The Importance Of Life Skills Class

After viewing the district's website, it has came to my attention there is a vacant Life Skills Classroom Instructional Assistant position for next school year. I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg in 2007 with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Mathematics. I received my Elementary K – 6 Certification from Saint Vincent College in December of 2008. To further my education, I received my Mid-Level Mathematics 7-9 Certification in December of 2009. I would like to apply for the Life Skills Classroom Instructional Assistant position.

One web source, "Student Potential Instruction," proposes the problem that not all students are reaching their highest potential in school. The specific argument of the site is that school technology and training is inadequate, and that some students do not receive sufficient challenges or motivation. Students can begin to feel inferior

Sex education should be implemented at an early age beginning at the middle school level. A discussion of contraception, the risks of diseases, the risk of becoming an unwed teen parent and the disadvantages of not having an education will help decrease the number of teen pregnancies with future generations. Parents should not feel threatened of having their children learning about sex in class. Parents should feel empowered; it will allow their children opportunities to feel they are able to discuss future topics of sex at home to help promote

A curriculum that addresses the needs of the students that can assist them later in life. I do not have any suggestion on how to stop teenage intercourse other than a program sort of like “scared straight” the program would require students to meet those having to live with the sexual transmitted disease that they caught along with having to spend the week hearing a new born cry. Maybe that will get them to think twice. At the rate we are going our future is dim, socially we will have problems arise regarding lack of funding as well as a decrease in high school graduation rate and we will remain in first place in teenage birth rate unless something changes. This affects us economically because who will be taking care of those who do not graduate and have to live off government assistance. I am not saying all individuals who do not graduate end up on assistance I am simply saying most job now require a high school diploma. Economically what are we willing to budge on to accomplish the proper funding for education? This is a political issue that needs to be addressed. Change is not something that happens overnight but we have to start

In today’s society students aren’t pushed in high school to pursue their full potential, which makes students think they don’t need to put hard work into school making them lazy. The outcome of this is bad grades and upset parents making them believe they aren’t smart and that is why they are getting the grades they are receiving. In actuality these students aren’t being pushed and the teachers aren’t tapping into their talents to show them the full academic potential they have.

The main courses that we are taught throughout elementary and high school are English, Math, Science, and Social Studies. While those subjects are important, not everyone will use those studies throughout their lifetime, whereas if they taught subjects like balancing a checkbook, how to fill out job applications and write a resume, how to do an interview, first aid, and so many other skills, everyone would carry that with them and find that information useful after they get out of high school.

Preparing high school students for college is every parent and teachers goal but sometimes that goal is hard to achieve. Students are not getting a proper education now-a-days and they do not realize that it is going to hurt them after they graduate. A study says, “That composite score dropped to 20.9 among high school students in 2013, the lowest in eight years” (Adams, 2013). That is a very low average and it is because what students are learning in high school just isn’t sticking with them through college. After students graduate they start taking harder classes, some have to start paying their own bills, and so many other changes they are not ready for. It is a big jump to go from high school to college and I think schools can do a better job of preparing students. It is their experience and education in high school that is going to help them in college. If they are not ready they are going to struggle which will result in some not so good outcomes such as having low grades or even worse dropping out. I do not believe that high school education has prepared students for college because there are many useless classes, it is more about memorizing than learning, and students drop out in a year or less because of the workload.

The American Education System is not meeting the needs of current students. If anything, the system is not building a sturdy foundation for the future working class. Schools have existed for many years and through the years they have worked differently. However, every school’s main purpose was to educate students to be efficacious later in life. Modern day schools are corrupting students with added pressure, making fewer accommodations for special education students, and take away individualism. Along with those are problems comes numerous others. The students of modern times are the people of our future and the future does not look too bright with the current American Education System.

There should be an average STEM education taught in school, but other classes that can help students, such as social skills, business skills, credit, and personal finance. More specifically, there needs to be classes that will prepare students for their future outside of school. Also, elementary, middle, and high school buildings should be kept together. The older students could serve as a role model to the younger students, encouraging them to continue being, or to be persistent in school.

In America, the system of education has one of the greatest influences on the people of the country. From the common workers of the U.S.A, to the teachers, the entrepreneurs, and even to the parents of the students, everybody is impacted by our current education system. Most importantly, the children playing the role of the students are impacted the most from this. At the end of the day, these children are the ones receiving this experience. After all, it is the education that a person receives that shapes their future. It is the morals they grow up with, and most importantly, their educational experience at school. Sadly, this “educational experience” does not affect the students of the generation in a positive way. There are many flaws with

First, with young students this subject may be a little uncomfortable to talk about, but without learning about sexuality extensively many students may be unaware of the hazards of unprotected sex. Being open with our children and explaining the natures of sex will help them make the best decisions for themselves without scaring our students by focusing on the dangers. Second, some may say that our sexual education course is fine how it is, but there always room for improvement. A questionnaire was presented to graduates from Ontario Canada. They were asked what they think should be mandatory concerning sexual education in high school. Many agreed that talking about sexual decision making, communication about sex, relationships and more should be mandatory throughout sexual education creating a better understanding of safe sex. (Meaney 112). Why isn’t this in the United States curriculum? Whether teachers or parents like it or not, every teen is curious and full of questions. Being prepared for that is the best solution to protect our youth from sexual transmitted disease and pregnancy. Last, you may know someone who has had a child in their teenage years and question how hard could it be? They could do it, why can’t you? Talking to

Teachers who do not teach the material right or puts in effort to help the student, leads to the students not taking school seriously. It programs in their mind that they are not important and that if the teacher does not know how to teach the subject right, how are they supposed to understand it. Since high schoolers are the next generation to be running the economy and world, lack of knowledge from the teachers is a problem. It is not only the teachers that are lacking the resources to teach the knowledge they know, but where it is taught at too. The facilities where these students are taught are not updated to the best quality to where it can be either too hot or cold in the classroom; leading students tend to lose focus. Even with the facilities not being up to modern style, it tends to have the students become distracted because their surroundings, in which outdated classrooms can bore or provide less interest for students to learn or teachers to

After only seventeen years of living, students are sat down and told that they need to figure out what they are going to do for the rest of their lives. If they are lucky they will not be one of the many kids who falls through the cracks of the American education system. School has become far too stressful for the average teenager. Students now a days are finding school more and more difficult due to learning disabilities, over pilling amounts of homework and tests, and large classroom sizes.

If schools had sex education classes and made them mandatory then they would actually learn about sex and sexuality like they are suppose to. “Sex education teaches them about their bodies, informs them of the risks of having sex, and teaches them about safe sex” (Blick). Learning about sex in school would be less uncomfortable for the student, because it would feel like a normal class they have to take, instead of a one on one talk with their parents, who makes it worse than it is since they do not know how to talk about it. Letting the school teach about sex and sexuality would take the pressure off of the parents, and they wouldn’t have to struggle thinking of something to tell their child. Sex education in school would be a sure way to be certain that students learn about everything they need to know.

Notably, school requires classes that need to be complete in order to fulfill the general education standards. While I think some classes such as English and math are essential, I do not think classes that are deemed useful in the future are necessary. From personal experience, a required course that I needed to take for high school graduation was Algebra 2. However, I’m aware that other schools does not Algebra 2 and plus it can be taken in college. In addition, it is unlikely that someone is going to use any form of algebra in his or her life unless they have a profession that incorporates it such as being a scientist or an engineer. Another course that can be said for the same reason are foreign language class. In some states, such as California, a foreign language like Spanish would be useful since a significant of the population speaks it. In all honesty, I think that foreign language classes should be optional rather than mandatory.