The Importance Of Education In Education

Ever since we were born we have received to some extent a subtle form of education. We slowly learn practical and technical skills that develop as we become functioning members of society. Without the presence of intellectual, moral, and social instruction people would be lost. With no hand to guide us through the dark we could remain there, ignorant and oblivious to anything and everything around us. If education is the key to a more intellectual and competitive society then why is it being attacked. Louisiana particularly has taken some heavy hits to their education programs yet state officials cry out for better results. This steady decline has driven a wedge between ideal and realistic education. If the instructors are only providing at best realistic education then what happens when that isn’t good enough or when the people we trust to guide us fail. This directly contradicts the root meaning of education; educere which means to lead out. If our instructors or teacher fail to guide us to a more elevated state of mind then what are we left with?

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.

Today’s education systems are deeply flawed. Schools attempt to conform the way students think, which then limits creativity and student’s ability to think for themselves. Schools are falling away from the true focus of education by replacing effective teaching with irrelevant assignments, only to overwork and severely stress the students. Since many students are focusing more on homework than real-life, they are losing precious time to explore passions and learn important life lessons. Schools today are not preparing students to be lifelong learners and successful participants in the real world at an adequate level.

Amelia is a fourth-grade student at Parkade Elementary School. Amelia is identified as a student with Other Health Impairment and a Speech Impairment. Amelia’s Other Health Impairment and secondary qualification of Sound System Disorder adversely impacts her education. Amelia’s educational performance is impacted in basic reading skills, math calculation skills, written expression skills, executive functioning skills, speech skills, adaptive behavior skills, and physical education skills. Amelia is currently 9 years old and according to her IEP she receives special education services in physical education, adaptive behavior skills, basic reading skills, executive functioning skills, math calculation skills, math problem solving skills, and written expression. Outside of special education, she receives related services in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech therapy. Amelia’s IEP states that she receives a total of 2100 minutes in her education setting. Amelia receives services during 648.75 of these minutes, 633.75 are spent in a special education setting.

Teachers analogous to every other human desire for integration, collaboration and kinship, yet, encounter confinement and segregation. Ingersoll stated in 2012, “although elementary and secondary teaching involves intensive interaction with youngsters, the work of teachers is done largely in isolation from colleagues. This isolation can be especially difficult for newcomers, who, upon accepting a position in a school, are frequently left to succeed or fail on their own within the confines of their classrooms—often likened to a “lost at sea” or “sink or swim” experience”.(http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/05/16/kappan_ingersoll.h31.html). Veteran teachers consistently promulgated to me early in my career that I needed to earn my stripes to acquire credibility in the education profession. Morosely, those words pushed me towards isolation rather than collaboration. Wong states, “ New teachers want more than a job. They want to experience success. They want to contribute to a group. They want to make a difference. The best induction programs provide connection because they are structured within learning communities where new and veteran teachers interact and treat each other with respect and are valued for their respective contributions”. (p. 47) Similar to students, teachers need their administration to provide a working environment that includes structure, safety, compassion and trust from the onset.

Being an educator at any level in the school system is very important for advancing the youth. Being a high school educator is extremely important in that many teachers at this level of education have to prepare the students for adulthood and the real world. Being an effective high school educator includes incorporating the multitude of the learning styles that the students have, along with the different styles of teaching and the most effective ways of delivering the material to the students, how to keep classroom control, and finally how to keep certain situations from escalating through assertive discipline.

Letter 8, question 2: Why should an educator know the concrete world where their students live? Why does Freire use the expressive term “concrete” when describing the environment where students live?

How can we make education better for kids that are struggling in school? This is a question that plagues teachers every year as they see a continuous intake of students that are unable to meet the educational standards set by the state. Students that fail to meet these requirements end up falling behind their peers. This creates a negative effect on the students’ self-esteem and ultimately influences their entire academic career. School administrations have acknowledged this problem and have implemented a system to identify these students, called Response to Interventions (RTI). This is a three tier system that breaks down the students results of test scores from core subjects. It then categorizes students by identifying learning and behavioral needs. Students are then placed into one of the following three tiers:

Education seems to be the only socially acceptable way to lower the world’s endlessly growing population. Other methods, such as financial incentives, have been debated but without any real seriousness to come up with working programs that won’t take advantage of people. Although it is important to see that these methods as opportunities to educate are becoming harder to come by. Education is only obtainable in places where there is some level of affluence and an established governmental foundation proficient of enforcing such a program. Ironically, the regions that are meant to be targeted are usually in a state that is inaccessible, impoverished, and economically fragile. So, since education is limited, and can only reach so far, other methods must be taken into consideration. An individual example of this would be to tax families that have more than two children. A business example would be to receive incentives such as tax cuts for installing solar panels on buildings.

In the classroom, teachers lack the training to effectively teach a foster child. To be able to promote educational stability for the child, it is paramount that the teacher is in communication with the foster parents. In an article by National Center Brief, the authors list the appropriate responsibilities of a teacher when caring for a foster child (7,8). The list includes having monthly meetings with the child’s foster parents, caseworkers, and principal to catch each other up on how the child is doing and how they can better plan the child’s educational future. One of the ways teachers can better aid children in the foster care system is by looking at their educational assessment prior to being in foster care.

Education has always been a cornerstone of American society. However, the current educational system of the US as many issues. First, most public schools hardly teach many important subjects such as personal finance, entrepreneurship, and coding (Gerber). Furthermore, many schools are required to teach students about pointless material such as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Qin Shihuangdi, and Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Second, in subjects such math and science, America lags behind most developed countries due to many teachers teaching a subject based off a particular standardized test such as the End of Course/Grade assessment (Chou). Therefore, the issues of low test scores in comparison to other developed nations and teaching students the wrong material in the American educational system need to be addressed.

The wise man once stated, “Teaching for nearly 40 years has allowed me to see how much our world has changed.” I had no idea how how far our world has come in just 40 years, until I asked my teacher, Mr. Gibson. Since 1978, Mr. Gibson has taught high school math. He attended college at Bemidji State University, receiving his four-year degree and eventually earned his masters. He is a very intelligent man, to say the least. Mr. Gibson explained how change has occurred in the school, how academics have been reshaped by technology, and how life in general has been revamped.

George Mombiot pulls few punches when talking about the modern educational system and its pitfalls. In Monbiot’s eyes it is a “defying dehumanising system” (2017, para 7) that inevitably leads to the end of creativity and natural, child-like curiosities; both are things Monbiot believes should be focused on and encouraged, a point that many people agree with, but few have acted on. There are schools and individuals making significant strides in changing the way curriculum is administered, but a large-scale implementation seems like a long way off. Bigger issues remain regarding the fundamentals of our current system that need to be addressed before we try and move on from it. We can not simply abandon the basics in favour of specialized education; we need to find a balance.

With more education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, children will be better prepared for challenges they will face in their lives. If kids are more educated in STEM, then they become outstanding citizens in their communities, and across their countries. Researchers have conducted many experiments about people interested and educated in STEM, and compared them to people not as intrigued or experienced. The data collected leads to numerous amounts of behavioral and intellectual skills, however, one stands out in particular that all citizens should be aware of. People who excel in STEM, those who make things, and those that are inspired by science, typically are better at problem solving, they have better social skills, and they are more likely to make a difference in the world.

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.