The Importance Of Education In Education

What is my life’s work? Well, I plan on dedicating my life to changing the lives of others. Spending every extra minute possible giving back to the community in some way. I feel as if I was made to strongly impact the lives of anyone I cross paths with. Becoming a teacher is one of the many ways I feel that I can achieve these goals. Teaching is so much more than just standing up in front of a classroom and spitting out a lesson plan day after day. Getting to know each individual student and their personal struggles is key to being a magnificent supportive teacher. It takes a strong minded individual to teach. Writing this paper has opened my mind to all the potential bad things that comes along with teaching. It is making me look deep inside and criticize if I really have what it takes to be a teacher. No one has ever asked me if there are any doubts I have had going into this field. I think I want to go into teaching in order to accomplish a better learning environment for students, particularly children with disabilities. I feel that children with disabilities are not getting enough support and encouragement they need to succeed. Every person with a disability is able to achieve something great with the right support systems set in place for them. With a teacher who pushes them to excel they will be living to their fullest potential. There are the many obstacles which make me doubt my capacity to become a teacher.

With an astounding 14% of students in the United States being eligible for special education under IDEA, there has been greater regulation of educational services and identification of legal rights than ever before. (National Center for Education Statistics) IDEA, or the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, was an amendment to the Education for All Handicapped Children Act that in essence changed the name of the law, but maintained the purpose of ensuring that all those with disabilities have the right to a free and appropriate public education. One of the many requirements of IDEA is the development of an IEP, or Individualized Education Program, for each student in special education. (Hallahan et al.) In light of the prevalence of special education in the United States, it is essential that all educators, not just special educators, be aware of the purpose, elements, and process of creating an IEP.

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.

The need for the educational system in Chicago, IL or in the entire United states of America is the ability to recruit, obtain, and retain effective and experienced teachers. Gone are the days where almost all of the teachers are actually invested in the education and success of our students. Grated a lot of the creativity was removed from the hands of our instructors because they practically have to teach standardized test. The focus have been taken off of children actually receiving and learning the life skills that they need as well as being enthused to learn because they have absolutely no interest in doing the same lesson over and over. Where are the lesson plans that allow for the student and the instructor to discuss world issues and news. The students have no place where they can express how they feel about the world going in around them. It's hard enough having to deal with life and it makes it even harder to have to hold it in.

As Franklin D. Roosevelt once put, “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.” There has been a noticeable change in the way empires ruled since the times when the “divine right” dominated society. When the French moved towards enlightenment thought, they had slowly dismantled the concept of “maintaining the status quo,” which cannot be sustained if an empowered mind is educated. Proper schooling has been instrumental for ensuring that useful, beneficial knowledge and skills are acquired by people who will, in turn, use these tools to form a progressive society. Without education, developing a strong sense of nationalism would be impossible as schooling allows patriotic beliefs to be transmitted from a state to its pupil. Similarly, education illuminates the past and promote nationalistic actions though developing an understanding of a great nation’s history. In the years before 1799, intellectual history has had its moments of eminence but it was lacking in many minds of the French. This push towards an educated mind had been undercut at every turn by the nobility, the church, and prominent political figures who utilised religion to “keep the common people occupied.” In the late 1790s’ France was still waging wars across the globe , the Directory abused its power to keep opposition at bay , and French pride was bleak. The stream of intellectual ideas, at the

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.

