54) the student want to know what they will need to know for the test and this paradigm is frustrating because it support subsistence learning, i.e. learning just what you need to know and no more. Subsistence learning does not support or foster independent though and educators answering the questions the student ask with formal preparation material, especially very specialized material would seem to be ethically murky and frustrate creativity and independent learning. As Gallagher stresses in a work about what she terms readicide, where students and individuals are not out seeking new and novel ideas and are in fact not likely to read independently at all the problem is that the education system, "teaching to the test" is not responding to the need for individuals to develop independent thought (2010, p. 36). Though there are likely hundreds of other contributing factors as to why students today are just simply not reading independently, in part the delivery of instant entertainment and the information explosion of the internet, offering students countless other non-reading materials...
The problem is still evident as is the lessoning observable qualities of independent thought and development in many people. To some degree the exceptions are now given serious highlights as something advanced and amazing and yet it was not long ago that intelligence was much more closely aligned to innovative thinking. Now it seems we can what we want everyone to know and then they do not seek to know more, i.e. subsistence education. Teaching to the test is an example of how we use our limited time in the classroom to make the whole look better at the expense of the student. What really needs to happen is for our curriculum to align more with materials for testing in a way that makes the presentation creative and engaging and a reassertion of the value of independent though needs to be demanded in the classroom.
biggest decisions a professional educator decide area education concentrate order a successful career. This Rewarding Work Special education is one of the most challenging aspects of pedagogy for an instructor to pursue. Those who do so have the same task as that of instructors involved in more conventional aspects of education -- to stimulate and foster a lifelong appreciation of learning that yields tangible results in the immediate and distant
Description of the Classroom The observation took place in an eighth grade level social studies classroom consisting of twenty-one students from diverse backgrounds. The teacher is Latina. Not wanting to make any assumptions about ethnicity or culture, I asked the teacher about the demographics. The teacher stated that of the 20, 8 were female and 12 male. Three students were African-American, two were Vietnamese-American, two Indo-American, five students were Hispanic, two
education at Valencia College, where I am studying to be a respiratory therapist. I want to continue my education, with the hope of attending the University of Central Florida. The University of Central Florida does not offer a Bachelor of Science degree in respiratory therapy, but does offer a wide range of degrees related to the medical field. I intend to pursue a B.S. In Health-Sciences, Pre-Clinical undergraduate degree.
teaching profoundly mentally retarded people. The writer explores historic methods and also discusses current methods of teaching such students. There were 10 sources used to complete this paper. For the past four decades there have been many changes to the world of special education. Mentally retarded students used to be shuffled off to the classroom down the hall and kept away from the general population. If they were profoundly retarded
American Higher Education Higher Education is Wading in Deep Water in 2014 Is there anything to celebrate about higher education in the 21st century? What are the most troubling issues facing America's campuses that have emerged in particular over the past twenty years? These questions cry out for thoughtful, scholarly answers. On the one hand, there are crises related to university finances, student financial programs are bogged down by endless congressional haggling,
Professional Learning Community"? Professional learning communities: Article review DuFour, R. What is a 'professional learning community?' Educational Leadership, 2004. A popular idea in the field of education today is the need to develop a 'professional learning community' of educators to facilitate the goals of the institution. One of the 'big ideas' of a professional learning community is the responsibility for educators to come together and to determine how students really learn and
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