches as far back as the 18th century. Yes, there have been small alterations made throughout the years but the principal idea of our education system has not changed for a mere 200 years. So, what is that goal exactly? To produce future factory workers.

militants or failed to properly prosecute them, and this needs to change,” (Sheppard). After the devastating attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16, 2014, which killed 135 children, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced a 20-point National Action Plan to combat terrorism, but none of the 20 points in the act pertained to students or education (Sheppard). The Pakistani government continues to fail its female citizens by not protecting them and their right to education.

Throughout my educational years, I have always had a competitive mindset due to soccer which I believe has played a role in my struggles with literacy. I always had to be the first person in my class to finish my assignments. Whether it was a test, a quiz, or just a daily assignment, I was always the first to finish. By doing this, it caused me to rush through my assignments and not give the time and effort needed to do it right or even figure out if I really liked a book or story. This was most prevalent in my english classes. English was never my strongest subject. I found that I had not been particularly passionate about reading or writing, so the papers I produced were never at their full potential. I would rush through those assignments even faster, making sure I would not have to endure the pain of reading and writing for any longer time than I had to. I would much rather have been outside playing soccer with my teammates.

Classrooms today are diverse and multicultural, and children bring different forms of Englishes into the classroom, such as Spanglish, Chinglish, or Singlish (Crystal, 2013). Therefore, many students are bilingual, whereby they speak their birth language at home and Standard English at school (Ewing, Callow & Rushton, 2016). Most often, aboriginal children from remote communities learn Aboriginal English at home and have a range of experiences based on cultural and family believes (Loanne & Muir, 2017). Furthermore, bi-directional relationships and past experiences such as culture, family, geographic or socio-economic status (SES) all influence students' learning and development (Ewing, 2013; Gardner, 2017d; O'Donnell et al., 2016). Therefore, teachers need to use a two-way learning approach in the classroom to link all students' cultural heritage and home language to literacy. Equally, curriculum needs to be culturally cohesive to help bridge the learning gap amongst the students (Ewing, 2013; Thomson, 2002). Furthermore, the classroom Discourse needs to make students feel they belong, which helps build students' self-confidence, self-efficiency, and self-identity (Green, 2006; Malaguzzi, 1993). Teachers must ensure language used, class tasks and textual resources are relevant and diverse to meet the diverse range of learners in the class. For example, teachers introducing a wide variety of texts, magazines, images with a variety of dialects and sociolects help make

I am a valuable person, I have dignity and worth, and what I do makes a difference. These words are regularly repeated by teachers and students alike at Assumption High School, a private all-girls college preparatory school in Louisville, Kentucky that illustrates an ideal environment for the growth of young women. Students are undoubtedly empowered through their education in ways that transcend academics. Messages boosting confidence and self-worth are woven throughout the curriculum and programming. The primary focus of the education of adolescents should be about more than just achievement; it can potentially play a powerful role in mental and social development. Therefore, all-female schools that emphasize the development of young girls are a powerful option to consider in closing the gender achievement gap.

In the opening of The Great Debaters Dr. James Farmer, declares “The most important job in America is the education of our young people”. Those teaching and being taught have accepted the responsibility of molding America’s tomorrow. We are stepping into ‘the hot spot’ as both the teacher and the taught, learning and giving lessons based more on character formation than fact memorization. You, I, personally are the teacher, life and its lessons, are the teacher. We are all the taught, but often, our education is invested into those who will be the future. We are teaching our young people, and allowing them to pursue otherwise unprecedented opportunities. To teach, and to be taught, it strengthens the mind, a tool that can never be taken away.

As educators, how we teach is equally as important as what we teach. The validity of this understanding has been represented over the past three weeks of the course through the progression of the text and the corresponding presentations, discussions and tasks. Ainsworth explains that using the priority standards helps us to “identify the teachable concepts (what students need to know) and the assessible skills (what students need to be able to do)” (Ainsworth, 2015, p. 102) so the content of a unit is rigorous and scaffolds learning to foster skill development. Through education students don’t just develop skills, or just the ability to learn, but the confidence that allows them to apply skills for mastery and comprehension.