56% which averages out about to 42,168,580 people of the world's population that are bilingual know the language English, however, out of that percentage, only 15% of them spoke English as their first language (Nemeth, 2017). Most of those people didn’t learn a language at the younger age when it’s a lot more simple as your brain was still developing. However, still today they don’t have bilingual in your average younger aged classroom when it can be used as a learning tool. One of the solutions that can help fix this is to start teaching the most common languages at the younger age. To do this though you would have to also add in the requirement of having teachers at the younger group level be bilingual. This can take time though, so in the meantime to put things in motion signs and materials can start to be used to help introduce different languages to children. Another is that lots of countries today are becoming more advanced in the language department at the younger age and eventually United States citizens are going to fall behind. There is the reasons that dispute this, as with the changing of the curriculum, you also need to have parents on board with it as well. The reason they might be is that of the price for certain things. Mostly today children that have a type of language lesson in their life have parents that are either paying for a more expensive school or videos and tools to use at home. Meaning adding it to everyday life does run into the possibility of

The education system has been established in order for all members of the communities to receive a fair and equal education opportunity. However, there are many variables that take place and all students receive the same opportunities. The students who live in poor areas tend to struggle more in school because it carries on to the school grounds. Those schools seem to have more difficulty keeping students engaged and on track. For some reason, the students at a low performing school are usually minorities and the school environment is not considered a place for them to thrive. Many teachers may find it difficult to teach in those schools because there is a lot of chaos at times. Therefore, keeping competent teachers is not always possible and that negatively affects the students education as well. Trying to close the gap between low performing schools and those that do well is not an easy task. The effort of school administrators to bring programs to help low performing schools and educating those families who’s children are affected is important because it can help enhance their opportunity to succeed educationally.

I entered education with the intent to use my life to make a difference for my city, state and country. I was flagged early in my elementary education as student that was struggling academically. My parents were fortunate enough to be financially able to send me to a specialist working in a private school. I spent much of my time from grade three to eight in a special education setting where I made great strides academically. Upon entering high school I returned to a public high school, tested out of my IEP and entered the advanced track.

As a current educator, we need to be prepared to create plans, which will assist students, as well include our vision of working as an educator. These programs purported to “enhance students’ social competencies and behavior,” strengthen students’ emotional literacy”, “promote conflict resolution nan inter-group understanding,” “reduce anti-social behavior” and “promote [students’] positive relationships with their teachers and peers” (Seider, 2012, p. 219). A person can do many things, but a person needs to choose, are they going to be positive or negative choices. So, when we show children to see the importance of equality, they can have made decisions with diverse thoughts in their visions. After all, children have the rights to a valuable, educational, and most importantly, equality lessons, regardless of the community our students have or are exposed to. If we want to create schools where all students can be challenged and stimulated, and where their talents can be cultivated, we need a different paradigm to guide our schools (Blankstein, Noguera, & Kelly, 2016). Currently I teach students from ages three years old to five years old, in some cases we have students that are kindergarten age, they stay with us during the summer prior to school starting, as we are a year around preschool program. We teach the child's self\-help skills, writing skills, gross and fine motor skills, and language skills. Thought-out the day we have a daily schedule. Equity in the classroom to

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.

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.

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

feel trapped. Many times, the harsh rules in regards to retaking or having classes available can keep student from moving forward. The students in low performing schools are already facing many set backs just from attending a school with a low success rate. Funding extra programs can begin by offering breakfast to children to ensure they are fed. My son attended a school that did not offer breakfast for a whole year do to funding. I can only imagine this happens in other areas throughout the country as well. Providing the essentials for students well being and providing guidance for them can make a difference in their life. Students who are overwhelmed would benefit from counseling because “Having a sense of control is the fundamental element that helps diminish the effect of chronic and acute stress” (Jensen, 2013, pg. 29). Often times, students who live in poverty may feel that they have no control over their situation. Providing them with the guidance and tools to succeed will help them realize they have the control to change their life and reach academic success.

Education has often been regarded as a source of freedom for America’s Black students. Maxims such as “Education is the key to success” and “Education is the passport to the future” all support the idea that with education comes freedom. But at times, the universal American K-12 education doesn’t grant these forms of freedom for its Black and Brown students. This is primarily due to the fact that minority students are not being taught the importance of education in the pursuit of intellectual, economic, and professional freedom. Black students, especially in low-income communities, are still struggling to develop the skills necessary to succeed in society. The education system needs to better prepare its Black students by developing