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    ways that got me to think for myself. I know that children who are in the same situation as me never got the help that they needed and honestly; without the help of my ELL teachers, I would have never become the person I am today. This is why the education system in America should be changed because, using the stories: The Secret to Raising Smart kids and Marita’s Bargain, I believe that hard work and more school days would benefit children from actually learning. In school, students rewarded by getting

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    educate our children. The first being to teach them enough to be a reliable labouring class to prepare them for the workforce. The second is to teach them the “meaning of life” with a more liberal education. Mark Phillips argued in his article, Why Should we Care About Vocational Education, that an education should not be focused solely around the academics but should also train students in hands on skills to prepare them for the workforce. He argued that cutting classes like shop and auto as well as

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    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

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    inside? Adolescents are being enrolled into the school systems around the globe everyday, but are they being served the true ‘goals’ of an education? We are being taught what other adult figures think that we need to know, but the relevance may not be as suitable as you think Every student can learn, just not on the same day in the same way. Getting an education from a school for some reason is considered the ‘key’ to success. The key to our life goals and dream jobs, but why? We are letting a letter

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    whether or not students are being taught the lessons necessary to succeed in everyday life. Not specifically talking about life after college, or just when they leave school at 3 o’clock every weekday afternoon. There needs to be a change in the education system; there needs to be more life lessons in the classroom in order to create a better future for the student.     Students of every grade level need to be educated on how to succeed not only outside of school, but for when they graduate their

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    Schools: Education or Training? Albert Einstein, a well-known theoretical physicist once said, “The only source of knowledge is experience.” Education is a process of learning every day. Human nature is to learn from what they comprehend around them and how they perceive different thoughts and ideas, they learn. People begin to learn from the day of birth and continue learning until the day they die. Knowledge is not obligated to a specific place like a classroom. Thomas Edison and William Shakespeare

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    practices of treating our educational system and students as school factories and warehouses. Treating students as such offers very little to these programs, relatively we have become small segments of out-patient inmate populations. More so, our education programs do suffer from a number of problems that limit the effectiveness of students, as well, does not reduce recidivism. To improve our public educational programs, I strongly suggest a blended learning organization that fosters structural reforms

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    veys their drive to acquire an education as well as their work ethic; therefore, this being a main reason why colleges should continue to use standardized testing and view their academic excellence. Also, academic excellence amongst students in high school levels is shifting into a change. This means that as there are becoming more and more advancements in the STEM programs. Which also means that this change results in changes to the curriculums of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and

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    “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

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    “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. Consequently, a balance between prioritizing and unwrapping students must be employed to best target

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