As an institution, the school possesses a unique influence over a given community by way of their youngest and most malleable members. From a sociological standpoint, the school serves two purposes education, which consists of the content knowledge and skills such as reading and writing, and socialization the focus of the field. The socialization process, also referred to as schooling covers an array of things that lie just below the surface of the curriculum. The notion that schools have ulterior motives regarding what students are taught and how they’re socialized is not necessarily new to the public, especially in the United States. deMarrais and LeCompte in their book The Way Schools Work hone in on the sociological theories that have developed over time to explain the ways in which schools socialize their students and the intentions, positive, and critiques. In their book, they compare two broad purposes for schooling, social transmission and social transformation in addition to the four well-established theories that fall under the aforementioned purposes functionalism, conflict theory, interpretivism, and critical theory. Although each theory holds relevancy and is still applied to the classroom today two theories, in particular, are considered more controversial and are contested on at a higher frequency in comparison to the others. Functionalism, a theory that has been embedded into the American educational system since the formation of the country and critical

If you look back in history the Asians worked as slaves, and laborers and became targets of discrimination by the Americans. However, through persistence and self-determination, they have succeeded in turning tables to become the most successful group in the American society. Hard work through education, along with good social and moral behavior is part of the Asian’s philosophy. Currently they are the highest income generators and rapid growing ethnic group in the United States (Pew Social & Demographic Trends, 2012). The report (Pew Social & Demographic Trends, 2012) further states that they tend to be more satisfied economically than the rest of the American population. Additionally, they also value wedlock, parenting, productiveness, and their career success. Their continuous economic and social success has been a result of various factors in American society.

According to Mrs. Weaver, and Mrs. Smith, schools are adjusted according to state and district assessment results by a grading card. The purpose of the North Carolina evaluation instrument is to allow education officials to be able to assess teacher abilities to teach by North Carolina standards. Furthermore, to provide the framework to determine how effective teachers are educating their students and allow teachers and education officials to step in and make adjustments if needed. Teachers can have the opportunity to monitor that own performance and make adjustments. Finally, she states that the, in a nutshell, the purpose of the evaluation process is to measure classroom performance and measure the teacher’s reflection basis for teacher improvement as well as a guide for teacher’s professional development. Professional development for teachers is a process in which they gradually obtain knowledge and skills to improve their teaching abilities. Mrs. Smith stated that she loves teaching and obtaining knowledge because graduation day is the best day in a student’s life.

The educational obstacles faced by high school students today are vast and varied. The ancient structure of education in this country has not changed in over a century and by no means reflects the nature of the work environment that high school students will face. Mechanization, globalization, technology and collaboration are the future, yet the high school students of today are trained in the same fashion as those at the turn of the century when they were preparing for factory work. Today’s students are tomorrows’ innovators and problem solvers and thus need to be educated in a manner that will allow them to take on these roles. In order for today’s high school students to

In a democratic education system, there is a balance of authority between the state, the parents, the individual, and the educators. While each group has their own claim to power over the education of children, there is still the question of who should have the most. This question often comes down to the state or the parents because they are the most complicated and influential. The primary goal of democratic education is to equip children with the knowledge and moral character needed to find success and contentment in life and society. Therefore, when education focuses on this goal, the state should have more power than the parents. The state must have more authority over education because they will equip children with the skills needed

As one of the building blocks to a successful career, education can, and should, be viewed as one of the most important experiences any person will undergo in his or her lifetime. It leads people down a path of discovery in order to help them establish what they want to pursue for the rest of their lives. However, without professional, experienced educators and effective teaching methods, students can never expect to reach their full potential. For this reason, legislatures from all countries should take steps to improve their schools and the techniques they utilize.